Wednesday, February 20, 2008

We have a floor and it's red!

Here is our floor being built. The timber is red as it is specially treated to repel termites. It looks very pretty!! The sheets on the right are the chipboard floor which Jake and Ben are helping to put on.
Darren wants to shoot me?????

Our handsome helpers, Ben and Jake.

Today, the site is being sprayed for termites and the floor will then be finished. Next, we start walls. Stay tuned.

PS Thanks Teresa for your comments. Hopefully it won't be long till you're doing the same as us.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

You guys can make comments!

Hey, do you realise you can leave comments on our blog? Just click on the words "0 Comments" or whatever the count is, at the bottom of each post. Then you can write us a message! Thanks Jo for being the first to comment! Love Jodie.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Our garage

Our garage is coming along nicely as you can see from these photos. This will be Darren's workshop and where he will keep his van. I will have a smaller garage up on the main house level. Darren is very excited with the size of his "shed".




This photo is looking up the driveway to where the main house will be with the garage on the left on the lower level. Darren has plans to turn the slope in front of the garage (where the tree fern is at the top) into a conifer garden.

This pic is taken from above the retaining walls. All the stumps are now in and the garage is on the left in the background.

We have also decided to downsize the upper storey of the house. It was just too big! We are now having 4 bedrooms upstairs for the kids as well as a bathroom (with 2 showers) and a communal closet. Downstairs will be our bedroom and a guest room. So it is now 6 bedrooms instead of 8 which was a bit ridiculous. Jake and Ben will have their own room and the others will share for now. The younger ones don't like being on their own anyway and we can always use the guest room or other spaces for a bedroom later on if we need to. We still have 2 living areas plus a huge rumpus room downstairs.

That is the news for now. We should be able to start the floor very soon. Love to all, Jodie.

PS, our "baby" Amber starts school tomorrow!