December 08

TASHA

TASHA
RUMPUS
PANTRY
OFFICE
LOUNGE
KITCHEN
ENSUITE
KITCHEN DINING
DINING
DECK
DECK
DECK
BEX
BATHROOM

Moved in...

It has been quite a journey. From the dark past as we discovered our renovation plans were merely a fantasy, through the shed experience, mind changing and the odd tricky tradesman. But, we are now there, well almost... and at the moment almost feels like good enough!


View from the dining room through the kitchen. Please ignore the cardboard boxes on the right.
Standing at the back door looking past the kitchen and into the dining room (with and without the flash below).

Rach' and Tash working away. It's roast lamb for dinner and Tash and built a couple of lemon cakes.
From the dining room, over the low wall and into the lounge. Still pretty sparse, but the couches are a pretty good start.

The study. Still much organising to do here. There will be another desk on the right, shelves, whiteboard etc.
Down the hall way to the bedrooms and the bathroom. Bathroom on left (door off still, plumber coming on Monday to finish it off) and the girls rooms off the end of the hall.
Down the other hallway to the front door (which has only been opened once!). We will eventually take the plastic off.
Becca's room, probably the most finished of all the bedrooms.

From the lounge, looking back to the dining room and the kitchen.

And the oven, with roast lamb and lemon cake!

July has been busy!

The outside. Since this picture, well not a lot has changed. In fact has really only just got a bit messier in the last couple of days.

The block wall (to the right of this picture) has now had a lick of paint.


Standing in the dining room (back to the windows) looking toward the kitchen. Since the pic, there are now wall cabinets in the kitchen.


Down the hall, toward the front door. The flooring is in the hallway, dining room and kitchen.

Natasha room, quiet relief from the Tea that is painted everywhere. To be honest, I think it is brilliant, really cool to have something that isn't Tea... no we like Tea!



Dining room in foreground, kitchen in background.

Weatherboards, insulation and gib board

Much has happened since the last update.

This is the back door - the ranchslider into the rumpus room has since gone it. The splash of paint by the back door is the colour we will probably use on the block.

The big wall. All the windows are in on this wall. The snorkle thing hanging down is the vent from the oven extractor fan thingy.

A few dramas with the windows...
This is the street side - looks remarkably similar to the old house... makes you wonder!
The master bedroom. Dude in the foreground is Mike. BTW - this ranchslider is the wrong size, like I said, a few dramas with the windows!

The lounge looking from the dining room. Insulation everywhere - should be nice and warm and nice and quiet. For the uninitiated, the blue board is bracing plasterboard.

7 June - all the outside walls are up...

Matey in the Study. The last piece of floor having just got the resource consent for the extra metre. Matey has been here since the beginning, doing the work in the shed first and then demo'ing the house. All the good news comes from Matey!



All the roofs are up. In the forefront of this picture is the veranda roof over the front door.



A view from the front door looking in - just a blur of sticks really.

BTW - the chickens are growing up

Here is a little pic of the chicks in the cathedral we call a house. Funny really, there hatched about the time the house started, so they really have grown up with it. The race is to see which stops growing first... I suspect the chickens.

Block wall done - roof is ready to roll

With all the frames up now we spend a lot of time finding little tweaks - add a little wall here, build a false ceiling there, change this door to that door... better to do it now than later we figure.



With the big wall up you can really get a feel for the height. And now we just need to figure out amazing ways to fill up the walls - ideas anyone???