Acoustic panels

Kitchen/dining acoustic panels

So it's been a dead couple of weeks.  The builder was off-site for 1.5 weeks, installing a kitchen for someone else.  Argh!

But he is back on site now, and has been fired up putting in the acoustic ceiling panels that we so lovingly completed.  We found a quicker way of sanding the grooves in the panels, so that moved it along for us.  The Architect wasn't overly happy with the installation of the kitchen/dining panels.  He'd already "stopped" a lot of the screws when he realised that!  So he's had a word, and the lounge looks great.

And the builder still reckons that he will have it all lined for Christmas.  Please, please, please.... The Germans next door, who only started a few months ago, will be in in two weeks!  But the house won't be complete, and given that Number Two is due imminently, they have got a lot of motivation to be there.

Staining the plywood cladding at the back of the house

We (Regan) did some work staining the back of the house.  We've got an awesomely thick black Resene stain.  It's going on rough cut plywood, and it looks like velvet almost!  It is incredibly black.