Doors in

South west end, lounge & main bedroom

All of the doors and windows (bar two) are now in.  It is amazing what a change this has made to the way the place feels.  I suppose adding the building wrap has helped too.  You can now tell what is solid and what will stay open, rather than guessing based on the myriad of frames lying around.  The glass should arrive this coming week, so we are not too far away from being weathertight (as the building wrap does give some weathertightness).

The concrete floors have also all been ground.  They've cut a couple of holes through the floor in the kitchen for the sinks, so you can now look straight down a storey!

North west end, dining/kitchen above car port

North east, dining/kitchen

It turns out that our shopping trip to Christchurch was ill-conceived.  We were fine (though shaken and stirred) and miraculously Mom & Dad suffered no damage at all.  However of course all the shops closed.   Thankfully we had taken Friday off work, so the trip wasn't completely wasted - going up on Friday night and turning around again would have been a killer!  We found some beautiful lights, and they weren't destroyed in the earthquake.  However the lighting shop found that its ceiling panels weren't properly fixed, so they lost pendants that they shouldn't have lost.  (Lights should arrive this week too!)  We did see some cool taps which were on sale, and we were going to go back on Saturday and buy them...  We didn't get to look (much) at extractor fans or curtains - there is just so much more choice in CHCH!  We were so fortunate though with the timing of the quake - the areas where we had been shopping on Friday were covered with fallen masonry.

Now we need to put some serious time into deciding Which Shade of White Paint [it is a question that necessitates capital letters].  And of course debating the Great Cladding Issue.

South east, back of en-suite and bedrooms