Ah, nothing like the knowledge that your project of so many years of planning and many months of carefully making precise decisions to do with all manner of detail is in the safe and trustworthy hands of unsupervised apprentices weilding large sheets of plasterboard. The plasterboard, when bashed into the rammed earth walls, makes obvious white marks which cannot be removed, and the plastering process fills the entire house with dust. The learned apprentices were then followed by the bosses who took considerable time fixing all of the things the apprentices cocked up. But they are finally finished, and the walls look beautiful, leaving us to perseverate over decisions such as wall colour (half strength lexicon or whisper white?), tile orientation and placement (horizontal? vertical? brick bond?) and cabinetry finishes (expensive, very expensive or ridiculously expensive).
A very welcome visit by interstate relatives has allowed Tim to have some extra man power to get some jobs done- installing the ground based sprinkler pipes, and erecting the pump house. (read: stratco shed, but a very flash home for a pump nonetheless). Our plans to do most of the landscaping ourselves may be a tad ambitious... spade, anyone?
Outside the house pretty much like it has for the last couple of months, with the exception of the addition of a couple of eaves (gyprockers!), but soon we will have doors, and cladding, so the builder says.....
I think I have been bit lazy on the product shots, perhaps because I know you won't be excited to see photos of power points and the like. Most of the sexy stuff has already been aired, so here is the proposed lawnmower....
