Devil with a blue dress

Things are flying along. On Thursday I had gutters. Today I have blue petticoats! You can really get a sense of the rooms now. I think I've made the other bedrooms too big and the bathroom too small. But hey, I won't be living in that part, will I :)

Cabinetmaker has quoted kitchen, bathroom cabinets and laundry cabinet and come back with a price that surprised me - it was actually less than I'd thought. Now to select colours *sigh*. Bathroom tiles are also on the agenda.

The way things are moving I might be data cabling next weekend. Best go buy that label maker. Oh and a hammer .. and um .. clip thingies .. and um .. those wall brackets .. and um .. conduit, just in case. And price the Hills Whosit. I love high tech geek talk *ruff ruff*

So much to do, so little headspace.

I have a doorstep!

Looking into living from end of front hall.
Kitchen half wall is on the right front of the picture.

Living looking towards media door. Doors to al fresco on left.

And the garage has frames for the door!

Looking back towards front door .

All trussed up

The past two days the carpenters have been putting up the trusses. They are nearly finished and now it's really 3D. I can see how high the ceilings are. 2550 or 8'6" in the old language - bit of a difference to the ten footers I have now. The hall might need a skylight in it - I think it will be dark.

I'm not sure what comes after this part. Fascias? I know it's gonna get an anticon blanket laid over the top, then the roofing.

Framed

Yesterday it kept raining (p!ssing down actually when I left for work), so the carpenters had to give up and leave. They were back this morning to finish off as the trusses are arriving on Monday and it needs to be ready. I'll have a roof! Sort of.

All the colour selections have been given to the lovely Ingrid in the office. No going back now. I just hope it all looks more or less ok. We've seen some pretty awful examples of "what were they thinking?" when we've driven around new suburbs.
The porcelain floor tiles have been purchased from the auctions. I only saw them at night; one tile in a gloomy shed and Stephen forgot to bring me a sample back, so I'm a bit nervous. Saved $1,000 though. Still have to select the bathroom tiles. I've seen some really nice brownish, creamish, greyish stripey sort of ones. Yeah that didn't make sense lol. Sent kitchen plans off to cabinet maker to be priced. Now THAT makes me really nervous! And I still have to choose paint colours arggggghh!

The sub-division application has been sent back to the surveyors for lodging. Sounds grand but we really will only be splitting up the marital assets and won't be making zillions of dollars at all. Might get a fully paid for house and a bit of furniture out of it. A lot of furniture if Megan has her way - she is shopping vicariously through me; like she can't shop well enough on her own lol.

Today's pics:





Bear doing his daily inspection in front of Al (fresco) - he races out the gate and zooms around hunting for any left over Maccas. The concreters left him lots.

The usual view.

I wuz framed!

One pic for today. The chippies made frames in sections yesterday and today they started standing them. All the outside ones are done. Not bad for two guys - very fussy guys I might add. Everything is so square and so neat.



Might be all done by Friday!

Hubs and frames

The frame is starting yay. No piccies cos there's not really much to show. Framing timber has arrived. The chippies spent all day marking out walls onto the concrete and putting some base timbers around the edge of the slab.

I gave them the (minor) changes this morning, but I think they've buggered up the kitchen size - only 300mm but that's a cupboard!

Everything looks really small and I had to measure the laundry to convince myself that it was actually big enough for the washing machine, dryer and tub.

While I was procrastinating about finishing my assignment (cos it sucks and I have no idea why my SQL won't work), I found some info about home networking. I want to get the wiring inside the walls before plaster goes up and I've only just discovered the easy way to do all this stuff derrrr.

The alternatives:

*Starserve - looks good, but possibly overpriced for what it is
http://www.clipsal.com/consumer/products/data_communications/Clipsal_StarServe

*HPM Harmony - really hard to get information; do they actually want to sell it?
http://www.hpm.com.au/default.asp

*Hills Home Hub - probably what I'll end up getting if I can just find out where to buy it!
http://www.hillshomehub.com.au/arbitrage/pages/Home

*Lexcom - this is very very cool ... and a tad expensive ... but very very cool. But if I win lotto in the next week or two ........

Also hard to get info about but this blog is good. lexcomhomenetwork.blogspot.com

http://lexcomhomenetwork.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html

If anyone has any other bright ideas about it, information or experience, let me know!


Hopefully tomorrow or Wednesday I can post some piccies of the frame. At this rate I might even be in by Christmas and the girls can cook me a nice Chrissy dinner in the new oven.

Roller rink

I have a slab!! or a roller rink, according to Zoe. And yes, I scratched my name in a corner of the garage :) Not sure if it will stay though, because the concrete was pretty hard by the time I got home.

3D

Today they boxed up the slab. My house is getting 3D as Zoe put it.




Bear giving his seal of approval to the al fresco area (or looking for a place to pee)

Hopefully it will be poured tomorrow.