<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/archives/312/25-dec-2011_0808-balcony" rel="attachment wp-att-314"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-314" title="25 Dec 2011_0808 balcony" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/25-Dec-2011_0808-balcony-300x248.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="248" /></a>We met with the housebuilders on Monday. I say housebuilder but in fact they manufacture the house frame and we have to get the foundations, services, and the second and final fix done ourselves. This doesn't mean we are literally going to do this ourselves, it means we will be employing someone to do it.

Tom at Potton, the frame makers, was very helpful. We took along plans of our design and some living requirements and he helped us to develop our ideas and after 3 hours we had agreed a final plan, with a roof structure that would make an aesthetic statement as well as give us cover over the balcony off the master bedroom and over the front entrance. We came away very excited and felt quite proud of this endeavour. We will be devastated if this doesn't come to fruition. Now we wait whilst Potton produce the first draft of our plan and our partners in crime are seeing the designers over the next two weeks.