Le Cornillet
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Bedrooms


Main Bedroom

Once all the downstairs work was completed and the central heating lines laid we could go on to the final phase of the inside of the house, the open area upstairs.
One of our earliest tasks had been to insulate and plaster board the entire area and now the time came to build the partition walls and complete the construction.
It was a comparatively simple job but had to be done in strict sequence because of the handling of sheets of plaster board up the staircase. We had added a cunning false beam to the stairwell and this provided the support for scaffolding planks that enabled the work to proceed on the last sections of wall.
In the bedroom itself we kept the main beams exposed and we used a glazed door to provide light to the corridor and office area. We had a small spare window left by the previous owner and we put it into the corridor wall for more light and to break up the line of the wall.
The En Suite Bathroom

Well, shower room actually. With an awkward shape caused by the sloping roof, the chimney breast and the beams we had problems fitting in the usual wardrobes, chest of drawers, etc so we used the most awkward part of the room for a walk-in cupboard on one side and a shower room and loo on the other.
The result is very satisfactory and gives a surprising amount of space especially with the angled entrance door (Liz’s brilliant idea!). Drainage is via a pumped unit and 40mm pipe to the main pipework behind the downstairs bathroom.
The Guest Bedroom
Above the kitchen at the west end of the house was an unfloored room with a narrow doorway through the 3-foot thick wall from the rest of the upstairs. We floored this out and insulated the sloping roof under plasterboard to give us our first proper bedroom. This was finished the day before our first visitor, Cathy from Oklahoma, arrived and so she was the first occupant. It was still unplastered, bare floored and unheated but it was a bedroom.
After Cathy left we finished the room and occupied it ourselves for a year until the rest of the house was done but in terms of its being the first, airiest and prettiest room, it’s still our favourite.
The Single Bedroom

The last room was the smallest of the three bedrooms and great fun to build. It is L-shaped and has a full set of the main roof beams in it. We used a tiny alcove below the sloping roof in the area above the stairs to house a chest of drawers and there is a secondary window inside the room above the stairwell that provides “borrowed” light to the stairs.