Let there be light! 20 April, 2010
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The electricians finished today. The fusebox has been moved to make way for the new front door and, most importantly, there is now light in the extension!
Note also the beautiful cornices (that were put up by men on stilts), door-jambs and skirtings. There are doors too.
All this means that we’re ready for the painting and floor sanding. That should take another week-ish, and then we move into the back half so Chris The Builder can start on the front. Woohoo!
Spoke too soon… 11 April, 2010
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We now have a significant floor-bump in the middle of the dining room, and a nascent one in Polendino’s room as well.
I’m trying not to stress about it.
A little bump 10 April, 2010
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The floorboards were installed straight from the supplier – instead of leaving them to adjust to the site for a couple of weeks first. We knew it was a risk – sometimes they can expand, and sometimes they can shrink. Ours have been fine, except for one little spot in the doorway of Boo’s room.
When they first started bulging, Chris the Builder thought we’d be able to get away with just sanding them down. But last night we came home to discover that they’d popped right up.
Chris is going to get under there and have a looksee and work out the best way to deal with it.
Walls and ceilings 10 April, 2010
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A bunch of photos of all the new rooms and the grampa flat (with the exception of the grampa flat’s main room, which I forgot to get a shot of).
Dining room. It’s huge – 4.5m wide and 7m long.
This is going to be a fantastic room – a combined studio and guest room with one wall of storage, and a big desk the full width of the windows. It’s 4.1m x 2.8m.
Boo’s bedroom. Bigger than it looks – 4.8m x 2.1m.
Polendino’s bedroom – the same shape and size as Boo’s.
The grampa flat.
The grampa flat bathroom - 1.4m x 3.8m. The shower will be the full width of the end of the room, and the loo will sit right under the window.
The grampa flat bedroom - 2.7m x 3.4m.
Foundations 5 January, 2010
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While we were holidaying in Melbourne last week, the moles came and visited our house.
Thankfully, our builder (Chris) was there to document the damage with his mobile phone and send us the pictures.
This is the back of the house:
And this is the granpa flat:
And so it begins… 28 February, 2009
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We had a draftsman over this morning to talk about our plans to extend the house and build a granny flat (or, in this case, a grandpa flat). He’ll get back to us on Monday, and then it’s all systems go.
The draftsman (Phil) thinks we might be able to get approval in 10 days once the plans are done, using some new guidelines/regulations that come into force today.
Our plans are to add another bedroom, study and dining room to the back of the house; rearrange the front of the house to give us a bigger master bedroom and family room; change Polendino’s current bedroom into a bathroom (with bath!) and build a one-bedroom cottage at the end of the yard for Wing’s Dad.
We’ll all move into the front of the house while the back bit’s done, and then move into that while the front bit’s done. Then we can fitout the new bathroom and re-do the kitchen.
Phew… I’m exhausted just writing about it.
So take this as a heads-up that the next 9 – 12 months will see lots of activity on this blog as we get stuck into this major project!
‘Dino’s room 19 November, 2007
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Before:
And after:
Hamble’s room 19 November, 2007
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Before:
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Booboo’s room 19 November, 2007
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Before:
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The blue-ish room 14 October, 2007
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So far, I want to have these things in my room:
- A white rocking chair at the end of my bed. A standing lamp would also be excellent to read by (hint-hint, Mum)
- My small light in an old water bottle
- A photo-frame
- New white shelves from Ikea
- A wardrobe (also white)
- My skateboard and rollerblades
- A magnetic whiteboard
‘Course, some of these I’m just fantasising about, like the whiteboard and photoframe, but the rest is very doable.
