Progress Has Been Slow!!!

Front garden begins

Hedging along either side of driveway

Blinds - Bonded Roller

Bonded rollers again, sunscreen also on narrow window

Meals area with bonded and sunscreen rollers

Posts in, ready for deck to be done

Different angle of posts/deck area

Long time, no post!!!

I thought I'd wait until more progress had been made before I did another post but now realise I may never do another post if that is the case.

We have accomplished some things so, this will have to be it for now.

Window coverings are done.

Found these at "Blinds Online". The idea was to cut costs by measuring and installing ourselves. This worked with only one thing I would do differently next time. Unfortunately, the width of my blinds fell short by several mm's due to a misunderstanding of width measurements. Most probably wouldn't notice but I do because I know. Not to worry now, it's done and I am very happy with the finished results overall. I have an idea to fix the problem for some of the blinds, but that will be in the future.

Posts for decking have been done.

Unfortunately or fortunately, we have a carpenter friend who is going to help but he has been fully booked since before christmas and doesn't look to be free anytime soon. He assures us it will happen in the next month or so. If we are lucky it will be ready for next summer!

The garden has begun!!! Finally. This is my passion but was put on hold because of summer. Last week we had fill delivered, hired a mini bobcat on the weekend and began to form the groundwork for what will be the landscape. More fill is needed and this I hope will arrive soon. Now, I'm just waiting for rain so everything can settle and I can begin to plant and start what is going to be a very big job.

Happening very soon will be a new shed and path for the dead side of the house.

Also, to be done is retaining walls and fences completed, but that is a whole other post.

Handover and Almost In !

Bamboo flooring begins in the meals area.

Bamboo floor in meals area completed.
Underlay for carpet to the right of photo.

Driveway formwork and base in preparation
for concrete pour.

Kitchen with bamboo floor. We love it,
it has come up really well.

Carpet in study. Not a great photo for
true colour. 'Eureka' is a purple/brown colour or
aubergine. We love this also. So far we have been
so pleased with how our flooring choices have come
together.

Driveway up close, exposed aggregate.

An almost full view of the driveway.

It is very new and still has a bit of finishing

off to go.

A shot of the bamboo floor, looking towards

the front door.

What a beautiful blue sky! The driveway again,

the next day.

A shot from the top of the stairs, with

carpet and bamboo floor in view.

Looking down stairs from the top.

Looking up the stairs from the bottom,

just in case you couldn't work that out.

Well there it is! Handover went very well.

Most of the post handover stuff has been completed. Not bad considering we only had handover on the 10th of August.

Last week was full on!

Handover Monday, bamboo floor Tuesday, Wednesday, Carpet Thursday, Friday and then finished Tuesday just gone. Concreting was also done on Thursday and finished Tuesday.

Now all we need to do is move! This should happen in the very near future. Not looking forward to packing/unpacking but can't wait to get into the garden.

I am hoping to keep posting on any progress but this may take a while, things will probably move a bit slower now.

Relle.