These are two of my favourite views so far. First the one from the dining table (where the kitchen used to be) looking north to the study end of the Garden Room. The area with the low ceiling (2100mm) is where the kitchen will be.
Then looking in the other direction from the north:Do you like the temporary downpipes? And I have yet to ask about that piece of wood holding the whole thing up. It’s not in my set of plans. The cavities on the floor under each window are for the hydronic heating vents.

The shower in our ensuite bathroom will have a louvre window. I found it in the living room and was pretty excited to see a window with glass! And yes, it will be vertical. Stay posted. (Pardon the pun)

Here’s the north end of the new extended area. This is the outside view of the new window above the desk in the study. And more of the cladding…. The architect specified that the eaves should be clad in the opposite direction to what the builder thought was “normal”. The architect prevailed (he usually does) and I quite like the look that others would not expect. I guess that’s what we pay him for. Above is the underside of the eaves below the window in the first pic of this post.

2As things progress they have now removed the form work for the concrete walls around the tanks. Now they are setting up for the next wall which will actually be the side of the pool.
Meanwhile, the wild westerly wind in early late June blew the brush fencing panels right off the framework. The fencing man has been to look at repairing it, but tells me it’s likely to fall apart when they try to remount the panels. Brush fencing has a life of about 20 years (no one told me that before), but with about 150m or brush fencing, I’m not about to replace the lot. Maybe later.

So the builder has worked out why I needed to wear a beanie and a down jacket indoors during the winter. As they ripped off plaster here and there to move some power points (GPOs in architect lingo) they discovered a lack of insulation in the walls. Apparently this is a no-no and may have contributed to why the original builders in 1999 went broke. On further investigation, they identified very little insulation in walls they weren’t even going to touch. This entailed a very technical approach of smashing a hole in various walls. I haven’t bothered wondering who would have paid to have these walls repaired if there actually had been insulation in the walls. So now we get to add on more insulation, and then replace the plaster, then paint the walls. Ching ching again.