December 18: Slab Poured Today

Well the slab was poured today - just in time for Christmas

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December 16: Slab preparation

Our slab is due to be poured tomorrow 

December 15: I can see some foundation excavations

November 13: Demoltion Photos

Our Bathroom

 

 

Kitchen

Lounge Room

November 9: Kitchen Removal

We plan to re-use the kitchen so had to remove it ourselves:

Doors off!

Now how do we get this out?

All gone!

Kitchen in storage

Project Info

Initially we intended to use Sunpower Design as our architect, but Andreas indicated he is stepping back a bit from the business, so we ended up with his associate, Kristine Sommerfeld who is now with Field Design Studio.

The brief was fairly broad, but mainly:
- give us an environmentally sensitive renovation.
- provide a couple of extra bedrooms upstairs.
- to not just be a box on the back of the house.
- have minimal encroachment into the back yard.

The builder we selected is DJW Building & Construction.

After about 9 months of design work, and another 3 of organisation, we are now under way!  Demolition started on 10 November 2014.

Time to start

Well after nearly 20 years it's time to renovate our c1915 home.  Ideally we want a finished product to not only suit us for another 20 years, but be as green as possible to give us low running costs and a pleasant house to live in.