Oh so close, yet so far away! It's so frustrating to come home several days and see loads of progress and then come home the rest of the week and it seems like absolutely nothing has happened! But alas! We are making progress...slow and steady wins the race...or so they say. The past two weeks has seems some pretty big changes. They still say that we should be ready to lay our flooring upstairs by the end of November, which will allow us to get the kitchen installed before Christmas hopefully. They are also saying that we'll hopefully be "secure" upstairs by the end of the year, which means that we will hopefully be living in a bit less dust, and we'll be able to spread out from the 3 rooms we've been living in for the past few months.
Progress for the week of 12 November...
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| The "entry", looking from the front door. On the right is a coat closet and the door to the study. |
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| Looking into the study, you can see the window that was bricked up and how much smaller the front window now is. |
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| Standing in the study, looking back towards the door. |
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| From the end of entryway looking into the open plan living/dining/kitchen area |
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| Looking back towards the front of the house. The kitchen will be in the left corner of the room. |
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| The plasterer has been busy...the corner windows of the living area looking out to the back garden. |
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| The stairway that will now be inside the house...getting ready for the windows and doors to go in. |
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| The view from the edge of the balcony with the pitched roof finished...it will look good (once painted of course :)) |
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| Looking from the doorway of the house out onto the balcony... |
So, for the week of the 19th, not only did we have Summit in doing work. We also had our own bathroom guy in redoing the middle bathroom. It's not quite done yet, but it's looking really good :)
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| The hallway and toilet with the new tiles installed...just have to install the actual toilet, do some finishing plaster work, and paint! :) |
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| Our new bathroom, almost done! I like the way the feature tile turned out, and the bathtub looks good as well. Of course, we still need to paint the ceiling in here too :) |
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| Just another shot... |
Summit actually made some good progress this week as well...some...
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| You can see the sliding glass doors installed to the balcony. |
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| And the windows as well :) |
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| And the waterproofing has been painted on the balcony floor, and the rendering on the wall opposite has been done too. |
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| Looking back towards the house at our lovely balcony...I can't wait to sit out here and chill on summer's evening! |
Lots of progress...but still a far way to go before they're done! We'll just keep taking baby steps so we don't drive ourselves mad!
Check back soon...we should be installing flooring in the next couple of weeks! woohoo!
Though it's a bit late, I'd like to congratulate you on making such progress on your house. Its been 7 months now and I believe your place looks perfect today. I am also planning to make major renovations on my house; and with the help of an online timetable to keep track of my progress, I hope my place will turn out as good as yours.
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