A few more bits & pieces

OK, we're really getting to the pointy end of this house building project now (well, we'd better be since we move in this weekend!) so here are a few more pics of the most recent bits and pieces that are going on.

The lounge/dining/kitchen was cleared of builder's stuff in preparation for the floor sanding.

The floor has been sanded.

Another view of the sanded floor, the colours are coming up really beautifully & I can't wait to see what it looks like when it's oiled (I'll post more pics when the oiling is done.)

Here's Mick, the floor-sander dude.

The basin has been refitted (they originally fitted it hard up against the wall when it's designed to be free-standing - just another example of them buggering things up because they failed to ask what we wanted and made an assumption instead. Anyway, it was able to be moved fairly painlessly so now it's in the right place!)

The toilet is in.

The stairs are now finished - there may already be a pic of these but the top riser has only just been finished so I thought I'd include a pic of them as well. I'll add another when they've been sealed too as I'm sure they'll look pretty special.

These are the wire thingies on the study balcony (the ones they were fitting as I was leaving two posts ago.)

The gas cooktops are in & connected - they look crooked in this picture because they ARE but they're not as crooked as they look!

Stay tuned for a post about "the merits of being an owner builder versus paying somebody who's meant to know what they're doing" - this is bound to be a fairly bitchy and long post so I'll warn you if you're not interested in the negative bits. I feel we've been very patient (possibly too patient!) throughout this whole process but I can feel the need to vent coming on now that we're at the end. That aside, it's all VERY EXCITING and I can't wait for the first night in our house, the first lighting of the wood stove, the first coffee made on my crooked cooktop, the first morning reading in my window seat, the first story I write on the study balcony in the sun, the first load of dishes through the dishwasher.... well, you get the idea!

:)