Doors and dramas

Yay we finally have a front door! And don't be put off by the fact it is green... that's just the primer ready for painting. The kids thought it was pretty cool, we had lots of games of 'knock knock' ... 'oh who's visiting?' and so on and so on... it was a lot of fun. We don't have our glazing done on the sides yet so they are just boarded back up again until we can get that done (hopefully soon!). Note the cheeky little face peeking through the glass...

Cheeky Monkey #1!

Painting is going really well, both undercoats on walls/ceiling/cornice are finished in the following rooms: kitchen, dining, family, butlers pantry, main bedroom, ensuite, toilet and first coat finished in bathroom. Only laundry and second coat in bathroom to go and we'll be ready to start on some top coats ... can't wait to see some colour on the walls!! And oh yes the dramas - well right at the end of the day (this should have been a huge big red sign DON'T DO WHATEVER IT IS YOU'RE ABOUT TO DO!) I decided that we should undercoat our beautiful new front door (why: cos the Bunnings Lady told me I should -hrmph!). Anyway I got out the gloss small nap roller and happily started applying the normal primer/undercoat ready for the gloss door paint (why: cos the Bunnings Lady told me I should - grrrrrr!). Reason for doing it at the end of the day: so it would be protected until I was able to get back and continue painting (probably a week). Anyway, if anyone has ever tried to apply normal water-based paint to a shiny primed door you will know my pain - crappy crappy crappy application of paint. Not sure if it was the roller, or the paint, but whatever the reason it looked awful. And I was all of a sudden in a super bad mood looking at my shiny (albeit green door) that now looked terrible. No photos of that I was waaaaay too grumpy. The front door!!!! Why didn't I practice on an internal door first??

Luckily Bikeman is the voice of reason (we'll just sand it back, it will be right don't worry, it's probably just the paint on the shiny primer) and I eventually eased back out of my slump. But needless to day I'm now packing my dacks about painting the rest of the door.

The house made of bricks

It's done! We have bricks :) ... and they look great. The brickies finished last Thursday and we are really happy with the result. The front of the house ... from left to right, garage opening, front door and 2 front windows.

View from standing at the alfresco, looking back towards the street. The window is the main dining room window to the side.

Standing at the front of the block, looking back towards the dining room. Sliding door to rumpus on left.

The kids and cousins playing in the 'pool'! Gumboots are a wonderful invention... Looking at the study and Blue's windows.

Looking at the alfresco area and sliding door to the living room. I don't think I've ever taken so much notice of window sills in my life!

Next... Chippy 'Beam me up' and Bikeman will be squaring up the frame on Friday (well actually BMU will be and Bikeman will be installing the sliding door furniture) for all the sliding doors in the place. Bank should be out sometime this week to do the lockup valuation, we spent the weekend nailing up masonry board on the front door (so our beautiful front door doesn't get damaged or pinched) - thanks to Bikemans new toy (the golden nail gun ... is it really gold plated??).

Completed .... We installed the laundry door which looks fabulous. Garage entry door painted up and ready to be screwed on. (Pictures to follow later). Had to plane the laundry door a little as it didn't quite fit, borrowed Pop's electric planer wooo hoooo if I was a carpenter I'd want me one of those babies. Did a great job of planing it without looking like a hack job - very professional. I can tell you I was pleased that we ran out of time to stain the door before installing it - that would have been a waste as we needed to plane it! Also the electrician was in last week doing the roughing in. They got up to 1.4km of electrical wire then stopped counting (but kept installing). Geeeeeez! Yes we know everyone, it's a bloody big house!!

Stay tuned for 'Days of the House' for more stories..... real live reality blogging!

Oh and please.... if anyone would like to become a follower of my blog please do so. There's a little section over to the right. I added this 'gadget' the other day and I'm feeling a little unloved as it looks like we don't have any friends!