Baled up

The strawbale stacking is progressing and we've been able to get a better feel of what the rooms will be like and what the views out of various windows will be.

This is from inside the loungeroom & shows the dining area and the front door opening in the middle:

Inside looking back into the loungeroom:

This is the loungeroom end of the house, today they were working on the framing for the bales to sit over the big window:

And here we have the main bedroom and upstairs study. The bales have been stacked into the second storey wall and they've started to frame up the upstairs deck outside the study:

The whole front of the house. The black plastic is to keep the bales as dry as possible:

All visitors are more than welcome just give us a call.

Cheers,

Deb & Nic

Other things we like...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of showing my parents and grandparents around our building site. I think everyone enjoyed seeing the progress first-hand rather than from pics on the blog.

The laying of the bales is continuing; yesterday the builders were working on the walls to both bedrooms. They've tied down the bales for the lounge room wall and have framed up and baled the windows in the lounge and the bedrooms as well. Unfortunately, this doesn't look very different in photos to the ones I've already put up so I thought I'd share some of our flora instead.

Blossom on the ironbark

Goodenia

Running postman - Kennedia

Not sure what this is - any ideas?

Chocolate Lilly

Onion Orchid

Paper daisy

Sun Orchid

And the trick one - it's a picture of the Cassinia (curry scrub) really! :)

Posting bale!

The house is now really starting to take shape. The bales are being stacked and tightened in preparation for the render.

The western end of the house (lounge room) is up to ceiling height:

There has also been work done on the wall of the spare bedroom:

This is the window seat in the lounge room:

Nic is standing in the doorway of the trifold door into the kitchen (the brown blur in the bottom left is Luna who has made a racetrack of the space underneath the house!)

All of this sounds like wonderful news but let's not get too carried away. Nic spoke to the builder last week and the latest guess is that we won't be in the house until November. This is unfortunate since I had planned on having a house warming to coincide with the Heathcote Wine & Food Festival over the 1st weekend in October. BUT trying the glass-half-full perspective, the silver lining is that we will still be in the Wright Street house for this year's event and it is staggering distance from the show grounds where the Wine & Food is to be found... so, wine, anyone?

:)
Cheers,
Deb xXx