Portal

The door between the kitchen and the salle has been removed. Now there is just the empty archway, which looks much bigger than it did when it was filled with a door and a hardboard surround painted with bunches of grapes.

The arch had been partly faced with those odd wall-bricks, which stuck out into the salle. Previous-owner planned to continue covering the stone walls with wall-bricks and plaster, which I thought was a shame (this is what it looks like now). James-the-Plasterer trimmed the bricks level with the door-frame when he did the pointing, so the brick-edges need covering. There is a gap between the tiled floor of the kitchen and the bamboo floor of the salle; I'd thought of extending the bamboo, but perhaps extending the tiles would be better.

Now that the first floor has been walled off and insulated, the kitchen fire can warm the salle as well. At the moment it's not quite cold enough to light the fire, and the sun is shining through all three west-facing windows. From the sofa I can see so much golden light. Beautiful. *happy sigh*