A Comparison

This is my concept picture of the splashback wall before we started building.

And this is the finished wall.

Its practically finished!

Office

 

  

  

Exercise space and tv room

  

  

Flower Garden

  

Lounge

  

  

Front porch with Hopscotch!

  

My new chair - 39th wedding anniversary present from Terry

 

Row by Row finished and in its new home

I don't think I ever showed you pictures of the finished Row by Row. Here it is, in the place it was designed for. The club members who each did a row of this quilt were asked to use a particular picture that I gave them for inspiration for colours and subject. I used the same picture for the colour scheme for our new rooms. And the size of the quilt was decided by the size of this wall space.

 

You can see in the corner of the room, a preview of the tiles that are being laid today. We laid some of them out last night to see if we still liked them. We did, good job. 

Here is another view out of the new folding doors with Teacup sitting there hopefully:

And another view of the splashback - now with shelves in use:

 

And upstairs in the new office the floor has been plastered in preparation for industrial vinyl to be laid on Thursday - which means we can move in this weekend - wow, at long last! You can see in the far corner where my desk will be I have used some of these to put up photos of my grandchildren and their parents. On the red wall at the entrance to the office I have photos of my niece and her children.

Downstairs we have different colours

 

  

  

  

  

 

The painters did come

but not on the 12th, they arrived on the 29th and we now have colour on the walls upstairs:

and the glass man arrived too so we now have a glass splashback in the kitchen! The photo behind the splashback is one Terry took at the Bason Botanic Gardens.

Temporary Steps

Our new dining room has large opening bifold doors and we are still in the process of deciding whether we want steps down to a paved area or a deck at floor level. In the meantime we wanted some temporary steps which Terry has built out of scrap timber. They are very solid and extremely stable. What's the betting they last a few years? I wouldn't be surprised if they even got a coat of paint sometime...

 

  

  

 

The painters will come on the 12th January

and the flooring will be last of all but they will have to work around us, we've moved in. And I am very very tired! So are the two electricians who worked 10.5 hrs on Saturday to get the groundfloor electrics all installed... it looks like a lighting showroom now!

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

I have a new camera

The scoffolding has gone:

 
     

and the maple wood has been installed in the kitchen: