Assembling bonanza!

I got stuck into assembling our cabinets! We put the legs on one so we could see the heights on the wall (in the kitchen and the laundry) which makes it easier to get a feel for how it will look. I had already marked them on from the measurements but it didn't seem right...but it was :)
They are all stacked up in a bedroom for now until we seal the floor and get a bit of paint on the walls.

Verandah love!

And there it is with the iron on. I love it!
Now I just need to decide on what type of decoration on the corners of the posts :)

But why would you want to do that for?

He didn't want to because it was "a pain in the #%@*@#* arse having to cut all those boards" but I insisted and he did it for me :)

Can you guess what the horizontal board along the passage way is for?


By the way, Trev has now completed the passage and has started in the back living room area. It looks so good!

Got started on the laundry! Yay!

OK so I've only done 2 cabinets at this point, but I have to say it's not really that difficult putting them together :)
The high cabinet is MASSIVE and BLOODY HEAVY! I couldn't move it on my own at all. In the box I couldn't budge it, and assembled I could kinda shuffle it about on the floor but there was no way I could have stood it up on my own.

At this point the plan is to get the laundry put together and ready for tiling!

Such fun to be had here.

I spent the afternoon scraping blobs of plaster off the floor so that it's nice and smooth for tiling. Joy of fricking joys.

Verandah goes up...floor boards go down!

We've had a busy couple of days!
J the carpenter has been back and has done the verandah frame. It looks fan-freaking-fantastic!

Trev has made a start with the floorboards this weekend and they are brilliant. He's done the entry, part way into the first bit of the passage and also into the front lounge. We may do our bedroom, but that depends on how much is left over from doing the main living areas. We took a punt on getting utility grade because we want them to look rustic and so far there hasn't been that many we can't use, so we may have enough. Hopefully this time next week we'll know for sure :)

Aren't we the foolish ones :(

Fixing the front entry has been one of those things that we were meaning to do, but because we are doing 10 things at once it got put off. There had been a bit of rain but it hadn't been an issue before so we didn't rush to fix it. This morning I woke up to VERY HEAVY rain and that combined with strong wind unfortunately blowing in the right direction, resulted in a bit of water inside. Not a lot, but enough to wet the floor in a few spots.

This is the corner of the bedroom 2 wardrobe and is the result from the rain coming out of the gutter (no downpipes are installed as yet) and bouncing back up off the ground after falling about 4 metres, and wetting the floor!

Plasterboard is a little wet as you can see, but it should be fine and any damage will be hidden behind the skirting board.


PS we collected out floor boards yesterday too. Another romantic trip into town to pick up stuff for the house :)