Front of House is finally taking shape and so is the garden Pool to be filled this week Planters are in place so bamboo is going in Paving to be finished and then the green stuff grass

So good to see the game changers being installed - the curved glass window, the spiral staircase and alas the kitchen and my bath.

You'll never guess my theme colour, not to mention the Pantone colour of the year - Greenery

Slowly but surely it's all coming together, the painting is nearly finished, toilets are going in along with louvre windows and we've painted our mother of a boundary fence!

It's all in the detail and doing things a tad differently Lots of drawing, measuring, checking and choosing finishes and then the best part - colours!

It's a wood like tile - so no maintenance! Underfloor heating and cooling - it's a pretty sophisticated system being laid So the heating system we are putting in is pretty novel - basically it's water that is pumped through these hoses

Yes at last we are up to finishes - now this is where I come in - yippee!!

Prepping for tiling to start - looking forward to more colour and detail (I'm over timber and this green)! Underfloor heating is in - gotta have warm tootsies in winter in Melbourne. One layer of tanking Another layer of screed Final layer of tanking No...

All my worker boys in action - rendering, attaching the metal cladding, exsulite, bricks and then best of all plastering!!!

Wee little crane for our glass - don't drop it - hold tight - P L E A S E !!! We are using Viridian double glazed SolTech for most of the west facing windows (to keep that some heat out) and double glazed Light Bridge for the north and rest. The key...

View looking back at house from pool (and Annabel in a boot!)