Barnescoop: Day 46

Day 46 and it's starting to feel real.
Our current home is listed for rent again, and the real estate are bringing people through already.
We have a deadline. A very real deadline.

But...we also have walls. And walls is good!

Here is the living area, complete with walls! No plaster, paint, skirtings or architraves...but there are windows and walls and safety from the elements! Hooray 😊

So this is the living area , looking a bit cosier with walls 😉

Detail of the fireplace where it is currently. In the middle of the living space! There was thought to extend the wall up behind it in stacked stone & make it a feature, separating living areas...

BUT, it's going to move back against the outside wall in line with where it is now, next to the window you see above.

We are excited though, because we're still creating a sandstone feature wall behind it 😁 A feature sandstone wall will go in the kitchen in line with the island bench also 😄

The laundry is now enclosed..and a bit bigger for now! Yay for Mummy.

And finally the back verandah wall is now enclosed. This is the view from our bedroom with main window, down past the bathroom & to the laundry window. Everything has been put in to match stage 2 of the extension.

For example, here is inside the bathroom (main bathroom, ensuite coming stage 2 reno). We've taken the window out and put it in the new external wall, however we won't extend the bathroom itself. This area will become the laundry in stage 2 reno, and the existing laundry will become the main bathroom. The area that is our current bedroom will become WIR & ensuite to the main bedroom, which will be a whole new room added on in stage 2 reno.

So the window you see here in our current main bedroom, is actually a smaller window for the ensuit, above the bath. When we add on the main bedroom, we will put in a window which goes to the floor, matching the front bedroom windows 😊 keeping it all uniform, and letting in plenty of natural light!

So...over to the shed....

Office front wall taking shape! 😊 Shem is getting most excited about this part...it is impressive! (I get a bit more excited about the house...naturally!)