Hero father-in-law returns for the little boy's room

When we bought the house, our sons room looked like this (this pic might have been from our first visit perhaps)

As per our daughters room, the room was gutted, the lathe & plaster stripped out, modern insulation fitted and a new window too.

The blue plasterboard is sound deadening plasterboard - it's between the two kids rooms...

At this point the old electric light was still in action....

We'd hardly got the plasterers out of there, when the father-in-law tore around the M25 and did this:

Huge progress - all the lights in, the plug sockets working, walls painted, woodwork done.

Carpet fitter will be in later this week.

Another brick in the wall...

It's taken a little while, but we're getting around to having a front wall. We left the house like this last time.

The gates and the posts still there.  We thought the posts might support a new set of gates.

We also thought that the gates (both the small one to the left of the below pic and the main 5 bar gate) were in line with the house's front wall.

Turns out neither thing was true. A morning with a chainsaw and a digger revealed the truth.

It all left the house a bit open at the front, so we had to sort out a new  fence and gate quickly!

Today we're like this. Steve Colgate of Maidstone has been busy again.

Moving toward the front., That gap is where the garden gate is going to be. That is, where the gate that leads to the front door will be. 

The gate will be 6 feet at its highest point, but arched, so the piers are about that high.

We wanted the wall not to be too elaborate, but not boring either, hence the dog teeth at the top. You might also be able to make out the vertical basketweave panels in the straight wall along the front of the house.

The front garden's going to need a bit of work! Does highlight how long the wall is though.

Nice Deck!

Continuing where we left off last time...

The frame was built out. There are few noggins - the decking itself provides the bracing. Where there are some, it's about going round obstacles (like the ginko tree in the right of the below pic) or where the oak sleeper 'foundations' are out of square.

The frame is more or less complete in this pic. You can see the various devices to set the corners square and to ensure the surrounds' height is equal to the thickness of the deck boards. 

This above pic is actually more or less the same pic taken from a little further back to show my temporary saw bench. The little evolution saw is pretty good at straight cuts, and with a bit of persistence and a few days later we got to this:

....which is more or less finished. There are a couple of bits of the sort of trellis effect to do, but it's usuable (see the muddy footprints!). Since this pic, I've added a beer bottle opener to one of the upright posts....