Outside shower in the rain

This was the playroom / bathroom. Everyone is having an outside shower...















Looking from the lounge to the dinning room.

Looking from our old bedroom past the front door, lounge and to the dining room. That is the length of our house!











Benedict in what is left of the fireplace.

More From the Site Meeting

More pictures from this morning.
This is the lounge looking out at the stoep
From the lounge looking at the dinning room.

First Site Meeting

The client (that's what Kari calls me) was invited to the Thursday meeting. Here he is with the QS standing in the old dining room contemplating what to do with the levels. The plans had the kitchen and dinning/lounge area on one level and the rest of the house a step up. The builder suggested that maybe we should make it all one level.

The only problem appears to be the fireplace that would have to be somehow lowered. We might just get rid of it.

The demolition has started

So action has started! Alick was a little worried about going intothe house. As of this past weekend, PT (our builder) had removed all the cupboards and light fittings and removed the floor boards in the bedrooms. Above picture is in Daniel and Alick's bedroom (will be the guest roomwith door behind Kari and bathroom from where picture was taken.

Picture taken of the main bedroom with studay/playroom behind. This will be the lounge.

Moving to our temporary home

We moved on Thursday. It rained cats and dogs on thursday and friday. Saturday was nice and rain again on sunday. The two older boys spent 2 days with Nonna and gramps so that we could make headway with the unpacking.

Now we have all our stuff in our temporary home. The kitchen stuff appears to fit in OK. The kids toys have taken over the lounge - that's OK. The three boys are in the main bedroom. Mum and Dad are in the courtyard room and the study is at the front - although there are a few boxes there at the moment. Hopefully we will find the study under all that. Mum and Dad's room is cramped but this gives us a good opportunity to get rid of some of our stuff. Watch this sapce.

Empty House!

Here are some "before" pictures. Everything is out (almost). Bit of a problem with all the stuff in the garage. We underestimated how much valuable (ie we need to hord a little longer) stuff there is. Seeing that our temporary home only has a single garage and we need to park a car there. That could be difficult.

Philip (the builder) has suggested that he will build a wall at the end of the garage where we can keep the stuff.


View from the duck pond to the stoep. From the north-western corner of the property.
From the north-eastern corner of the property.

Last days

End of April approaches. In the last throws of packing. Some little boys want to be packed in the boxes.






Packed to the ceiling. Not much space.






There is a little space in the dinning room.

Our temporary home

While we are doing our renovations, we will be staying down the road at Oupa's house.

Here is Alick having a look down the passage. Hopefully we can fit everything in the house.

Estimates are that we will be there 6 months. This could be wishful thinking and is probably because we would want it to be only 6 months and then be back in by the end of the year... We shall see.


Here, Benedict has a look around under the watchful eyes of mum. Interestingly enough, Daniel was the same age as Ben is now when we originally left oupa's house 6 years ago.