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Little House among the Canefields

It's Finished

October 24th 2009 03:59

The (almost) finished product. Front door still needs to be painted

Following are photos of the day before we moved in. There are still small amounts that need to be done but the most important thing is that council have passed us to be able to move in. And not a moment too soon, as the basement we've been living in is attached to a house that had recently been sold and about to exchange hands.

The entrance with stairs leading up and rumpus room in the background.

Never let it be said that building a house is a boring affair.

The downstairs rumpus/living area leading to spare room and laundry/bathroom

The upstairs living area with our new carpet

Our beautiful kitchen

The back deck that overlooks the cane

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Flushed with Excitement!

October 14th 2009 05:02

The watertank under the deck

It's becoming more like a real house now. The water tank has been installed, so has the hot water tank and the toilets.

What more can a person want in life?

The upstairs throne room

What I like about our toilets is that the lids and seats aren't the cheap plastic ones, but the real deal porcelain. Our 'thrones' are going upmarket.

By the way, both toilets have now been christened.

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Going up in the world.

October 12th 2009 02:38

Going to see the upstairs and our new driveway.

Our first few forays into checking out the upstairs of the house meant we had to climb a ladder inside.

There was no way we were going to allow our boys to get up there until we had some decent stairs. Their first trip to checking out the main living areas when the back steps were put in, was wonderful.

Sitting on our new back stairs

They ran around excitedly checking out each room, even hiding themselves in the kitchen cupboards, as little boys tend to do.

However, the biggest surprise was their room. It is HUGE! Since they will be sharing it for at least the next ten years, we made sure we have enough room for them and their belongings to expand in.

The boys standing in their wardrobe

I've never seen two such excited little boys and that was even before the room was painted.

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The home of the laundry shute

October 10th 2009 02:20

Our bathroom cabinets

There were two requirements that I had when we designed our new home. Aside from the obvious (bathroom, laundry, 4 bedrooms etc. etc.) the extras that became necessities were a walkin wardrobe and a laundry shute.

The wardrobe, because I could and the laundry shute because the idea of being able to dump dirty clothes into a hole and have it go straight downstairs to the laundry really appealed to me

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Miles of Tiles

October 8th 2009 10:57

New tiles in the kitchen area

The following photos show the newly laid tiles in the kitchen and bathroom upstairs.

Tiles leading to the internal stairs

The tiles need a bit of cleaning but they still look great because they are where they are meant to be...on our floors

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We have a kitchen!

September 21st 2009 06:26

The dark angle of our kitchen

It's finally in. Our lovely, lovely kitchen and it looks exactly how I planned it.

The only extra we put in was profile doors. I love them and despite friends telling me they take up more time cleaning, I couldn't help myself

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Downstairs!

September 16th 2009 06:10

The living area with doors leading off to the spare room and laundry/bathroom

It's hard to believe that an archetrave or skirting board to be exciting, but as they keep appearing around the house, that's exactly what they are.

The following photos are of the downstairs area and include the spare room, laundry/bathroom and garage

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Backyard Blues

September 13th 2009 07:57

Flattening out our backyard

I've been talking so much about the house I have forgotten to mention the backyard.

The block is 811m2 and had a huge pile of dirt on it leftover from the scraping out of the foundations. As it was somewhat low-lying we got a grader in to flatten out the mound as well as shipped in some more dirt so that there would be runoff in the wet times

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The colour is 'autumnal'

September 8th 2009 06:43

The first side painted

A friend asked me recently why we painted our house orange when we had a red roof. I corrected her and said it was 'autumnal' which really means it has a more terracotta look.

To her credit, she had only seen the house from a distance at that point and changed her mind when she saw it

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Now for the cladding!

August 21st 2009 10:38

Front of our newly cladded house at last light

I came home late from work, to find that the skeleton now had meat on it's bones. It's actually beginning to look like a house.

After chatting to the neighbour and the builder I managed to take the photos attached to this story at last night, the dying embers of the day. Hence the darkness of the photos

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