This week, preparation continues for the facelift which our house will receive over the next few weeks. Upstairs, electrical rough-in continued, the windows have been removed in preparation for the new ones, and more demo has completely exposed the back part of the house.
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| Future living area, open section will be stacker doors to the deck |
Another exciting development was demolition of the floor of the original kitchen, opening up where our staircase will be. It's going to be a welcome double height space in an otherwise compact house, complete with gorgeous feature light which Michael snapped up for 30% of the retail price off eBay.
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| Future staircase |
Our front patio was also opened up this week, which will completely change the look of the front of the house (obscured by scaffold at the moment). The house would originally have been in the form of an asymmetrical bungalow with a gable and porch, but the porch had been built-in at some stage in the past to form a study/sleep-out.
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| Federation and Inter-war asymmetrical bungalow (image courtesy Queensland Museum) |
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| Reinstated front patio, looking forward to polishing up that lovely original hardwood floor |
In addition, the footings for the deck were concreted in, and there has been timber delivered for its construction.
What did we choose this week? Our biggest purchase was a couple of timber benchtops. We had originally wanted a timber benchtop for the powder room (which is a sink separate from the toilet and shower upstairs). The price and quality of the benchtops we found were so good that we purchased one for the laundry also as it is coming in a little cheaper than laminate (and we think will add some interest and warmth to the space too). Am happy to share the details of our supplier if anyone wants them!
Thanks for reading :-) Questions or comments welcome of course!
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