My first house and the renovations that have been done to it.
Pre-purchase:
- A shot of the front of the House, with Real Estate agent, Maria, out the front.
- Looking down the Driveway to the Garage.
- Looking down the Driveway to the front.
- The Back Entrance to the house.
- The Back Yard.
- The Shed, which is right down the back of the yard. Both the garage and the shed will be knocked down to build a new garage down the back, giving us more room and sun all year round on the grass.
- A shot that we got from a neighbour showing the House as of December 1989. Note the verandah.
Post purchase:
- Front of the House with sold sign. Notice none of the frilly shit along the edge of the verandah?
- Another closer shot of the front of the House.
- Another angle, looking down the Driveway, replete with the Troopy.
- How lazy is Madison?.
Renovations, Part 1. (The front door)
- The Old Door.
- The Old Door from out side.
- One more shot with the screen door shut. Notice the New Verandah Light. This gives you an idea as to what our inspiration for the renovations of the new house will be. Clean line, minimalist.
- The New Door. BTW, those numbers are new as well. The door was fitted by Doors Plus. If you want a recommendation for a door place, they are not it. They botched up so many things.
- Another shot showing the Clean Lines which we are trying to achieve.
- A shot from inside of the New Door. Notice how tragic, the previous owners tastes were?
Renovations Part 2. (The home office / study)
- A shot of the Old Verandah which they enclosed.
- A shot of the Tragic Cupboards that they left for us. Can't complain too much as we did not have any cupboards, so they will have to do until we renovate the master bedroom.
- Now the fun begins. We ripped up the carpet (note the fibro floor) and I am Removing the Skirting Boards.
- Pulling down the Lining. You can see where the old window was.
- The Lining removed around the door.
- The Old Entrance.
- Removal of the Weatherboards over the old window.
- Removal of all the Weatherboards and the Plaster in the study.
- Looking out of the study after all the Linings have been removed. Look at all the coal dust, that came down with the ceiling!
- Looking up into the Roof Cavity. Notice they didn't even put saking under the tin. Yet another problem to fix!
- Our Carpenter (Dan. Who is a fellow Architecture student and a friend) has placed a Hybeam (The yellow beam) up into the rafters. This will allow us to drop the rafters in the Study and raise the ceiling up to the same height as the front room. Which we will be doing through out the house, as there are three roof levels.
- All the Study Rafters are removed.
- The new Rafters are going in. We opted to stay with hard wood. You can clearly see the difference in ceiling heights, between the study and the Bathroom. Jude and Dan are tying up the wires.
- Here you can see the dodgy job that the former occupants did. There was water damage to the old Horse Hair Plaster. So what did they do? Lowered the ceiling (Evident at the end of the hallway) and covered it up!
- Another shot of the Old Hallway Ceiling. You maybe wondering why the wall has been removed at the top right hand side. Well that was done as we are going to put glass and Louvre's up there to allow natural light to light up the tall hallway.
- A shot from the study to the Hallway. You can now see how much window space there will be. For interest, the ceilings will be 3.2m high and the window / louvre's will be 600mm high.
- Jude cleaning up the mess left from removing the Ceilings in the hallway.
- More Rafters going in.
- The Rafters are in, but still need to be aligned and nailed.
- Another shot of the Rafters in the hallway. Sorry, I didn't realise I took so many shots of the rafters.
- Now you can see how high the Ceiling will be. Yes I know, another bloody rafter shot!
- Here you can see the Gap in the Floorboards. This is where the old door tread was. This runs right across the room and opens to the dirt below. Also on the internal study wall they did not have a bottom plate (Which I believe is common in older houses), so we will need to fill that in. Now we know why the house is so cold in winter.
Renovations Part 2. (The home office / study) cont...
- Frame work is completed to close in the former verandah.
- Another angle of the Frame work.
- Here you can see where the Fibro has been removed, revealing the even older verandah underneath.
- The old door with new Frame work, ready to be enclosed.
- The New door opening.
- Our electrician cleaning up the Wiring.
- A shot showing the neater Wiring.
- Some new Wiring in the walls for power points. 7 double powerpoints will be installed.
- Another shot of more powerpoint Wiring.