Building progress shots

**Jill** · 17th July 2006, 01:53 PM

Here are some more shots for those interested.

# 1: Outside shot taken from back corner - I'll take one from the front once we get the front walls done - have to get down on the dam bank to fit it in, and then it's still an 'up the nose' shot of the house!!!

# 2: Pantry emerging. The window is so that groceries can be passed through directly into the pantry and fridge/freezer. The window will be a jarrah one, unused, but 2nd hand, that I have yet to glaze. The doorway behind it is a cupboard that will hold thing like beach chairs, big eskies, car cleaning gear, etc.

# 3: Some of our eldest (19 y.o.) daughter's preserves - and why we need a pantry!!

# 4: My favourite log set in the wall. The open doorways either side of this will have jarrah stained (meranti) double doors that are 8 or 10 light ones - we'll buy them soon.

# 5: Laundry from kitchen, before we get so many walls up you won't be able to see it! On the right wall of the laundry i will build a shallow built-in cupboard holding sewing machine, overlocker, fold-out ironing board, and storage for clean clothes for each room - a basket each - so that clothes will be folded straight from the dryer & line & sorted into these. The left side will have windows, and the usual bench, etc. and machines tucked just behind the wall from the kitchen so you can't see them! To the right of that door, around the log, will be an alcove for the stove - MAYBE complete with terracotta roof tiles...we'll see what happens when we're bricking up....I am female, therefore I have the privilege of changing my mind..!

Cheers,

Jill

**Pops** · 17th July 2006, 05:12 PM

Hi Jill,

I have been reading your posts with much interest and am very impressed with your project. It is just the sort of house I have always wanted to build myself but never have, dream on. It is coming along superbly and so much thought has obviously gone into the design. Like the pantry window idea, brilliant. So well done, very well done.

Do keep the photos coming. At least I can live a dream vicariously through your photos.

Cheers
Pops

**TTIT** · 17th July 2006, 06:18 PM

Really starting to look like a home now Jill

A real 'welcome home' type home.

Was wondering where you guy's were living during construction - must be the granny flat down the back eh?!?!

**ThePope** · 17th July 2006, 06:56 PM

You guys been busy lately, is coming along nicely Jill.

Originally Posted by Jill

The open doorways either side of this will have jarrah stained (meranti) double doors that are 8 or 10 light ones - we'll buy them soon.

What's this, buying doors ?

**ernknot** · 17th July 2006, 07:04 PM

Very nice Jill, looks homley already. Keep the pics coming.

**Jill** · 18th July 2006, 12:56 AM

Thanks, you guys! It's so nice to come in totally clagged and find some replies! Today, Steve came home from work at 2 p.m. and we laid about 60 blocks - in amongst rescuing our runaway piglet for the 4th time in the 1.5 days we've had her (someone gave her to us yesterday)!!! She'd need to be related to Houdini to get out, now! She loves dogs, as the last owners had a big brindle boxer that cried when we put the piglet in her new pen - so she has now met and played with most of the canines within cooee of us!

So, we have a stove alcove half built, etc. I'll update pics in a few days!

I finished one door today - a jarrah one - before Steve came home. Hope to do more tomorrow.

Thanks Pops - I'm a bit of a dreamer, and spent a lot of time when I should have been sleeping, 'walking, working' in the house, in my head! I'm glad you're enjoying the pics!

Thanks TTIT - we're living in the workshop/visitor's accom. shed that may be in the background in some pics?!! Can't wait to set it up as a workshop!!! (Edit - it is cream iron with a Manor red roof - NOT the greyed hardwood chookpen - the chooks can have that to themselves!!!)

Hi Wayne - lol, yep, we're cheating on some of them!!! Glazed ones, but then I could make them in not much time probably!

Thanks Ern - we're making a lot of progress that can be SEEN right now, so it is really fun!

Cheers,

Jill

**Andy Mac** · 18th July 2006, 09:45 AM

Hi Jill,
You are really making visual progress now, and its looking beautiful.

The pantry will be well insulated in there, more like a cellar! I take it the preserves are from home grown fruit and vegies!?

Cheers, and thanks for the pics.

**Bubinga** · 18th July 2006, 09:55 AM

That is a cool looking loft. You can always tell when someone appreciates wood. Nice job!

**Jill** · 18th July 2006, 10:07 AM

Hi Andy!

I'm glad you like it & thanks for the feedback!!

The pantry should do the job! I'll make a jarrah shutter for inside the pantry window, too. Some of the preserves are from some homegrown produce - but at this stage the big veggie garden fence is still some pegs in the ground! I only have a little shade house that is rabbit/roo/cattle/chook proof, which I have kept absolutely stacked for most of the time! Takes a while to set everything up - esp. amongst building!! We live in an area where you can go for a bit of a drive & get produce straight from the farms/markets, so Natasha just usually goes and buys a boot-full of fruit and veggies to use for her preserves. I'm planning on framing the shelving with marri or pine & then using 600 x 600 tiles cut into 400 (x 600's) and 200's (to fit the space we have) to form the shelves. That will keep the produce cooler, too.

Cheers,

Jill

**Jill** · 18th July 2006, 10:15 AM

Thanks Bubinga - I took so long replying to Andy, we cross-posted! Thanks for the feedback! The kids love their loft bedrooms, too - particularly because of the dormer windows - so they were worth it even though they took lots of time to build!

Cheers,

Jill

**Jill** · 18th July 2006, 11:54 AM

Here's the door I finished yesterday - I had some jarrah floorboards (rejects - but nothing that a thicknesser couldn't fix!) that were in shorter lengths to use, and some other bits of jarrah I milled and thicknessed to the sizes I wanted. The arch was drawn freehand, apart from measuring five points! The floorboards are joined behind the central piece (whatever it's called), which is joined into the side bits by half-blind dovetails (I think they're called). The top and bottom pieces are made to go right across, to hold all the floorboards together, as they are only screwed on the back. I know it's a cheat's way of building a door, but it is SO heavy even as it is, it's for a cupboard, so you won't normally see the inside, and I didn't want anywhere where water could pool (it's an exterior door) and rot it out.

Cheers,

Jill

**Andy Mac** · 18th July 2006, 12:51 PM

Hi Jill,
That's a nice looking door too!
Just quick one, to draw a curve like that arch, I usually just flex something handy, like a strip of ply, or even a 1m steel rule... much easier with someone else to hold it! Or you can tie a length of string between 2 nails, not quite tight, then run the pencil along the string, pushing it taut as you go.

Cheers,

**Jill** · 18th July 2006, 11:18 PM

Thanks for the hints, Andy - because I have a few others to do with the curved top, I'll make a template up.

We've only one more lot of block laying (one lot of mortar - about 30 blocks) to do before we'll need the windows. Friday, hopefully.

Cheers,

Jill

**Harry72** · 18th July 2006, 11:31 PM

Its really taking shape now, Betcha your glad that the light at the end of the tunnel is in view!

**Jill** · 19th July 2006, 01:04 AM

Thanks, Harry! It is fun looking at the rooms and 'seeing' them finished in my mind's eye - tiled, and my cabinetry done! It will still take a while, and it is really enjoyable in the meantime...but when it's finished, we're going to have to find another hobby!!!

Nah - plenty of other things we love doing, and a good lazy holiday with the kids is looking pretty good!

Cheers,

Jill

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