In the deep mid-winter

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Nearly ready to shut the house up for the mid-winter celebrations.




Before that, a challenge for the creatively inclined.

We have an irregular four-sided gap in the east and west bedroom wall adjacent to the double height sun-space, that's formed where the big roof beams and the vertical and diagonal posts meet.

There's a photo in with this entry..

We could just fill the space with plasterboard.

We can't just leave a gap, as Building Control is not fond of features which allow small children to fall from great heights.

We are thinking of windows possibly with a stained glass inset - ( as we can't afford to do both as full stained glass). What else is feasible?

I'm home for a long weekend to see if my back recovers. I think I knackered it fitting the plasterboard - this house is starting to hurt.
A productive 3 days which helps, but if any of you know where I can trade in one rather aged (and knackered) body for a much younger model drop me an e-mail.

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Photos

Insulation
The big white boards the other side of the stud wall are the insulating panels for the floor

Plasterboard in situ
This was probably the most awkward bit of plasterboard to fit but it looks really good! The house is starting to look like a house that might one day be lived in

The gap (1)
This shows the shape of the gap quite well, I'll look for somthing that shows it in context

The other gap
There's a gap in one of the walls of each of the upstairs bedrooms

Finished veluxes
The big veluxes have been lined with wood and look nice. You might just be able to see the gap in the bedroom wall to the edge of the photo

and this is what it used to look like
Just for comparison - this is the big veluxes a couple of months ago