Ceiling panels

Bracing and ceiling in dining room

This week, Laurence has been putting up the ceiling battens, lining the ceilings with the ceiling batts and then putting up some of the ceiling gib.  He's perhaps 1/3 of the way through.  For me, the ceilings have made the room smaller again (at least initially) despite the fact that the ceilings are ridiculously high - three metres in some places!  I think that once I get used to them, the rooms will expand out and get bigger again.

The Architect has also now had to spend some working out the layout of the acoustic panels.  They've been sent off to be machined.  I understand that it is all done by computer.  We are having acoustic panels in the lounge and dining room, as otherwise the glass and concrete combination means that HFD could be far too noisy (like an annoying restaurant).

The fire, wrapped & stored in the garage

A little bit more bracing has gone up now too, so we have bracing in the dining room, bedroom 3, a couple of panels on the stairwell, in the laundry, in the dressing room and in the master bedroom.  This means that I can't see all the way through the house now, so I do have to keep reminding myself that I won't always be able to stand in the bathroom and see the sea!  As bedroom 2 is between the dressing room and the laundry (and its ceiling has been done), it is starting to feel a bit more like a real room.

The plumber/roofer (I still don't understand why they are a combined trade in New Zealand) has been in this week and has put in the chimney flue in the lounge for our little Studio fire.  It sits about 3/4 of the way into the room, off on the right.  Eventually it will form part of the room divider, separating the lounge and library.  For the next few years, it'll just hang out in the middle of the room.  Regan reckons that we'll be able to boil a kettle on top of it!