You're a brick, you really are...

Had confirmation today that Tim @ RRA has negotiated a change of cladding material for the ground floor of the house.

The original plan was to clad in local stone, but this proved to be VERY expensive thing to do and anyway it wasn't my first choice.

The stone cladding would have looked something like this:

The brick version (with railings instead of solid walls), would look something like: