Thursday, November 15, 2007

Update from Site meeting

3.5 weeks to go!
Things are getting tense. Some people aren't sleeping so well at night. Others have 'flu...
Here are some pictures from this morning's site meeting... Now I'm really up to date!


The tiling is being laid in the diningroom/lounge area on left and kitchen scullery on the right.



The flat is coming along nicely. On the right is inside the flat upstairs. When renting it out we will have to put a warning that only people shorter than 1m75 need apply...


The garage under the flat. Busy removing the plaster from the old flat. Lovely bricks!

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

More Updates


This is the window at the top of the stairs looking into the boys bathroom. Photo courtesy of Alick...

The QS stands at the front door of the house...


Garage/Flat is coming along nicely. 3 weeks to go...


Inside of Garage and view of the house from other side of canal. Very discreet behind the trees.

Tea Party at Mons Avenue

A couple of weekends ago, we invited some people around to have tea and choose colours for the walls.


In the "informal lounge".


Emmanuelle, Gramps and Nonna discuss the finer details of architecture...


Karen and Tracey discuss the finer details of bringing up babies while Daniel eyes out the tea.


Steve and Andrew discuss the finer details of...


Mrs LJ and Philip still working hard on a Saturday morning. Site office was moved into the boys room.

View over stairs to our dressing-room area.

Bridging the gap

Over two months have passed since the last post.

A lot has happened since then. That post was written during one of my last days of working for MIP. After that I moved over to Genesis and with that I had to give back my notebook that had everyting on it. I did save everything but getting the environment back up has taken some time and I suppose my new job has kept me busy.

Anyway. Where were we?


The roof was going up in September...


This is downstairs looking at the kitchen.




The boys room with ceiling in.


Wells had to put a flag up when we got to the top.


It was time for the flat to go now and make way for the new garage. Kessi inspects the scene...


The south side of the house.


The North-east Side of the house. Doors are in! Looking at the dinning room area.


Stairs are in. No longer do we need to climb through the upstairs window...


The boys room about to get their floor laid.


Disaster. Early one Monday morning, the site-office and storeroom below it catch fire.

The heat from the fire cracked all the windows on the south side. All had to be replaced.

And so that pretty much has been what has happened over the last 2 months.