Week 11, day fifty-four

Friday, 8 April 2011

Too much posting this week, I imagine, but it's moving so fast in our eyes that I feel I have to document it... Day three of the framing, which was dining and lounge. Toby had to be elsewhere today, so the boys didn't get quite as much done as the last two days, but it's amazing to see the super-monster window of all time in the dining room framed up - this is the highest point in the house, and it's the window that every tradie involved has gone 'oh my god' about... Now we just have to plant something nice outside it to make it worth looking through! There's going to be a windowseat under this one and the dining table alongside that, so that it will probably be a favourite spot.

Dining window from inside...

...and out. Yep, that baby's all glass (in two sections).

Lounge windows almost framed up

Had a small problem with one set of lounge room windows as it seems the dimensions were a little out on the window schedule - the windows would have been about 200mm longer than the wall they are to be set into! (Builders and I considered an overhang on one side with a glass floor, but then decided it could be a little bit much in order to view the dirt 30cm below...) Had a slightly tight-lipped call from Warwick about this as I was attempting to wrestle Jem off the car ride outside Franklins (which, funnily enough, always seems to be broken so no, we can't put any money in it). Having not too much of an idea what he was talking about or why this would be the case, we decided it best if he call Charlie to check. Seems it was one of those 'computer says no' accidents of technology, which is bound to happen given the number of bibs and bobs involved all told. Unfortunately, the window makers had already made the frame and ordered the glass to fit, so making one window smaller to fit will cost a few hundred buckeroos. Dang.

Dining left, big sliding door right

Picked up Anita's final colour recommendations this morning and I think I love them, now that there's been time for the shocking initial suggestion to sink in (puce? silver? poo brown? Keep guessing...)

Most of a skeleton

 

Current front runner (without faux marble)

And while half-heartedly looking into double-sided fireplaces, I discovered that the model we had previously decided on (the rather gorgeous, curved-glass fronted Jotul Panorama) HAS to be bought first, and the chimney constructed around it – we were vaguely relying on the idea that we could just have a great gaping hole in the hearth and fill it in much later when we come into masses of money from an unexpected source. So I guess that means I'd better get back to some editing now (as Mat tells me when he toddles off to bed and I'm burning the midnight oil hunched over my desk, 'Just think of the fireplace'...).