All internal doors in

Hallway

The Builder has put in all of our internal doors now, including the one from the garage into the hallway.  So the hallway is starting to look like a hallway now - at least down one side! 

In the photo, you can see that Regan has painted a bit of the hallway ceiling too.  The first piece of white wall that you can see to the left is not, in fact, wall.  It is the door to Bedroom 3.  You can also see that the hallway steps up at the end - that is to the other two bedrooms.  The white "wall" at the end of the hall is the door to the Master Bedroom.  The framing down the right hand side of the hallway will all be clad in macrocarpa - just like the exterior of the house.

The Builder has now finished all of the MDF cladding, except for the bottom part of the stairwell (which can't be done until the stairs are in).  That means that the piles of cladding in the lounge are all gone now, and they've been able to remove the propping from the garage.

Lounge, south wall

It has been fantastic to be able to see the lounge as a room again, with proper walls and a space to walk through in the middle.  As you can see in the photo of the south wall, things are handily being stored in the tv cavity!  All the gaps that you can see in the photograph are doors or windows.

In the photo of the north wall, you can see the sliding door on the left is closed but the one on the right is open, so you can see through to the kitchen/dining room.  And between the two, you can just see the back of the stairwell.  (This photo is an update of one of last week's.)

Lounge, north wall

Regan has continued to work hard, going down every day after work and spending all week-end there.  It's been a little more difficult to quantify what he's been doing, as he has been doing a lot of the fiddly preparation work, which is hugely time-consuming.  Hopefully that means he'll start ripping through the actual painting soon!

In the kitchen, the Builder has lined the little cavity that the fridge/freezer, oven, microwave, pantry etc will all be contained in.  The two benches will run perpendicular to that wall.  In the photo, you can see through into the lounge, and the sliding door on the right is closed (to stop dogs playing mad chasing games from falling down the stairwell cavity!).

Kitchen, looking into the fridge/freezer cavity