IT’S always nice when friends come to visit, but it’s quite silly of me not to take photos of them! Mark comes by almost every week, and last week we welcomed Collette over for a couple of hours so she could see the house. She…
LIKE any good girlfriend, I made sure Brendan had something to come home to on his birthday. Something half decent, at least. It didn’t help that I was sick as a dog AND had to look after the new puppy we just picked up, but…
IN our last post, Brendan was texturing our feature wall in anticipation of the flooring going down. See how proud he is here? Unfortunately, when the flooring installers came along, they warned us that a couple of areas of our slab needed to be levelled…
SANTA came early this year, with our Pre-handover Inspection scheduled in bright and early yesterday. A little sleepy and hungover from the night before, we met with Mike, our new supervisor from Celebration Homes at the house for a final walk through before they make…
I’M so jealous it’s not funny! Brendan had the pleasure of taking a tour of the now-locked house while I was away in England. On Monday 4 April, he visited the site with our building supervisor Lee and got to see the kitchen and other…
WE’VE been locked out! No more wandering through the house with Sky hopping through windows – the doors are in and the locks are on: We couldn’t enter the house to see what else has been done but we did find that all the melamine…
NOT much has gone on to the uninitiated but we know the guys putting up the Gyprock and cornices had some fun times this past week putting our ceilings up: In fact, these calculations pretty much sum it up:
WE’RE up to our eyeballs in bricks this week, or what the builders like to call “at plate high”. Every time we visit the site, Brendan and I come to the full realisation of what we have gotten ourselves into and we swallow hard as…
THE brickies promised us our hallway and bedrooms this week so of course we had to go up and have a peek. Better yet, half our front elevation is complete too, most of the garage is up, and all that’s left to do really is…