In the nick of time before Christmas we got off the ground with filled foundations. We missed the slab being laid by a couple of days due to bad weather and possible a bit of is communication but in the end it should mean a positive start with all action from Jan 12.
Founds 20ish December
This image shows dining room and lounge, bedroom in far corner. The pile of rubbish in the foreground will become deck that adjoins old house. The far pile of wood just visible is the old shed which now awaits ceremonial burning in Autumn.
Old and new house joined by lights for Christmas
The anticipation is that some time before June we will be in the long anticipated ‘new bit’. The time line for the build ends with a hand over date of April 29th with the all important watermark “Subject to Change”! It is unlikely Tom will be holding his 17th birthday party there but maybe it will be ready for my 50th? – or maybe I will have my 50th when it is ready? Whatever we are out of the ground and those who have done it before say things will move pretty fast from here until they slow again for interior detailing.
Before Christmas a friend got the old dining room converted for Tom ’s bedroom to start the new school year in. This will mean condensing living spaces for a while… Thanks to the team at Portabuild we have temporarily aquired a portable building for drums and otherwise hanging out which is to the boys what the old living rooms will be when we move.
The break has been spent waging junk wars. Today may well see the long dreamed of shed workshop come to fruition – it is to be a long dreamt of a masterpiece of classification. Murray also put up a shade sale over the deck of the old house . Thanks to the efficiency of a mega hardware store (whose heiress is dear to Tom’s heart! ) it was effected in one afternoon – we went to buy mouldings
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More soon on kitchen design.
