Housing for new chickens

Hello Aunt Lizzie and welcome to the forum and the wacky world of henaholics!  We are all friendly here and I'm sure you'll get plenty of opinions about coops. 

I personally have a wooden coop but that is because it was donated and I couldn't afford a new one.  I understand that eglu cubes are great for function but not so hot on looks.  They are also not very generous on run sizes.  Wooden coops are more prone to red mite and can be more difficult to keep clean.  However they can look lovely.

You could also type "eglu cube" in the search box in the top right-hand corner and you'll find some information.  In the meantime Good Luck 

look at the doodle houses they are an english company and they are easy to use.
as good as the eglu at red mite prevention.

Here you go Auntlizzie!

http://www.doodlehouse.co.uk/chicken_coops

The only snag with the doodlehouse is that they don't have a run, so you would have to buy or make one (they are cute though). You can buy run extensions for the eglu cube but they work out at quite a bit of money.
I see you only have 2 chickens so the 2 metre run would be fine. I have an eglu classic in blue which came with a run and this was fine for a trio of bantams full time or large fowl that have access to a garden part time.
The omlet cube is expensive (I like the red ones) but they are practical, easy to clean, and will last a very long time just needing water and squirt of washing up liquid every time you clean - no wood preservative, no poultry shield, no diatom etc

but just think w.w. no red mite with plastic - of which I have got in my wooden coops at the moment and it's only March - heaven knows what it will be like in high summer.

Recycling plastic isn't cheap to produce - there are so many different chemical properties in lots of different plastics that these often cannot be mixed together. It then has to be cleaned, dried, granulated (machinery for this is extremely expensive), then graded and  additives added to make it into a specific type of plastic IE - bags, drain pipes, sewer pipes etc all of which are different. Then moulded, blown, pressed etc. Not cheap but helping to save the earths resources (sorry I work in the recycling industry - albeit metal recycling as we make and repair metal reprocessing machinery).

look forward to seeing it - I remember you posting photos of your home made coop when you did them a few years ago