that sounds great, doesn’t it? there are a few more little things to finish inside the house, and a bit more (ok: a lot more) outside, but everything works, the most important pieces of furniture are in place: we have the beds, a working internet connection and i’ll get the coffee machine on sunday. the…
but we are really really close! so close it hurts we aren’t done yet, especially since it’s school holiday’s and we are forced to sleep in the shed (a time honoured tassie tradition, but still). any project manager worth their salt will tell you that the last ten percent of the work requires ninety percent…
there is no way to sugarcoat it: the render on our walls is cracking. that’s not unexpected, but, to be honest, the render could have at least waited until the paint had dried. as it is these walls aren’t even painted yet, and our painter diplomatically suggested it would be unintelligent to paint a cracked…
this has been a very long time coming, at least that’s how it feels. actually, though, we may have done alright, considering we only started last year in january, and we probably picked the worst time in recent history to build a house: material shortages, massive price increases, first a building boom (triggered by the…
you would think dirt is … well dirt cheap to begin with. and common as. turns out finding some good dirt isn’t easy, especially when it’s needed by the truckload, and we do require quite a bit to make the area around our house look good. it’s tricky business as well, as our friend anna…
it’s the new year and things are moving. maybe on quite as fast as we were hoping they would, but it’s great to see progress. good progress actually. it’s in the nature of things that sometimes it is quite easy to tell that the day we can move in is approaching, and this is certainly…
initially we only had one single, straight and also super steep road up to the top of the hill, the spot with the great view. steep enough so 2wd cars had a hard time getting to the top. then we located and eventually upgraded a perviously hardly visible goat track that we found sneaking off…
today is one of those rare times, when one can see a thing in the middle of a transformation, from one almost permanent state to another. between those two states another one is revealed, and the only thing that can capture this is a photo. or a drone shot. yesterday the guys removed the scaffolding,…
now all our internal walls are up, and as of this week, finished to near perfection, it is time for some colour. disappointingly perhaps, on most surfaces this colour will be white, which contains, physically, all colours, but could be seen as a bit of a cop out when it comes to design choice. fair…
things are progressing well: the plasterer is applying the third (and last) coat to all the plaster walls and suspended ceilings, and the renderers have been back to finish the internal walls (i think there may be some buts & pieces left), plus an external ‘trial’ bit, so we could see what it would be…
living on top of a hill (it’s only 60m above sea level, but still) has its perks. since we moved here we have seen the george river inundate the flood plain below on a number of occasions, and the causeway had to be closed several times as well. around our new home we have been…