Tales From the Box

BRDAY+13

We have walls! Or at least the faint wooden outlines of them. Yesterday and today, the framework for our downstairs external walls was erected. We now have a somewhat faint outline in which to start imagining our two story box (i know – two storeys is hard to get used to – ‘box on stilts‘ has a certain mountain panache).

The walls have been masterfully incorporated into the overall structure of the our existing house on stills – with special care being paid to the metal posts holding the house up. The builders (namely Bryan) is weaving the walls under beams – between bearers, around where the windows have been planned. Its just a mass of wood of the moment – but to us forms the skeletal foundation of The Box.

Plumbers/electricians will be here tomorrow for whats known in Lower Blue Mountains circles as The Great Untangling (other wise known in far off Nordic countries as the Erinomainen Emission Messias or Den Stor Mot Messina).