First Floor Rising ....

Inca Lilies in the Studio Courtyard

Views from the First Floor

View South back onto the Old Farmstead

View to the East

View to the West

Central View from the Main Bedroom

Marsh Woundwort at the Base of the Hedgerows

Used in herbal medicine as a antiseptic and antispasmodic since the sixteenth century, the leaves were also used to help staunch bleeding and healing wounds.

Wildflowers of Ireland

This plant mainly differs from Hedge Woundwort in its colouring and also in that is has only a very faint aroma. The beautiful, individual flowers are pale pinkish purple or mauve, and are slightly smaller (12-15mm) than its cousin.  It is an elegant, robust and erect plant with oblong, short-stalked or unstalkedleaves.  It flowers from June to September, attracting bees into its tube shaped corolla.  Mainly found in the vicinity of damp arable land, its fruits are nutlets.  This is a native plant and belongs to the family Lamiaceae.

This plant was first identified by me in Gibletstown, Co Wexford in 2006 and was photographed at that time.

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Scaffolding for the first floor goes up today ....

Scaffolding around the Living Room

Positioning the living room corner window Posi joists

View from top of the stair well back to the old buildings

View from the wildflower meadow

View to the South

August Skies

The Plans

The builders' holidays are over and work will be started on the upper level of the house this week.

Here are the plans....

Technical Drawings done by Margaret Feeney Creative Building Design,

Roscrea, Co Tipperary

Yarrow Flowering in the Wildflower Meadow

First Floor Posi-Joists

Posi-joists combine the lightness of timber with the strength of web steel. Services can be run through the web zone.

Posi Joist Hanger fixed to timber packer in steel  I-beam for stair void

Air tightness membrane placed behind the hanger and wrapped around the hanger where it sits on the inner wall

View from the Kitchen back to the Glazed Link

View from the Utility Room back to the Old Farmstead

Happy August Bank Holiday!

A Visitor to the Studio

A Small Tortoise Butterfly visited the studio while I was working on drawings

for house and basked in a shaft of sunlight from the roof lights

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Irish Butteflies