Tales From the Box

The generous but overly lethargic council of the Blue Mountains has finally approved our Development Application for the extension of our house. We have also recieved verbal approval from our finance provider, (the owner of our lives) Homeside. So once we have shuffled papers with our builder, finance holder it should be only a matter of weeks until our grand construction begins. Over that time i will take you through the history of our house – renovation stuff we have done – detailed plans for what we have proposed in our rennovation – plus loads of pics of houses and gardens that have inspired our reno!

Today we saw a return of the floor – the kruddy textures of the previous surface have been smoothed over (very Ponds Institure like) and covered with our lovely non-descript greeny, browny, grey-ey coloured tile.

Now for the cream on top of the pudding that is this bathroom reno.. – for the rest of the week – lighting, vanity, toilet (v. important), fixtures and finally a warm bath (sorry no podcast available for that…). Here is the best snap I could get tonight – tommorrow I will post a video.

Okay the bath is in! We opted for a classic styled bath, or as the brochure so eloquently put it – a ‘modern’ bath. What is modern anyway? Oh yes – modern refers to the modern era – a period which started in the mid 18th century. Oh – how specific! Considering that the ‘modern’ ye olde clawfoot bath was replaced with the ‘modern’ sleek space-aged fiberglass bath in the latter half of last century – I reckon that the brochure is fractionally broad with its categorising. But hey… it was probably written by junior, hypermodern, office temp..

Some previous box history. Here is the living room as we bought it – fireplace and enclosed – Dec2003;

and shortly after, open and emtpy Dec2003

with stuff but no kitchen… Feb2004

with kitchen and wife—Dec2005

Okay – a days work done. And a bathroom looking decidedly different. No water or structural damage to the walls which is always a relief, especially when the bathroom was in a fairly terrible condition. The floor is pretty thin now there isn’t tiles and cement. Tommorrow the pouring of the floor ! Huzzah for concete!