Bricks and wrapping...

All wrapped in white...


Windows in place (bedroom on left - main bathroom on the right with th obscure glass)


Looking from the rear yard (window on left is a bedroom, door in the middle is the laundry door and to the right is the living room)


Looking in through the front door


The garage


Looking across the front of the house


Looking into the living area of the house - across the side yard






Our Red Gum bricks

Minor Update...

Bryan stopped by the build-site on his way to work and has called in with the following report (see how hungry I am for details!!)

1. The windows have been put in - and yes our front windows are correct (now... the SS tells me that the company that pre-fabs the timber framing did stuff up the window measurements but these sections were redone and all is fixed);
2. We've been wrapped - I'm waiting for the photos to see what colour we are now;
3. The bricks have arrived - Bryan was a bit concerned that they weren't the right colour but we have rung the SS and both he and the supplier have confirmed that they are right - we'll have to wait and see how it pans out when the brickie starts tomorrow.

Bryan has taken photos but we'll have to wait until tonight for those. In the meantime, here are our external colours. I don't have an image of how they'll all look together apart from what's in my head and so far I haven't worked out how to download that - the USB cable just isn't doing it...

This is our facade (flipped so that the garage is on the left)

Our bricks - Red Gum by Austral with natural (grey) rolled mortar joints. Not our favourite, but this is about the only one we liked from the standard range and I really couldn't see the point in paying extra $$ for bricks!! (plenty of other things we'd rather spend our money on...)

Roof tiles - Barramundi in the Tudor Style from Monier (CSR Roofing)

Garage door - sectional lift with remote - in this style but in a dark charcoal colour - called monument (below)Colorbond Monument will be used for garage doors, gutters and fascias)


Window Frames - black
(it's just black - you don't need a picture of that surely!! :) )

Front door - Paperbark

Nothing to report, just waiting for my next visit/update...

I'm itching to see what progress has been made on our house since Friday. The SS said last week that the bricklayer was due to start this week so I'm hoping to see some brickwork when I get to drop in tomorrow afternoon on the way home from work.

I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing living 30mins away from our building site... If we were closer I'd be able to drop in more often and see the progress, but then I'd probably get even more obsessed with the build and be there everyday!! As it is I get to go there once a week on my way home from Melbourne and maybe again on the weekend (usually if dog training is on, I can get Bryan to do the training and I can duck our for a sticky beak...). That really is enough - for a person with patience (which is not me in case you haven't guessed).

Pictures tomorrow I hope!!!

A skeleton of a house.

20th March 2009

The roof trusses are on...


The crows approve...


Looking out of the kitchen window...


I'm not sure what this pipe is but it's sticking up from the floor of one of the bedrooms - I think I remember it having electrical wires - there's another one on the other side of the same room.

More frame and roof trusses

19th March 2009.
The Roof trusses are going up (they're sitting up there on top ready to be installed) and the windows have been delivered...

Looking from across the street

Looking through the garage to the study and then the main bedroom on the other side.


The living room and backyard - complete with windows.




The front door - or where it will go at least.

Looking into the main bedroom. We're not sure what's happening with these windows. The shape here is not what's on our plans - nor those of the site supervisor. He's checking up on this and will let us know what happened tomorrow.




The back yard - not big but big enough. The side yard is about the same width but longer.


The bedroom side of the house.

We've been framed!!

18th March 2009
We have a frame...
(pictures taken on my phone in diminishing light)

A slab!!!

14th March 2009
I don't know when it happened - I was hoping for pics of the slab in progress, but sometime between Wednesday and Saturday the slab was poured and the formwork removed.

I was talking with Mum about how a slab can seem small until it has wall on it - ours looked big! At least it looked big to me as it seemed to take up so much of our block!





Our front porch...


That little block is where the hot water system will sit...


Idon't know what this little divit is but I took a photo anyway...