Thread: Building progress shots

Hi Jill,
Just finished reading this thead..Great work and all that other stuff that the others said...Glad that you have found the time to post photos.

Originally Posted by Outback Annie

Jill, your work is amazing to say the least and your entire family are wonderful to all pull together like that for such a huge project and commitment. I shall have to dub you WonderWoman to be home schooling the kids and working on the house as well as all your other projects.

She keeps denying the wonder woman tag Annie, I know not why when it's plainly obvious to all

ps: since my little sabatical I see the house is coming along nicely Jill, going great guns it is.

Very beautiful! As expected! You are making great progress.
Beryl

Originally Posted by Jill

It is so satisfying to be able to make your own furniture, isn't it - like your beds! Even if they aren't perfect, they are more precious than anything you can buy in a store!

Jill

Jill,
I get to make beds every day & I recon it sucks. Thats good woodwork time wased.

You are right though. The furniture we make with all the mistakes that only the builder can see is far better than the bought gear. In Fact, in most cases, it probably is better built & will most likely outlast the bought gear, even when us beginers have built it. The difference is, we care.

When I dust, the $5000 looks sorta like wood thing gets wiped & the home made pine & stain furniture gets pampered. Or maybe thats just me...

Steve

Hi and thanks, Blackash, for the feedback! This thread is getting pretty long-winded!

Nice to see you back around the ridges, Wayne! I kind of shudder at any praise - esp. when I know my work isn't perfect! I picture people opening drawers and thinking (WHAT - NO DOVETAILS??!!) and seeing other things that aren't quite right! Yikes!

Thanks so much, Beryl! Won't be long now until we're done & we're really looking forward to moving in!

Too true, Steve! Hope our stuff doesn't look TOO handmade, though! I'm shuddering at the thought of posting pics of the INDOOR kitchen I build, after seeing Ironwood's OUTDOOR one!!

I'll have loads more to post in a week or so, as we've been plugging along steadily all this time. I just want to finish some of it, first. I've built 7 doors (incl. the entry door & they're all hung), am almost finished our crapiata built-in robe (with 8 drawers, SANS dovetails!), and hope to do a couple of small doors also this week, then our vanity unit next week. Just want to do the finishing first. Steve's done a lot of more unseen but important work - and hung all the bought doors, fitted glass to some timber windows, has the conservatory rafters cut and ready to go up, etc. We have most materials to finish it, now - tiles, etc., hot water system, tapware, vanity basins, etc. Not long now! I'll build another one of my little grouting 'troughs' like I dreamt up last time we built, as it worked a treat.

Better run & thanks for the feedback!

Jill

Got to love the south west of WA. I dont care what anyone else says - it is truly god's country.

I can't quite pick the location, I am thinking Nannup but then it could be anywhere down the Darling Scarp into the south west.

Fantastic looking house- I am a little green with envy - I put four years of blood sweat and tears into building 'Dunmudden', A mud brick pole frame loft house in Bridgetown and got told to transdfer before moving in!

Yes working around bush poles can be a pain in the bum but what a fantastic result.

Any plans of opening a woodwork gallery when you are done? It looks like you have the skills for it!!

Laury

Jill?... mmm... Jill??... OY!!!

Ahem... sorry about the yellin Jill but would you mind tossin some pics up for a progress update?

Cheers!!

PS... havin given up any hope or long term desire to masochistic tendancies to attempt what the sadist of the forum and her long sufferin masochistic other half are doing due to work constraints and distance from home for 2 weeks at a time... Im gonna buy a kit home and have it sent over ex east states and whack that up! HA!! mind you Jill an her brave other half will probably have moved in and had the housewarmin party long before I get a roof up

ahem pics please Jill... in the words of the immortal dirty harry "make my day"

Hi Laury & thanks so much for your post! Location...I've been careful about where exactly we are since we have so many tools around the place - but once we have the workshop set up I'll say exactly where it is, as you don't know who might be lurking on here. We love the bushpoles, too, and don't regret the extra time & work taken! You would understand all about that! 'Dunmudden' - was it featured in Owner builder magazine at all - the name rings a bell. What a shame you didn't get to live in it! As much as I really feel (and am still learning to dress for) the cold down here (Qld. blood & feel much healthier in the heat), we do really appreciate this beautiful spot of Australia! We came here, sight unseen, and picturing that it would be like the mining towns in Qld. - what a blissful surprise to find such a place! I've always dreamt of having acreage with native forest all around - with a home built by our own hands, a dam, some cattle, chooks, pigs, etc. - now we have it! Dorper sheep to come, once we have some time to sheep-fence the place. Yikes - not sure I could have a woodworking gallery! Definitely would have to hone the skills a major amount!

