So, here's my facebook history on the farm for the past 5 months, browse, ask questions, enjoy!
July 30, 2010 Sooo...after months of WAITING, we finally exchanged on the property today!!!! Can't believe it! Now the hard work begins...will keep you posted!
August 1 Basically ebay is just THE BEST place to find doors, kitchens, rugs, baths...basically anything and everything we need to finish the house! Also graysonline.com
Aug 2 Sooo just did a heap of measuring at the farm with Ames, SO freezing cold fiddling with a measuring tape and trying to write with ice fingers. Major winds blowing and mud everywhere...but looking very promising!
Aug 5 Beautiful Tiles!http://www.jantaninteriors.com.au/
Aug 9 Long day yesterday picking up doors for lounge room! Worth it though, thats some stuff sorted! Just 32 days til settlement!!!
Aug 24 Three days to official settlement but we're taking an extra 2 weeks, sooo 11th September hurry up!!
Aug 24 Getting heaps of help from Southern Highlands Building Supplies re our doors and windows...just in case anyone is interested!
Sep 17 Amazing! We are farm owners! Had so much advice and ideas and encouragement! Waz is delivering some rail sleepers out there right now for some well-placed mud avoiding things to walk on! SO much mud! And clay sticky mud not just your regular dirt kind of mud!
Oct 2 Just ordered the rest of our doors for the farm at a BARGAIN price from canberra,! But big sale this weekend :) Just need three windows from Southern Highlands Building Supplies...ensuite window, study window and kitchen window and we'll have the lot!!
Oct 17 Shed full of doors from Doors Plus...terrible service but cheap dooors...head full of plans...house full of sparrows...council full of...
Oct 24 The lovely Maurice starting our carpentry work on Monday...thats tomorrow! We will have some doors on before the week ends!!
Nov 23 Eleanor Street settles on Friday!! And that means we'll have MONEY!! But not for long, its already spent...tiles, kitchen, floor, power, truck, carpenter, hot water system...the list goes on!
Dec 1 Getting power on at the farm on tuesday! Maurice is installing the last of the windows today and we have a giant slushy mud mess in our driveway!Road base needed!
Jan 3 Two more door handles to go on and we can lock you out! But without a kitchen or bathroom it hardly seems worth the trouble :)
Jan 10 All coming along nicely! Been sanding and varnishing today, waz is putting the finishing touches on the battery room, Maurice comind wed/thurs to prepare the bathrooms for tiles!! Paint due to arrive this week from Ecolour so I can begin painting ceilings...a most loathed job! But all a step closer to living there!!
Jan 14 picked up all our floor tiles yesterday...those boxes didn't look very heavy but after you've moved thirty of them your arms sure know about it!
Jan 27 Bath fitted on Saturday, then some sheeting then TILES!! So excited!
Feb 22 Waterproofing and concreting for bathrooms on saturday, they have started to put the kitchen in and we're VERY excited!
Hey Mel
ReplyDeleteYour house is going to be gorgeous, love the tree. We researched mud brick many years ago when we were still on the move with the RAAF, the mud brick homes we looked at were nowhere as great as yours. Too tired for that now, so we live in a shed :D
When will it be finished? How far out of town are you an on which side?
Looking forward to more posts about your place, we might come and check it out when we are down in April if you are up for some visitors
Kathryn :)
LOVE you to visit, we will def be in by April, even if its not ready, living at mum and dads atm. Its off Middle Arm road about 8kms from the cemetary there, so about 10-15mins, depends on how lead your foot is :) Love your blog! I'll be following keenly!
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