First Floor

The first floor is nearly completed, the roof trusses, roof and the windows will be completed by next week (you can see the windows on the ground in front of the house, waiting for the locals to help themselves):

Scaffolding around the house to prevent falls:

You can see our neighbour's house in the background which will probably be finished by Christmas:

Looking down the north side towards the acorn tree which will be removed soon:

From the first floor in the master bedroom, looking into our neighbours backyard (fortunately no large windows on this side):

Looking up the hill towards one of the new houses in our subdivision:

My Dutch husband convinced me that we should invest in double glazed windows which are standard in Europe.  Although expensive, we will save on energy bills by helping to keep the cold out in Winter and the heat out in Summer (our Melbourne Winters are quite mild in comparison with Europe, averaging about 5-16 degrees celcius, however our Summers can be extremely hot and range from 25-47 degrees celcius).


FOR THOSE that read our Blog "AUGUST NEWS":

There are no winners for guessing what the black animal was that we saw at Wilsons Promontory.

Cees from the Netherlands thought it was just a regular moggy.

I am still searching for the answer, but our guess is that it is a possum.

Jo

Finished House

This is a picture of what our house will look like (hopefully by May 2010) - with a few differences.  The bricks will be chocolate brown; the roof grey colourbond; window frames and garage door ivory - and the front door will be a deep red like this one:

Lady in Red, Commodore and shrubbery not included!!

Jo