A pretty picture

For a break from the grey, timber and frames of many of the recent posts, as well as the Wintry conditions outside, here is a reason why we are making this move:

There's a pipe over here and a cable over there

The walls are soon to be all covered up inside so the busy work of putting important bits and pieces in and through them has been in progress. There are pipes to showers, taps and toilets, a grey water pipe from the laundry outside, pipes to take the hydronic heating upstairs and even a pipe for a plumbed in fridge with water dispenser, which our fridge does not have, but hey, that's called future proofing. Then there's wires for lights, fans, powerpoints, and cabling for data and sound all over the place . It's not quite to the Grand Designs smart house level, but it should be a warm, well-watered, well-lit and musical place to live!

Sayonara scaffold

So close to being finished out front. Just a leetle more paint, a porch and a proper front door...then a fence, a garden, a driveway...

Going up and looking out

Here's a little peek upstairs. In the top photo you are standing in the master bedroom looking across the entry void/stairwell and out to the G & T deck. If you kind of squint your eyes and turn your head sideways in the bottom one, you might get a glimpse of a You Yang.

These photos are actually slightly dated. In real time both the plumber and electrician have done their rough-ins meaning the walls are an apparently impressive tangle of pipes & cables. I'm just waiting on the builder to make a visit and get some photos!

The screen

A trip to Warrnambool for the weekend now includes a requisite sidetrip to the house on the way home...just to have a look...only, if we're going there we might as well take some bathroom floor tile samples, and perhaps some carpet would make sense too to match colours. Oh, and do you think we could touch base with the electrician to confirm some powerpoint locations? And the bobcat driver? Hmmm, at least staying until evening got us some beautiful light. And have a look at this screen!!

If you look closely you will notice that we were short only the very last strip of timber at the top of the screen, so it's not quite finished. And neither is the North side of the deck...or a small fence out the front...and a vertical screen in front of the studio. Hmmm, another delivery of timber and some more staining still to go. Poppa?...Pappa?....Grandma?......hello?

Here is the North side. You will have to use your imagination to add the grapevine covered pergola extending out from both sides of the kitchen/meals.

P.S. the aforementioned stainers would have you know there is 1.2 km of timber in that screen so far.

Putting in some pipes

One of the best things about this process is all the 'of course' moments when you encounter all the jobs that need to be done, in a particular order, so as to build a functioning house. The plumbers were in last week doing the reasonably important job of placing pipes and fitting outlets in the walls before the plaster goes on....so we get, you know, water for showers, baths, cooking, laundry and stuff. I hope they didn't miss any.

Putting the older genereration to work

First it was the young folk, now we've had the older crew on board staining the timber for the screen and giving the site a general tidy up. Thanks Papa, Poppa & Grandma!