Some trusses

Yay, Laurence has been able to start putting the trusses up!  He's done the front and back of the dining room, as you can see here.  The area under the truss closest to us will be a big sliding glass door.  You can see the big east-facing window to the right of the door area.  And there's also a big window to the left, which will look into the open-plan kitchen.

Laurence has spent most of the week squaring the frames, and so the place is full of diagnonal temporary propping.  It is a bit of a maze at the moment because of  that!

The second photo is that view down the passage (this time from the window back toward the master bedroom), but now showing all of the propping that has been put up.

He has also put up part of the end wall of the lounge room.  That bottom bit of the wall isn't missing - it will be a window so that the wall appears to "float" above the floor.  It's amazing how even putting up part of that wall has changed the volume of the room.

They've also put up the scaffolding across the front of the house, which makes it look huge!  The architect advises that this won't come down until the windows are in and the cladding is on.

Framework and more Blue Steel

Look, a view from INSIDE the house!  It's a view taken from the end of the Master Bedroom, looking down the hallway, with the bedrooms, bathrooms etc on the right and the lounge on the left.  And yes, that will be a window on the end of it.  No, I don't know why the framing is pink.

 Picture 2 shows that you can see the whole house now!  The master bedroom is closest to us, with the "living block" at the front, by the car.  The boundary runs straight up from where the services are at the road.


You can also see that we've got some more blue steel, to hold up the large spans of roof.

In photo 3, you can see Leta standing in Bedroom 3 - giving some
 idea of the roof/window/door heights.

 Being able to walk in it has yielded some surprises - like the architect has changed the layout of one of the bedrooms, without informing the architect's wife...  But surely there have to be some points to her for noticing the change?

No real reason, just over-excited

There's no real reason for this post.  I'm just feeling over-excited by the building process and it is too dark after work to take any new shots!  So here is a picture from last Saturday - the site from a distance.