The frame started going up today. Harkaway delivered it to site this morning – apparently the street was closed off to do it (hope the neighbours weren’t too inconvenienced). It should be completed by the end of the week.
Last week after the flooring had been laid, the frame was marked up. We had a bit of fun pretending to knock on the new door, then walk around the house. With all the lines on the floor, it suddenly looked more real.
Things are finally moving along! After so many years working on this we have finally started and the start of our build is finally in site. The date for demolition has been set and preparations are under way to be ready, the building contract has been signed and the start date set for that as well. The little man is getting a bit upset about the house and his favourite trees being knocked down, so not sure if we will take him to watch it happen. But hopefully once he sees the new house coming together he’ll start getting excited.
The Harkaway frame has been ordered, so hopefully we won’t have too much of a delay with the Christmas shutdown and the frame and roof will go up pretty quickly.
It’s been a while since posts, but things are moving along. We have our final plans, including energy rating, from Harkaway; the Council has approved our demolition; we have engaged our engineer; we’ve made most of the decisions on the interior fit out and have started contacting builders. Phew!
We also finished painting our garage, but didn’t like the colour scheme for the house, so we still need to figure that out. We like the creamy/white colour, but the blue is a bit much. We also want to stick with just two colours.
The decorative features in the living areas, hallway and master bedroom will be period style – cornices, skirting boards, light switches, ceiling roses, picture hooks, etc. The rest is going modern and simple.
We have chosen all our bathroom fittings. While trawling bathroom places we discovered Builders Bargains who had a great range of bathroom items for our family bathroom. The ensuite is going more period style, so we spent a few hours, including lunch, at Schot’s. The kitchen we already had figured out from previous efforts, and the flooring will be Mosowood bamboo . We just have to decide on tiles for the wet areas.
We also found out that the central heating and cooling that we wanted to salvage from our current home, as it is only 5 years old, won’t suit the new home. Well, the heating component will but not the cooling – the ceiling height makes the space too big. So we are going to salvage the heating unit (will try and sell the cooling unit if we can) and install that, then wait and see on the cooling. With the verandahs and 6 star energy rating it should be nowhere near as hot as this house in Summer.
So now we wait for the builders to get back to us.