Day 91 - Front Door Delivered

I am happy to report that Day 91 had several steps forward in the construction progress:

A) Our FRONT DOOR was delivered – thank you Corinthian Doors

Just as we turned up to check out the day's progress – there was the truck delivering the door… Its crazy how exciting delivery trucks become on a journey of much waiting… 

It was actually way back in November last year that we made all our colour selections etc -  a four hour meeting that is now a bit of a blur...  

So when we saw the front door design today 
- we had a moment of “is this really what we chose???"

James was convinced we had horizontal glass lines instead of squares.. While I only vaguely remember saying I didn’t like the door with the horizontal lines…  (so obviously I had won - hehe)

 I did check our paperwork later and it was the correct door we had apparently chosen last November… 

(photo - wskoenig.blogspot.com

To digress for a moment...

My dream door is actually a huge double entry door ~ something probably second hand,
made out of timber,
and with a story attached...
 a entryway door full of character and texture...

hmmm... not unlike this photo (right) of a double door in a little town called San Miguel in Mexico - apparently you have to walk through this door get to the bullfights - how cool is that!!!...   

or this wonderful door I photographed in the little Italian town of Asissi several years ago...

Sneak peak from Day 131 :)))

But this house had a limited budget for its construction – our first ever attempt at building - so it didn’t allow for that kind of fanciful inclusions… Even when we tried to include a larger front door – it caused too many problems (impacting the space for the portico and not positive on the budget)…  so we let go of our preference for a large front door... (does it really matter for this home?!) 

Instead had a small upgrade to a door with the four glass inserts.  My future plan is to maybe do something arty with the four spaces (eg. subtle letters of ‘H’, ‘O‘, ‘M’, ‘E ‘  in the glass squares)…  ...we will see…

I'm also intending to do something to make the side glass more opaque (does anyone know of creative ideas? I've heard you can use patterned tissue paper for this?!!!)

The kitchen was also installed on Day 91... I will share more in the next post...

Thanks for stopping by...

Day 84 to Day 89 - Cornices Plus

Catch Up Post #17 -

Day 84 gave us CORNICES... woo hoo :)
 

This is the main bathroom ceiling with bulkhead over the bath... (We basically made use of every space in the house that we could - thus the bathroom and the media room go right out to the eaves, creating the bulkheads)

 

...hmm, can u spot it?

 

the BEDROOMS now have CORNICES :)

Day 86 has more cornices... and deliveries...

The newly corniced hallway...                                and delivered skirting boards :)

Day 86 is also the  

Day of the

Freaky Fingers!!!!!  (just for some fun! :)

We see doors delivered (stored in the Study nook for now).

We also see some pipes connected to the rainwater tank (the 15,000 litre tank that we chose -like most here - to put 'underground' to make the most of the space... For those who haven't read earlier posts about it - this tank is part of the estate's requirement for fire safety plan).

Day 89 saw waterproofing in the wet areas...   

          the ensuite shower....                                              and the laundry area...

 

 

we also saw
    another notable
        delivery...

Such as... bags 

and 

bags 

of...

RENDER!!!!!!

And to conclude this post - I will leave you with the very lovely long lines of the...  skirting boards... 

...oh and of course my "arty" efforts in Black and White...

(I am dreaming of creating an artpiece simply made up of all the textures and lines from our building adventure - what do you think?)

Cheers :)))

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 :)

Thanks for stopping by :) I appreciate your visit :)

Comments very welcome....

Day 60 - a ROOF on top!

Catch Up Post #6 - 
Day 60 (Mon 28th June) -
A nice new colourbond ROOF is happening!!!

Sooo exciting to see the roof sheets go on... The colourbond roof colour is called "Evening Haze".



This photo is mr 7 in the door way of "his room"... 

The feeling of the space just keeps evolving as elements of the house are added / constructed... The wall frames made it a 3D experience.  Now, when standing in the various rooms/areas, the roof provides a lid above you...

WOW.... the Journey of building a house is definitely different to the experience of simply buying a new one... sorry to state the obvious lol :) just trying to put into words how this process feels... waiting... watching... evolving... anticipation growing... learning a great deal as we go...

I am having lots of moments that make me think of the TV advert for colourbond roofing (shown in QLD sometime in the past 24 months) .  The main character of the advert is seen standing outside in his underwear because he dashed out to pick up his newspaper and got distracted gazing admiringly up at his colourbond roof... hehe - I may not be out in only my underwear but I am definitely distracted and excited by the significant event of our ROOF going on!!!!! Yipppeeeeeeeee :))))))))))

Gutters and Roof Battons

Catch Up Post #4 - 

Day 55 (Wed 23rd June) 

saw work on the roof's GUTTERS and TRIM.

Trim on the Portico (entry)...

Guttering and trim put on the edges all around the house :)))))  

This was mentioned in an earlier quick post I did (as I got a little behind on sharing all the progress).

Our bathtub also turned up, and was put into the pantry to wait patiently to be put into place :)

Around Day 57 (Fri 25rd June) we saw quite a bit of RAINY WEATHER - making the house construction very wet work for the carpenters.

The guys were amazing and just kept on working - we are so grateful that the build is now continuing. We spent sooo much time waiting due to wet weather at the beginning... what a welcome relief it is to see construction progress in spite of the rain! Thanks to the great tradesmen!

 These pics shows the roof battons (the horizontal lines) now on the roof surface. 

Front left side view.

Back view.

 

The roof bracing...                    The roof scaffolding...

And the Front Portico Post is put into place :)))))

Good stuff :)