As more sandstone arrives at the site of our new house, a few reflections on it in general.

As you can see, the sandstone comes in multiple different colours, or perhaps just multiple shades of brown, from nearly white to very deep brown.

This was one of the choices we had to make at the quarry: any colour?  Dark? Light?  In the end we asked for anything except the really dark-coloured blocks.

A lot more arrived today.

The decisions aren’t just about colour, though.  We also had to decide upon the face (“rock face”, or “Hydrosplit”) and whether we had “Quoins”, which are the corner pieces.  If you have these (as we will have) they are the corner pieces which stand out a little, alternating short and long sides as you go up or down the corners.

These are the quoins, waiting to be used.

The walls have just begun to go up, and Michael Edwards is worried about how much we like the sandstone.

We are actually very happy with it.

Here is the first view that we will get about what the house will look like when we finally move in.

There is still an awful long way to go, though.