Rear fence goes up

We used steel posts on this, since we already had steel i-beams in place for the retaining wall. It should last much longer this way - and less risk of damaging buried pipes, since no digging was involved

Landscaping Progress

Plants are now in.

Still some work to do on the lighting and the irrigation

Landscaping update

The driveway and front retaining walls are now completed, granite rocks installed, and the tiler has almost finished up all the bluestone paving at the front of the house, as well as all the capping on the retaining walls. Hoping to have this finished up this week.

The renderer (thanks to my brother-in-law), is going to render the retaining wall this week, and I've already started on the irrigation system.

Plants are booked in to arrive on Friday, so it's going to be a busy week when I'm not tied up with my day job.

Deck Tiling Begins

Just started tiling the pool deck

Kitchen progress

Marble counter tops were installed in the kitchen today, and Dad and I spent the last weekend installing the 2 x Qasair Range Hoods. These are each ~1.3M long, but given the height of the room and size of the kitchen, I think they make a great center piece.

 
Only one thing left - installing the cooktop to complete the kitchen

More Floorboards

More floor boards finally arrived last week (after a 2 month delay), and my dad, my wife and I managed to lay around 80m2 last weekend.... All up, that puts us at about 200m2 of american oak installed

We have another 100m to go, and will do as much as we can this weekend.

Good news is that the kitchen cabinetry gets installed tomorrow, and installation will start before the weeks out.

We also started moving in our shipping boxes from Seattle. I'm planning to move in on Monday.....looks like a long way to go, but we're in the home stretch! We'll finish things up as we live in it.