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Monday 28 October 2013

Kiddie's Rooms Done!

Jake and I might not have children yet but their rooms are ready...well, minus a roof, but what a view they would have!
Above is kid's bedroom 1. Its a very long room which makes it look narrow but its as deep as standard a bedroom. The brick wall directly to the right is the beginnings of their wardrobe. 

Above is kid's bedroom 2. The bricks on the left hand side that are sticking out are another annoying plumbing duct and the wardrobe will come off that. Unfortunately this kid also gets stuck with another jut out in the right corner (out of this picture) which will be the future laundry shoot. Both kids rooms have 3 windows.....I think we must have got window happy....I really wish they were all the same size or not as many, although they are bigger then average sized rooms so they may need that many for light.
This is looking into the kids bathroom......again I don't think we checked any of the top story window sizes properly. Biggest bathroom window I have ever seen. 
This is what you see directly at the top of the stairs- the door to the top floor rear balcony. It's actually quite a big space in front of it that I might need to fill with something one day.

This is looking from the master bedroom to the other side of the house at the the two kids bedrooms and kids activity room in the middle. We decided we wanted the stair balcony area to be as open as possible to avoid having hallways (which I hate!) but we may eventually close the kid's activity room in. 

Front view of the house. You can really see my love of symmetry coming through.

Monday 21 October 2013

My Amazing Staircase!

So we had to wait a few weeks for the top storey slab to cure and while the bricks arrived during that time I didn't think it was blog worthy.

So the staircase (which we had been told wasn't going to be put in until near the end to avoid damage) has had its form work come off. Luckily my husband went out one work day arvo to have a sneak peak and got a picture of it in all its glory because by the time I got out on the weekend they had covered it in scaffolding. So sad, but at least I have pictures. Isn't it a stunner! It may look small in the photo's but it is larger then the average staircase.

Eventually we will get a carpenter to put a few draws at the base of the stairs for shoes and the rest of the underneath of the stairs will be turned into something cool like an indoor garden. We have even got a powerpoint going in under the stairs.


This is a picture of what the the stairs will look like as you walk down. My husband found the picture on the ground. You can see the big window that will be in front of the stairs.


The top story brick work has started with both side walls completed. We have found our first few errors. We were more concerned with the size of the windows on the outside and location in the room that we never checked the size of the windows or heights off of the ground for the upstairs very well. Its all stuff I can live with but I wish the master bedroom front windows were higher, the main bedroom side window was bigger, my bath window was bigger and the windows in the front bedroom were the same size and height off the ground. We were so busy fixing Ventura's constant mistakes that something was bound to be missed.
The photo above shows the low front windows and tiny side window in the master bedroom.

The window second to the right is my bath window- if it were lower I would get a better view.

View from the upstairs rear balcony.