Glass in - with guest blogger Steve

Anna has gone away and delegated the twin responsibilities of looking after her offspring and the renovation project – no pressure.  As an added bonus she decided it was time to prepare Max for the transition to a real bed by taking the side off his cot the night before she left.  Max was pretty damn happy with this development. So happy he decided to make an appearance beside my bed at 4AM to declare something like ‘that there … car’ and start laughing like a maniac.

 

The door to the kiddie dorm is now kept closed.

Gib is going on this week so there has been a bit of a scramble to get all the lighting finalised.  We’ve been furiously researching LED vs. Halogen, bulb dimmability, pink batt abbutance regulations and multi-gang plate options.  We think we now have a solution (LED) but haven’t run it past the electrician just yet.

In other news, we now have glazing in our giant stacker doors.  They look awesome – as well they should given the arms and leg we’ve had to sacrifice to pay for them.  The girl monsters are just big enough to move them.

 

 

Maxie enjoyed pulling off the blue dots the glaziers stuck on to prevent people walking into them. Sofia was delegated the task of stopping him. She gets an ‘A’ for effort with a pretty hopeless cause.

 

And we sold out kitchen for an unbelievable $3600 – Trademe sent a note to say ‘Uh oh your trademe account is $100 in the red and needs some love’ which I guess is predominantly due to their large commission on $3600.

Anna has probably told you we have a dishwasher in our old bathroom.  every night I load up the big plastic bucket and wander round to load up the dishwasher.  Here are today’s dishes ready for washing.  Despite my best efforts to reorient the picture you need to turn your head ninety degrees to view as it is actually is.

 

                  

While I’m dropping off the dishes I usually spend some time reviewing progress and imagining the finished build. Tonight I was thinking about:

1 – whether we need a glass panel toplight window above the hallway cavity sliders – given we’ve cancelled the $1100 skylight and $2000 glass panel doors I’m itching to do something about hallway light.  My current thinking is don’t bother with the top-light as it would only be 25cm high so won’t let through much light - and all you’d reveal is ceiling.  Anna’s counsel is to sit tight and wait for the quote so I’ll do that. photo below shows space above doors where toplight would go.  Ben says he'd need to knock out 'a couple of sticks to put it in - no worries'

 

2 – will the placement of the attic stairs in a bedroom work with potential furniture layouts. I think there will probably be a single bed about where the stairs will land. Would the hallway be a better option?  How would that work with matching in ceilings? Should I have told Anna I had to make an on the spot decision re placement.  Will Ben be pissed off having to move the opening to the hallway after building it above the bedroom today? Picture below is beautifully made opening in bedroom.

 

3 – how the stacker doors are even better than I imagined them

 

4 – whose fingers will get caught in the doors first?

5 – the living space challenge is not with the rear wall we originally wanted to push back but the width dimension – I still worry the couches will be too close to the telly.

6 –  Everything else I have worried about is either irrelevant or forgotten so let’s not give that one too much head space. 

7 – if the gib goes on this week – then there is plastering, painting, flooring and finishing off to go.  We must be nearly finished mustn’t we?  Should we be bringing kitchen delivery forwards?  will subtly raise that one again tomorrow after an answer wasn;t relaly forthcoming when I asked at roof shout.

8 – I can’t wait for this all to be over – I’m tired with making so many big decisions.  I want my new house now.  Or I just want my home back.

9 – why didn’t we just bowl the garage (have an extra metre of lounge width) and build an internal access garage? How could someone else do that down the track?

10 - how old will I be when we've finished paying this  off?
 

11 – we’ve been sweating away in the detail – but don't forget this is shaping up just as well/ even better than I imagined it would.

Anna will be back to relieve me from my duties tomorrow,

Guest blogger Steve