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