Week 1: And we're off!

The past year has been been an flurry of activity of:

• developing a design we could agree on
• obtaining a site survey
• developing the structural engineering
• seeking town planning and development approval
• obtaining building approval
• negotiating with builders
• buying supplies and
• seeking finance...

It's hard to believe that it took two people (who love efficiency) a whole year to plan a renovation, but I'm glad we took our time to get it all right. Hopefully it means this blog won't be a written reenactment of  all the Grand Designs cliches (I'm thinking, being stopped due to town planning issues, variations due to continually changing our minds, running into financial trouble, getting pregnant...)

So this week things finally kicked off! Stuff happening this week includes demolition, services getting disconnected, and preparing for the house raise. Oh, and Kate having a small meltdown on the phone to AGL. Good times.

So, to the progress this week! Here is our kitchen before we started, note the stove area at the end (where the original wood stove would have sat in ye olde days).

If you turned around where this kitchen photo was taken, the bathroom is directly opposite, and looked like this...

The old stove 'nook' has now been knocked out, and looking through this, you can see that both the kitchen and bathroom have been demolished. 

Mucho demolition rubbish in the backyard...

In addition, preparation for the house lift has taken place, with structural steel and many blocks of wood.

House liftey things, otherwise known as jacks! (thanks Dad! - Kate here!)

We plan to provide weekly updates now that the fun part has begun. Keep an eye out next week when hopefully the house will be lifted! And as always, feel free to post questions or comments below.