Day 72 - Walls take shape

Catch Up Post #13 - 
Day 72 (Sat 10th July) - Plastering continues :)

 

I reakon that you can tell what stage a build is up to by looking in the skip out the front... 

Well this is our skip at the moment ...

What do you think?  

Yes MORE plastering...

The build is getting another step closer to completion

and beginning to feel like a proper enclosed house...

We have the enclosed HALLWAY :)

The bedrooms, robes and ceilings have become solid...

 Here is the bathroom... 

(The purple is a layer to protect the bath from damage)

The laundry has always been an interesting space in this build... It got tucked away at the back of the garage as we tried to make every inch of our house count... Now that it is enclosed by the plaster I am spending lots of time just standing in it, figuring out how I will set it up...  I want to be clever with my set up... 

I believe that I CAN be organised - positive thinking yay!

(I assume the green plaster-board is for the wet areas)

Here are two different views of our niche #2... (the one at the end of the hallway - see previous post)

I like :) 

how about you?

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To finish this post - here is the few pics from Day 73 (Sunday 11th July) 

Due to being a sunday, there are no changes to report... except for this day being 

...the LAST DAY we said the kids could 

SCOOTER through the house...

Now that the walls have plaster we don't want to risk a scooter crash and plaster damage... much to the kids sadness... They have had such a ball wizzing around through the rooms :)

I am so glad that the kids are having this journey of building with us... they are experiencing the house evolving with each stage and have the opportunity to really OWN this new home together - as a family we are starting fresh in this new place... Sooo grateful :)

DAY 71 - More Plaster and first row of BRICKS :)

Catch Up Post #12 - 
Day 71 (Friday 9th July) - More Plaster-boards are going up :)

This is one of the bedroom ceilings

with the fan/light wire poking through...

 

 

This is looking down the hallway to the front door. We have one side with walls and one without...

(The frame without plaster is the back kitchen wall)

We have a 'niche' next to the door of the main bedroom... 

It's at the end of the hallway so I am looking forward to choosing what to display in this feature spot... hmmm, will have to wait and see...

Looking through the bedroom window... 

The kids LOVE running through the house... I suppose its how they show their excitement... (there's sooo much room compared to the small 'sardine can' unit we are renting... so why not run around crazy?!!!)

Which brings me to our next bit of exciting news!!!

The bricks have started :))))

Finally....  

...happy dance... 

Blue walls have been fun... 

but BRICKS are the ones...we want... 

yes, very bad rhyming but typed with a big smile :)))))))

Bring on the bricks!

Day 70 - PLASTERBOARDS and dirt...

Catch Up Post #11 - 
Day 70 (Thurs 8th July) - Its PLASTERBOARD time :)

This is the ceiling of the Media Room being put into place...

The laundry door was delivered...

A huge pile of dirt also arrived at the front of the house (to be used for bricking maybe?)

The kids were getting into mischief in the various dirt mountains so we went for a walk through the estates walking paths...

or rather, for a scooter...

As we went through the nature reserve, their goal was to find interesting items for me to photograph... such fun!!!

We also names the unusual tree trunks eg. "the monster alien crocodile tree"... (Don't you love kids' imaginations) 

Here are the two pumpkins (minus jumpers and a pair of shoes - guess who has to carry them?!) finally making it back to the street... we were all thoroughly exercised.... :)))

To finish Day 70 - Here is one fav pic from our afternoon's adventure..

Day 68 - TV Aerial on top

Catch Up Post #10 - 
Day 68 (Tues 6th July) -We have a TV AERIAL.... 

On top of our beautiful colourbond roof... ahem... excuse me while I gaze at it....

Here is the view from the side...

What else?

This is the garage.

 This is looking at the back kitchen wall. Its difficult to see in this but the plumbing pipes have been added. We asked for a extra pipe to plumb in our water to fridge (for the cold water/ice etc).

They have taken some soil (from the back) and spread it out down along the right side of the house. I assume it was to fix the problem of the buildup of water that had pooled there.

