Now we're getting somewhere... part 1

The last few weeks have felt a little like work on the house wasn't really going anywhere (ie having to describe exactly what the finished product would look like to everyone who came to visit because NOTHING even vaguely resembled what it would look like). There was also a minor hiccup today with some of the kitchen cupboards (a trip to IKEA was in order to pick up two missing screws and another trip will be in order tomorrow to take back a cupboard that we discovered today was cracked) but otherwise today there was a small glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.

The floors in the bedrooms were the first things to start to take shape.


This is the floor in Ali's room just after sanding...



The floor in the boy's room after the first coat.

... and later today some posts appeared out the kitchen window in readiness for some slats to make a fence down the side (pavers still need to be cleaned and replaced but the drainage is in and the posts are ready to go).



There was also some kitchen area prep done and the cupboards put together and the air con went in today too. More business tomorrow: another trip to IKEA, hopefully a kitchen more or less completed, sanding doors and architraves and perhaps even some gardening.....

Stay tuned!

"And there was evening and there was morning"...

Busy weekends

The last two weekends have been FLAT OUT!

Last weekend we pulled out the pavers under the kitchen window in readyness for some drainage

This is what it looked like before...

... several hours and a few creative swear words later (who is Richard Cranium anyway??), this is the result. Note the bouganvillia root - one of many we had to pull up or cut off.

Some 'before pics' for where the drainage and paving is to go...

This weekend, more drainage work and today the kitchen was taken out!

Before today...

... after today

Tiles attached directly to gyprock... hmmmm....

In between pulling up pavers, shovelling dirt and clay, pulling out a kitchen, there were quotes for blinds, attempts to chase up the benchtop for the kitchen and get the lock on the front door fixed... "busy, so busy, so very much to do..." but we're getting there...

"And there was evening and there was morning"...