The Finished Product - Before and After

Wall removed to create open plan dining room

Lounge painted, arch partially removed to create seamless space

Wall removed between lounge and kitchen to create open plan living and to see out to deck

Upstairs living area opened up

Main bathroom remodelled to be more kid friendly

Ensuite added downstairs

Master bedroom added downstairs

Bed 4 added downstairs

Rumpus added downstairs

Paint face lift at back of house and new doors to patio

New carport

Paint face lift

Week Fifteen - The Roof

 Week Fifteen was long awaited.  With the builders having a break over the Christmas period, our house was almost complete, bar the faded green roof.  So we looked forward to the new year to complete our little project.  The painters were here for two days and did a beautiful job of painting our roof - looks good as new.

Week Fourteen - The Exterior Painting

Week 14 was a quiet one, in the wind down to Christmas.  The painters completed the exterior painting and the fittings were completed in the bathroom.  That's all!  Now to have the house to ourselves for a while over Christmas and give it a test run -  two Christmas parties and a New Years shin-dig.

Painting completed and outdoors area back in use - yay!

Bathroom ready to go

Week Thirteen - The Polishing

Lara, Alex and I were kicked out of the house this week as the wooden floors upstairs were being polished.  This meant all our furniture was stored in one room (oh, and some on the back deck - yes there were some good storms that week)... and the kitchen was closed.  So, off we went for some time out visiting the Grandparents in both Toowoomba and Arana Hills.  It turned out to be a lovely relaxing week for me.  Alan stayed at the house and lived downstairs with a fridge and a microwave. 

Other little bits and pieces were completed (security screens being one) but as I wasn't there, I can't for the life of me think what they were!

Good couch on the back deck... hmmmmmmmm

Our empty house being sanded

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Security screens downstairs - not pretty but I love leaving my doors open!

Our empty house polished!

Week Twelve - The Sacking of the Supervisor

Well, Wednesday was interesting, with a call from both our site supervisor and from the building company to let us know that our site supervisor was no longer working for them.  Oops.  Credit to the builders - the transition to our new supervisor (who we knew well from the quoting process) went perfectly smoothly. 

Lots of different bits and pieces being attended to this week.  The concrete stairs to our carport were made a bit steep - so they had to be ripped out and redone.  This was a shocker of a job.  The poor apprentices got stuck with this one of course - on a hot Saturday no less.  So I ran out and bought some donuts and icy cold drinks that they guzzled in no time at all. 

Our shower screens went in, although they were supposed to be semi frameless and they are not.  So we get new ones in the New Year.

The balustrading on our back stairs was rotting so they threw in a new one for us - very kind, and the curtain battening was put up in the carport.

To top it all off, the silly season has begun so we got to put up our Christmas trees (yes, one up, one down) in our new rooms :)

What happens when you build concrete stairs wrong

I was going to say our messy rumpus room - but it gets a lot worse!!

The wrong shower screens :)

Our balustrade being fixed

Carport curtain battening

Merry Christmas upstairs :)

Week Eleven - The Floors

Week Eleven and things feel like they are slowing, although that's only because more of the detail is being done, or some tradies are waiting for others.  Shows we are nearing the end!  This week the floors were laid downstairs, as were the tiles and the plumber came to fit out the bathrooms.

Upstairs bathroom tiled and fitted out

Kid proof rumpus floors

Master bedroom carpets - so nice after always having wood!

Ensuite tiled and fitted out - can't wait to try out the shower!

Lara approving the soft carpet underfoot in the downstairs bedroom

Week Ten - The Plaster

Another week with the house abuzz with tradesmen.  The internal painting continued, and completed downstairs - looking great.  And the plasterers have been here from dusk til dawn.  Gee some of these guys work very, very hard.  Our bathrooms gained their vanities and were made ready for tiling.  The internal downstairs doors were also hung.  We loved the original door from the upstairs bedroom we converted, so we had them hang it on our bedroom.  Now we have mismatching doors downstairs, but we love keeping these little bits and pieces of the old house.  All in all, the house was one big mess!

The original door, moved to our bedroom

 

One big mess downstairs

Lara practising her balancing skills on the retaining wall

Learning how to be a plasterer

Vanity in and ready for tiling

Plastering completed upstairs - mess continued!