From kitchen to bedroom

                 

                                      The oven is leaving and it will be long time until we have an oven again. 

  

                

The natural laws which govern street throwout meant that we never saw the pickup vehicle but our oven disappeared within the day. I wonder what it is doing now!

So the kitchen is gutted and boarded up. It's morphing into Bedroom 3. 

Back of the house and now the stairs have to go. 

Most days we pick something fresh from the garden for our dinner.

  

                                   

Going ... going...

                                    

Gone.

Basil is loving it. 

   

Lemongrass, ginger, galangal and totem tennis all flourishing.

New glass - 

old front door. 

Dunny means builder. Yahoo.
NB Position of smiley face, he pops up regularly in changing locations.

Bathroom blues

This is the old bathroom getting a slight reshape and floor boards are removed. 

Floor boards are salvaged for later reuse. I love the paint colours in those old VJ's

Tile underlay goes down.

This is the old clawfoot bath which has been sanded, painted the perfect shade of charcoal and then... we tried to put the feet back on. Uh oh an old inclusion in the cast iron had finally rusted through after 80 years and the foot clip broke off. Bath is now useless in the bathroom and will become a pond. 

Plumbing is roughed in. 

Villaboard to line the walls

Wiring is in.

Waterproofing

Sweet... the back part is the wet area and has been divided for the glass partition.

NO ACCESS!

Chip the stripper

This front room has 16 windows. After they have been stripped, they get sanded, brushed down and lined up in the painting room. 

 Once a window makes it to the painting room (a bedroom with only 5 windows) then each window gets laid out on saw horses. It gets an undercoat and then 2 topcoats of gloss enamel. The undercoat takes approximately 30 mins on one side. The top coats take approximately 20 mins per one side of one window. Sometimes a bit of sanding is required between coats. It doesn't actually pay to do the maths. Fact: Richard Fidlers conversations  do make the time go quicker. 

We couldn't do it without Chip our Stripper - he strips and putties MAGIC. 

Our preferred paint colour for architraves and windows - Orchid.

A glimpse down the hallway of more windows. 

Our sunflowers that we planted 12 weeks ago are flowering. 

Hole diggers and holes.

                   

 Didn't take us long to figure out who had been digging in our mulch. What we didn't know until we did some more research is that Scrub Turkeys test the temperature of the mound by digging small test holes and measuring the temperature with their beaks. Apparently our mound was the perfect temperature because some time later we found an egg.

These are the holes we paid for  - soil tests. 

Penetration test came back good.! 

                 

    

  

Holes in the house as windows and doors are removed. 

Look at the view. This is our dorry space. 

Beautiful synchronicity

Sooo... the house sanding took a while but the painting started immediately and then the roof started to go on. Progress. 

Stan England did our house sanding. Thankyou. 

The colour is Athena - a Wattyl colour. 

Jones Roofing in action!