Retrospective
My best ideas are always the stolen ones. I thought I’d do a retrospective of the old house. Photos enhanced using Google magic to make it look more sentimental. So that’s the old place, bring on the new one!
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Kitchen Revisited
Work on the demolition has stalled. We had one exciting day of activity, then nothing. They said they hope to finish by the end of next week. Meanwhile, I thought I’d post about the kitchen again. As you may remember from this post, I’ve been quite overwhelmed by the kitchen …
Building neurosis – cornices
Our demolition started on Friday! First stage is stripping the house of salvageable materials. This stage will take a couple of days, and then they’ll send in the bulldozer (probably on Wednesday). The old house had decorative cornices – nothing too fancy, and certainly not worth getting upset over. But …
Contract signed!
Break out the champagne, we have signed the building contract! We’re now officially in more debt, unless the bank decides not to give us the money. The signing took about an hour. The builder went through the schedule and explained a few things, which we more or less already knew …
The demolition is happening!
Just got a phone call from the demolition company, saying that they wanted to start the demolition on Thursday! Eep! Sudden flurry of activity – a phone call to my parents as my dad is supposed to move out the dishwasher. Plus I got a phone call from a lady …
Change of relationship
We had a “group meeting” today, with the builder (Peter and Julie) and architect and us, to talk about next steps. We’re at the point that we don’t anticipate any more structural changes, so everything else can, if we want, be done at prestart. We’re keen to progress onto contract …
Interior design consult #2
Today, I had a consultation with two interior designers that I’d met at Homebase Expo, Tucker & Negus. They charge a standard rate for their interior design service, but you get both of them! Which is great because they sometimes differ in their opinions, so you often get two sides …
Final draft plans
I got an email from the architect’s new assistant on Tuesday, in which she said that they had received the updated costings from the builder (we’d asked for some clarification on breakdowns), and the architect was to check them and send them to us by Thursday. Well, given our previous experiences with …
Demolition approved!
We’ve been fairly busy preparing for the demolition, so I haven’t had much time to sit and type. But things have been progressing, here’s what’s happened since the last update: Turns out Stirling doesn’t need the site plan for demo. Got a copy of the title from Landgate. There was …
Planning and demolition update
OK so apparently the planning application, even though it’s online and has been allocated an application number, hasn’t actually been allocated to a person for processing. That will apparently take 5 weeks. Then I see in the paper that the state government is intending to change the planning laws so that those …
