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!