Week 20 - House organization and final electrical

Some photos of the finished house! Still unpacking...excuse the mess.

House with new exterior paint

Front of the house

View from the front door

Kitchen

Living room from the hallway

Living room with the fireplace

Close up of the fireplace (enclosed gas system) and new tile

Sunroom

Hallway

Bookcase in the hallway

Ethan's room

Master bedroom


Guest bathroom

Week 19 - Moving in!

We are in!!! Still some electrical work left to do, but it is gorgeous. The Feys are home.

Photos coming soon (once we clear up some of the chaos).

Week 18 - finishing touches and moving in!

The house really came together this week and Jenn and I have been hard at work building closets and moving our things in. We move in for good on Saturday May 9 and so will be moving in throughout the rest of this week.

Master bedroom showing Nick's closet and the splendid floors

Master bedroom showing Jennifer's closet

Master bathroom just needing shower valves, a sink faucet and a toilet... 

Kitchen with some of the appliances in

View from the front door

Hallway bookshelf

Hallway with light streaming in from the master bedroom

Guest bathroom all ready apart from a shower curtain, sink and faucet

Ethan's room

Ethan, tidying up his closet

Week 17 - Floors, paint and lighting

The painters finished inside the house this week and the floors were finished. This week also saw many of the lights and switches installed and the ceiling speakers were put in. Finally we got approval to turn on the solar power so that is chugging away busily bringing in a steady 1500 watts into the house and making the electrical meter rotate backwards.

Finished floors - here looking into the house from the sunroom with the new flooring

This is the finished older flooring in the master bedroom

The sunroom with finished floors and paint

The speakers and lights next to the new skylight in the sunroom

The master bedroom with a less pink paint color

The kitchen with lots of new working lights

Ethan's bedroom with cool white panelling and green walls

Week 16 - painting and planting

The house is filling with color! Painting week.

Sunroom with a warm tope

Ethan's room is a bold green!

Master bedroom is a bit pink...so we are changing the color

The kitchen is taking shape

We planted the hedge this weekend using Podocarpus Gracilior (Tree Fern) to provide some privacy around the bedrooms. It is a nice alternative to a fence and provides an attractive lush backdrop to our little garden on the side of the house. At the moment, it is not providing much of a screen! But it fills in fast. We are adding a small 3 feet high fence blended in with it to contain kids and pups.

Podocarpus Gracilior - closer up to give an idea of how well it screens

Side of the house with a planted hedge

Week 15 - Bathroom tiling, kitchen cabinets, fireplace tiling, final trim, loft hatch and tree removal

The master bathroom tiling nearly finished this week (just need grouting) with a wonderful job done on the floor tiles:

Also the guest bathroom shower tiles were installed:

And the fireplace wall was tiled covering up the brick:

The wall mounted kitchen cabinets were installed this week:

And here is a shot looking from the living room, through the kitchen into the sun room - beautiful large open space:

The loft hatch was installed:

Funny story....we arranged to have the old pine tree removed from the side of the house and the team removed every living thing on the side of the house including all the beds of plants I had carefully transplanted to create some layering once the hedge had been planted. This is what it looks like now....:

Week 14 - Cabinets, floors, doors, trim, and bathroom tiles

This week the bottom row of kitchen cabinets finished off being installed, the hardwood floors were laid through the house (the current ones will be sanded down to all look like the natural new color), the interior doors were installed throughout, trim was added to the windows and the bathroom tiling was started!

Jennifer and Ethan jump for joy because they love the new hardwood floors. All the flooring will eventually be that lighter color.

The kitchen cabinets taken from behind the peninsula in the sun room

The windows have trim! This is the one high up in the sun room.



New interior doors - this one is at the end of the corridor leading into Ethan's room

The tiling has begun, here over the master bath. You can't see the slate tiles on the floor which also have the same row of smaller tiles mirroring the horizontal layer breaking up the walls