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...

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Day 78 to Day 83 - Build my home!

Catch Up Post #16 -

Day 78 - Day 83 (Fri 16th - Wed 21st July) -
not too much to say but some pics to show...

First - a "sweeping view" of the living area / dining room
(standing at side of kitchen area)

 Next - here are several other photos
to give the current perspective of the build...

 ~ looking out through the garage door ~

 ~ the alfresco area ~ 

 ~ the alfresco roof ~

 ~looking inside through the alfresco doors ~

~ power point hole at the alfresco door ~

~ looking at the kitchen area ~ 
(standing in the living room space) ~

~ looking into one of the kids bedrooms ~

 ~ wall of the main bedroom ~  
See the 2 wires sticking out for the 2 x feature wall lights (to be above the bed)???  They are just above white plaster join - well they worry me - they need to be in just the right spot so it doesn't look off centre... hmmm... I hope we get it looking alright...

 ~ looking out a window in the media room  ~

 ~ the media room electrical point / holes ~
(I know, I know - thrilling stuff :)))

 
 ~ the main bedroom light switch wires / hole  ~
(looking out of the bedroom to the kitchen space)

 ~ power point holes in the study nook  ~

 ~ the Laundry area awaiting the basin / shelving ~

  ~ water pooling ~
(can you see the alfresco post?)

       ~ more water pooling ~                                        ~ and reflecting the trees ~

Anyway, there you go...

Due to this being our record of the building journey - even the less exciting elements like photos of power point holes, are documented in these posts...
 In spite of this, I hope something in each post may still be of interest for those of you reading this!?...  

Oh well, at the very least, it is a real depiction of building - where you can easily find yourself getting ridiculously excited over the smallest bits of progress - simply because it is PROGRESS.... moving forward IS GOOD!!!!  
(Waiting, waiting & waiting will do this to you...)


If you are getting impatient to see more interesting photos... I'm with you!!!!


Bring on the "hugely exciting steps" just so I can share them :)
(and so we move in soon as possible :)

Cheers :)

Day 76 & 77 - BRICKS BRICKS BRICKS

Catch Up Post #15 -

Day 76 (Wed 14th July) - BRICKWORK ongoing...

Day 77 (Thurs 15th July) - BRICKWORK completed :)))

So for ease I will simply add photo collection/slideshow of said brickwork appearing... (cue imaginary grunge music to accompany hehe)

"BRICKwork"

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So this stage of house construction is very exciting.

 The several (older hardworking) guys who did the
brick work were great, working very quickly
(to our newbie eyes)...  

Before we knew it - the house was no longer
wearing its "blue wrap dress" of insulation...
but is more solidly walled with BRICKS :)))))

I like SOLID - feels so much more like a real house now.
We have bricks... bricks... bricks... bricks....awesome!!! 

 

 

Showing off our brick walls :))))

...Oh give me a home among the gum trees.....

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