Once again I'm behind on the house progress, so here's quick catch up. The brickwork got underway after another brickie was found. Apparently the first one decided to reduce his hours after his wife got a better paid job!

The interior doors went in - this is the pantry.

And then there's these lovely double doors with windows so everyone can get a good view of the vacuum cleaner. Oops! Someone stuffed up. They have now been replaced with solid doors.Next step was insulation. It turned out the New Zealand product would not be available for two weeks, but we could get an Australian product of the same R rating straight away - and $400 cheaper. How does that work? We went for the Aussies.

The ceilings went in next (the green is the bathroom - water resistant Gib board...
and the artist admires the raised ceiling in the studio.
The handover date has been delayed a week - now looking at 8 August. It is mid winter and we've had some really nasty weather, so it's disappointing that we won't have our warm spacious new house for a while yet, but at least we can see progress.

We've also done some work on landscape plans and fencing - which involved a lot of standing around in the mud in a freezing Southerly - no photo's of that!