Not so lucky are these bricks - sitting in the mud patiently - around the back of the house... 

The bricks are sitting patiently...
(yes, bricks are better at being patient than I am :P)

hmmm... patience, patience...

(we are so close to completion and yet so far)

For me, this building journey really is a mental game... of keeping myself immersed in phrases, such as: 

Keep Calm

All is well

Soon we will be in the house,
looking back at this time of waiting

and lastly this little beauty (below) to remind me to
not just endure this process, but enjoy it and the amazing adventure it is...

With that I need to say a HUGE thank you to my man... with whom I spend much time laughing...
He can somehow manage to make me smile even when I am in the blackest mood or overwhelmed with stress... He is sooo much fun...
He makes me LAUGH :))))

I love u James!

DAY 64 - Windows, Wiring and Wonder!!!

Catch Up Post #9 - 
Day 64 (Friday 2nd July) - Much Progress to report...

The Meter Box is now attached to the wall...

WINDOWS are all in place...  

We like windows...

Peak-a-boo :)))

It feels different to look out from the rooms through a window...  fun!

The window glass is all solar tinted to assist in the energy efficiency. The only glass that didn't get the tint is the stacker doors and living room windows. This was due to the fact that the stacker doors are under the alfresco (away from direct sun) and when open, the doors are stacked back together - 3 layers thick and the tint would then become very dark...  

We really want these stacker doors to connect to the outside, so we were concerned if they were tinted it would obstruct the view/detract from the openess...  Then the living room windows are right next to the stacker doors so they needed the same glass look for consistency in this main living space (our family 'hub')... 

 

 We also discovered that during the construction, the windows/door glass is covered with a protective coating called 'Goop'... thus the sticker on the front window...  

It means the glass have a skin-like opaque coating for the moment... Looking forward to seeing through them clearly when construction is over...

The Gas Points are now in place...  

These are the 3 points for the large gas bottles for our house gas supply.

Its very interesting to see the plumbing lines weaving over the outside walls - it will soon be all under the layer of brick.

Here is my man, posing at the loo window hehe :)

We also have Gas Point in the alfresco.  This particular gas point (for the many BBQs we intend to have) was taken out at one stage due to cost cutting. We thought we were being clever and eliminating the need for a Gas Supply...  but soon realised that we would need Gas anyway for the Hot Water System... silly us... so the alfresco gas point went back into the plan as soon as we could manage it...

A friend also pointed out to us that it could be used for those Gas Outdoor Heaters - I really really like that idea... I LOVE those gas heaters that mean you can still entertain outside even in cold weather... I can't wait to use our alfresco to its full potential - all year around...

The other development is the ELECTRICAL WIRING...

We met with the Electrician around one and half weeks earlier and chose the location points for switches and light fittings etc... He went around the house frame and wrote locations and info in crayon on the cement ground... (Amazingly the writing stays there for later on when the guys come in to do the work)

 

So it was a little bit of a thrill for my hubby to see the media room cables were done...

 

We can't afford a theatre system now but included a HDMI cable for a future projector... and cords for the speakers etc...

This way its all in place for a couple of years time when we might be able to afford the 'home theatre' to be added in.   This future planning idea makes my man happy :))) and me too :)))

What else to show for Day 64???

Well, here is a few more pics of where things are at... 

 

And here is a pic of the kitchen plumbing (to go into the island bench)...

The view looking out from inside the media room. The two frames are for the cavity slider doors to the media room. Where my daughter is scootering is the dining room.

This is the side view (standing on our neighbours land). 

On the left is the nature reserve and to the right is the front going out to the street.

There is still a bit of water around from occasional wet days...

... and the bricks are sitting waiting for their turn...  

...soon soon brickies...

Well that was a very long post... It's because I have sooo many photos to choose from - I probably post less than 50% of all the photos I take on site...

Extra cheers to those who make it to the bottom here :)

Way to perservere!!! haha :)

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