Monday, June 14, 2010

June 15, 2010

The bamboo flooring, This took all weekend but I think I finally have the hang of it. Great work to Jaime for all the help.


Kitchen all done.

June 13, 2010

Self levelling compound inbetween the concrete and wood areas. Getting ready for the Bamboo flooring to go down.

1 ton of bamboo flooring - what a struggle to get it all upstairs. We are tackling this ourselves which should be fun as either of us have ever done it before.

'Mack' my outdoor heater and my dog Harley loving the warmth. It has been really cold here lately and this is the only heating we have in the house. We have been spending most of our time out here at the moment as we have moved in and still have no internal heating.

June 7, 2010

The kitchen with sink and stainless benchtops. The sink benchtop flows outside the window as a breakfast bar.


June 1, 2010

The deck after being cleaned. 1 more coat of oil to go.

May 31, 2010

My great ebay find. Bought these Agave's off ebay and bid on 15 mature plants. With no picture I didn't know what to expect. I ended up with slightly a few more than expecting. There were about 10 plants on each of the 15. I will be building the dry stacked walls asap to get them in the ground.


That's a full sized trampoline there all sitting on.

May 17, 2010

Kitchen started.

May 11, 2010

Big doors in and working.

Fascia panels on the side of the deck.

Screens all sent off for powercoating

May 7, 2010

Stairs are in. Kwila stringers with Yellow Balau treads.


May 6, 2010

The fence is up and just next to the tree there is a gate so we can let mum in occasionally.

The big middle doors are up.


The stairs have been started.

2 May, 2010

I cutdown the solid concrete pavers to create the polished concrete benchtops we wanted.
The vanities were made to hold the weight and now the sinks are on.

Little downstairs vanity.

Road-base smooth. Ella riding her bike.

1 May, 2010



Had landscaping done, created level and the path to the deck from driveway. Also had the driveway leveled and 20 ton of road-base dropped. The boundry fence is also started.


Rolling the driveway flat. The lovely Jaime driving the roller while I barrow road-base.

Still rolling at 10pm. Ella loving every minute.









April 28, 2010

Little slat screen above door was finished.

April 27, 2010

Built a retaining wall under the house so we could build up the earth without it going around the poles. This is to keep it dryer and so we don't have to fill it with more dirt.

April 26, 2010

Screens under balustrades. These are aliminium extrusion with 50x50 4mm welder mesh slide down inside the u channel. These now are going to be powder coated black.



Stair treads finished.

Capping for the fascia of the deck. This is Kwila.

April 21, 2010

Main Bathroom fully tiled

As is the downstairs toilet

Front door on.

Bi-folds up and working. I still have to do the last door that was replaced because a slip of the saw after I stained it.