Our roof is now complete as you can see the rails have been removed, the carpenter has started and the brickie has also started laying bricks, the inside has seen the plaster go up with only the cornices to go. Next on the agenda is plastering finishes on Monday, carpenter starts to clad and the brickie should be finished by the end of the week. The kitchen gets delivered on Tuesday and the other cabinets get delivered Wednesday. All going very well at the moment, touch wood (the carpenter can touch as much wood as he likes, the more he touches the closer we are to finishing). We can now see the rooms inside from a size perspective and can start to look at furnishings.
The biggest difference in this last week has been the plastering, we could only take pictures through the windows but they came up like we were inside, all the cornices are on the floor cut to length and ready to go up. This photo is looking across the lounge room towards the kitchen dining room. The whole in the wall to the left is through to the rumpus room (we are getting a wooden blind to go in this cavity). The doorway ahead leads to the kids bedrooms and Babysitters room and the back wall area is for the kitchen and the black pipe coming up out of the ground is for our island bench.
Looking through the dining room window straight to the front door, all the cornice's are on the floor ion this photo cut and ready to go up. We have a feature door going on the pantry door that is frosted glass with stained wood (same style of doors on the master bedroom).
This photo shows a couple of different things, left side door is to the passage ways and bedrooms, the light that can be seen is in Bayley's room, the cavity with the bulkhead is where the kitchen cupboards and stove go, the door straight ahead is the pantry. this photo was taken through the dining room french door.
Another picture taken through the window, the door on the left is the ensuite and the wir is on the right, there is also a bulk head in the master that has been discussed in earlier blogs.You can see they used different plaster in the ensuite for wet area's.
The Carpenter has been, getting his timbers in place ready for the cladding to be put in place. The next row of bricks are turned on there side and are put in longways, similar to under windows in normal brick houses, The carpenter will fit the cladding first with the brickie to brick up to the cladding which should give a better finish (less gaps)
The eaves have also been started from the carpenter, this picture is just in front of bayley's bedroom window.
The front of our house is coming together, the brick work comes up the window with cladding going up the rest of the way. Our front door gets painted the same as the window frames.
A view from the rear fence of our house, looking at the roof now that the roof rail is now down and the roof tiles are now complete, you can also see the plaster up in the garage. All the bricks have been broken down off the pallets and spread around the house.
Looking through the dining room window straight to the front door, all the cornice's are on the floor ion this photo cut and ready to go up. We have a feature door going on the pantry door that is frosted glass with stained wood (same style of doors on the master bedroom).
This photo shows a couple of different things, left side door is to the passage ways and bedrooms, the light that can be seen is in Bayley's room, the cavity with the bulkhead is where the kitchen cupboards and stove go, the door straight ahead is the pantry. this photo was taken through the dining room french door.
Another picture taken through the window, the door on the left is the ensuite and the wir is on the right, there is also a bulk head in the master that has been discussed in earlier blogs.You can see they used different plaster in the ensuite for wet area's.
The Carpenter has been, getting his timbers in place ready for the cladding to be put in place. The next row of bricks are turned on there side and are put in longways, similar to under windows in normal brick houses, The carpenter will fit the cladding first with the brickie to brick up to the cladding which should give a better finish (less gaps)
The eaves have also been started from the carpenter, this picture is just in front of bayley's bedroom window.
The front of our house is coming together, the brick work comes up the window with cladding going up the rest of the way. Our front door gets painted the same as the window frames.
A view from the rear fence of our house, looking at the roof now that the roof rail is now down and the roof tiles are now complete, you can also see the plaster up in the garage. All the bricks have been broken down off the pallets and spread around the house.
Things seem to have shaped up nicely there, inside and out. Getting the roof up is quite a relief, yeah? When you get a big part of home like that ready, you begin to feel that the project is nearing the finish line. It's got a physical form now, more or less, and all that's left is to steadily work on that aspect until you've got yourselves a dream home.
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