On the Other Side of the World
In the midst of construction on your house, it’s best to stick around, visit the site regularly and be on hand for issues that arise. It is not, generally speaking, the best time to go on vacation.
Despite the warnings to heed this advice, we decamped to New Zealand for a two week visit to Brent’s family. Although it was difficult to tear ourselves away from the gripping construction drama (and hand over control to our builder), we are confident things are in good hands and from the latest word received, all is going according to schedule.
So, until we return in a couple of weeks, here are some recent photos of the on-going evolution of our build. We’ll try to update these as we receive them.
The tile in the media room has been lifted to reveal the dirt floor underneath. The tile will be taken away for cleaning and then relaid on a new concrete floor that will arrive in a month or so.
A few trees in the rear garden are coming down so work can start on the digging of the swimming pool. Dug by hand, the process starts early in construction as it takes a while to complete.
Looking from the kitchen, the sole sour orange tree left standing looks great, framed by the south door.
With so much demolition occurring all at once, it’s often hard to know what room we are looking at when we review our photos. This is the new kitchen (we think), stacked with concrete tile and metal windows recovered from an adjacent building where the kitchen used to be.
