Love, bubs and life on our little farm

I am so happy to report that as of this afternoon, the builder is completely finished inside the extension! We are waiting on the carpet to be installed next Thursday and we have two doors left to work on and then it is doneza! Hopefuly we can get it all wrapped so that we can move in sooner rather than later.

Outside is also going well - the handrailings are going in next Monday and the crimsafe screens in on Tues or Wed. Then there is only the tidying up to be done by the builder.

We have completed the interior painting and although we have a fair bit of exterior painting to do, we have done some of the hardest parts of it (the peaked roof of the deck etc). We have to knock some of it over on the weekend before the handrail cables go in the verandah poles so that will help motivate us. The interior painting was hell - it has taken so long and due to the large number of windows and doors we put in, we had a lot of architraves that were painstaking to do. Putting the kids to bed by 8pm and then paiting each night until 11pm and then feeding Bronte was making me pretty tired! So relieved to have it done and even more relieved that I LOVE the colours.

The bathroom was completed today - the shower screen and custom mirror were installed and I helped the builder position the towel racks and shower shelf etc. It looks amazing! Photos to come.

The plumber is still completing the down pipes and underground network of pipes feeding into the water tanks, it has been quite a messy job involving ripping up just about every bit of lovely green grass I had in the front courtyard. This is what it looked like this morning - ouch!


But it looked remarkably better when I got home this afternoon and the bob cat had even moved the fill up into the new carport driveway area. It needs more work but at least you can see that cars can now enter and exit the area!

Unfortunately I am now just seeing all the work that is left for us - staining deck timber, building gardens, buying topsoil, moving furniture etc But hey its all part of the fun!