After the trees were felled

Here you can see the house from above with out the trees. This was August 2008. We were in no hurry to start work and wanted to get to know the house and really think deeply about how we wanted it to be laid out. We wanted to move the bathroom upstairs to make a bigger kitchen and needed to have a good space for the dogs and all our coats and boots. We had an architect working on plans and spent ages thinking about it. Many of our friends and family had helpful suggestions too.