Our birdroom is 22 foot long, 18 foot wide and 12 foot high, it is brick in construction, with double glazed doors and windows, it has been very well insulated, there is also electricity, this was all here when we brought the house, it was a work shop. So all the hard work had been done, when I first saw the building I could not believe it was true, was I that lucky.
It required clearing out and painting, then I had the hard work of getting it ready for my birds, this was done by building a full length flight. I had to put 3 tube lighting and plug’s everywhere, next the air filters, which we have 3. Then I built the breeding cages (36), once these were done, I had about 6 feet left on the back wall, which I boxed off and put a door on, this was to become the kitchen, more about later. Once the breeding cages were done I built the half flight, this is used for the young birds after they have come out of the nursery cages and under the flight I use for storage, next I found that the adult birds was eating the inner block work in their flight. So I had to remove them and tile the flight with bathroom wall tiles, then I did the same to the small half flight. When I got the wall tiles, I took it that there was 10 in a box so I got 22, when I got home I found that here was 44 in a box, so now I had  880 tiles, far to many for just the flights, so later I tiled most of the other walls.

Then I worked on the kitchen, this is something that I have never had before, so I was over the moon I could have one in this birdroom, I put in a sink unit, with a single sink and some wall cupboards, I only had cold water at first, so I had one normal tap, then I got an inline water filter, so this become my second tap, later on I got a water heater, so I could have hot water. Whilst we was moving in, we did not have room for our dishwasher, so I made room for it in this kitchen, this only took minutes to fit in but took the wife an age to see that I had done it. We had a fridge in the house but the wife wanted a taller one so the old one was fitted the other side of the sink unit. Next I put on the work top and tiled around the about 4 tiles high, up to the wall cupboards that I had put up. Now I had room beside the cupboards for the microwave and hospital cage, on the far side wall I put up my computer, this only has my bird records on but at times it is a life saver and saves me so much time.
Beside the front of the large flight I put in some base units which was in the workshop when I moved in, I put on new work tops and cut them to size, these have become very handy, one of the last thing I made was the seed holder which I had seen at another breeders place.
After a while I got some floor tiles, so I tiled all the floor apart for the kitchen area, I just did not have the money to do it all.