Being all arty with cedar shingles!
I didn't even need to be right next to it, it was wafting in the air and you get a whiff of it the moment you open the patio doors.The cedar shingles for the new jungle hut has arrived and was piled on the top patio ready to be installed in the following days. I followed the scent to where it was obviously coming from and found myself deeply inhaling the scent of roof tiles - now that's something I bet you won't hear too often! And even better, a couple of builders did the same after me. There we were, a trio of people sniffing roof tiles!
But cedar wood also meant cedar oil and some of it were leaching from the shingles on to the patio. It doesn't matter at this point as the patio will be repaved anyway but this is something we'll have to keep in mind for the future. The initial plan is to use cedar slats to screen the existing fences in this area next year, as part of this patio's looming makeover. The stone paving must go on first before the screening and the last thing we want is for oil to leach out on to the porous. So if we go for this material we'll have to store them somewhere else.
The new jungle hut is shaping up very nicely. The builders are not always good at following design brief faithfully but so far so good, it looks like, for a change it is heading towards there a hundred percent. Full credits to Gaz here, he made all of the sketches and did all of the redesigning and all I did was to give him full faith to do so. I'll have lots of input with the furniture, decor, and color scheme though but that will have to wait till next year.
Before they go on the roof they might as well serve a temporary purpose - as a platform whiche helped me tidy up this Nolina longifolia
Ahh, the sweet scent of cedar!
Mark :-)