Wild Dingo - sorry about the lack of new pics - I'll go up today and take some, too bad about the lack of stain & the dull weather today! Hey, so you are going to build, too - keep us updated, won't you! Who cares that it's a kit, it'll still be put up by you! Will you get to put your own kitchen and other fittings in - they are the things that will be noticed more than the walls, once it's done. Sounds great!

Well, thanks to Shane's impatience you get the 'dirty-glass, sawdusty floor, missing seals and trims' unfinished versions, for now!

# 1 (Bought) Doors from Dining area into Conservatory which Steve has yet to finish staining - there's another set to the left of these which will open onto a paved log pergola area.

# 2 Jarrah Entry door. Panel edge planed with my new Triton planer attachment. The edges were shaped with the planer (hand held - yikes - not perfect), and the glass is fitted into a groove, with the top part of the door frame M&Ts just pinned so that IF the lami-glass ever gets smashed, we can easily re-fit glass. I am going to silastic (sorry, again, purists!) jarrah pieces to the glass on the door and the sidelight.

# 3 Old jarrah timber windows (bifold) from kitchen sink which will open into the conservatory - kitchen bench will be inside, to line up with window sill, and extending out to a servery outside in the conservatory.

# 4 Loo door - basic ol' double-z braced door. I wanted the doors to be different to one another.

and some more....!

# 1 Pantry door - I'll build a spice rack for the back of it. Have yet to cut the curved top parts of the frame.

# 2 & 3 Door into our son's room (and our's is the same) - mortise is cut into the jarrah frame for the timber bolt. I bought various width planks of timber, sanded off edges, cut grooves and made separate tongues - ALL because I like the random-size plank look! Could have done it heaps faster with T & G, and no one else will even notice, but I will! The other side is plain, but will have decorative studs...and they'll look way different stained - I want them to look old.

# 4 & 5 Our built-ins that I am currently working on. Jarrah drawer runners, and I also added 8mm thick pieces of jarrah to the underside of the drawer edges. Figured it would wear way better than the pine. I tung oiled the inside of the cup'd and also the drawers, yesterday, and will fit the drawer fronts, finish the doors, and stain, hopefully by Sat. evening! I was only going to post a finished pic of this with the drawers closed, due to lack of perfection (& those dovetails!), but instead you get to see the mud & guts version!

Thanks for your interest, everyone - it means a lot!

Cheers,

Jill

G'day Jill,

It's looking great - but what's new?

You've been told that so many times already. And so tidy! It's a work area and there's no rubbish on the floor etc., I'm currently building an office in the shed and there's paint tins, paint on the floor etc. but your place, well.

Thats much bedda Jill!! I mean I do sorta need a fix of your work every now an then An the weather has sure turned to... ahem... doodoos eh?

As to the kit... well its supposed to one easy job 1 bloke type thing everything sent over in one slam cause Im "so far away" and everythin build to fit its partner sorta thing... compared to the mobs here that do similar kits the inclusions in this was too good to pass up and made the others look like... well ahem sheds :eek: and for the extra $$ it will cost to have it trucked over we couldnt pass it or fault it or compare it to the sheds they show as kit homes here

Anyway a few things to do and organize first then I will make a trip to Sydney to PAAL and spend a few days sorting whats what then wait for the things to tick along as they do and once that waitings over start hoistin walls!!

Theres one issue Im still waiting on a response from them for and it may well be a bit of a stumbling point and that is they seem to work from the point of building onto a concrete slab... we intend even though were movin the houses location back up the block a fair bit and so up the slope its intended to put it onto stumps so it will need subfloor... anyway we shall see cant see a prob meself so were waitin

The kitchen once I have the actual final plans in me mits will be built by yours truely... if time allows of course but thats the intent! and of course the floors!! gotta lay my own floors!

Cheers Jill!!

PS... after a phone call just after posting the above it wont happen... seems western australia isnt good enough... theyve created a line straight down the WA NT Border and only include areas WITHIN the eastern states NT area... :mad:

Originally Posted by Jill

Too true, Steve! Hope our stuff doesn't look TOO handmade, though! I'm shuddering at the thought of posting pics of the INDOOR kitchen I build, after seeing Ironwood's OUTDOOR one!!


Jill

nobody likes him you know

No Really, that is a hell of a bbq area isn't it? I am all for stoning his roof. We used to use Icecubes on the tin rooves when we were kids, it was funny seeing people up on the roof trying to find the stones they heard the night before.

Steve

Just keeps getting better Jill! Always amazes me how much you guy's get done in the same time I get so little done. Awesome work! Do you think you'll ever be able to put your feet up and say it's finished???