Framing the House

The house frames were delivered around 11am on Friday October 18th.  Usually they arrive about 7am but due to the concrete still being poured I had them put back a few hours.  With a large pumping rig and concrete trucks going in and out it would have been a logistical nightmare to have the frames delivered in the middle of all of that.

Starting the lift off of the frames.

First package has landed safely.

Termite-resistant wood, hence the color.

The Harkaway framing team arrived very early Monday morning, October 21st.  The visibility was low but at least it wasn't raining.

It was a very foggy day out at Gisborne on the 21st so as Connor and I approached the farm after school we couldn't see anything until we were nearly there.  Then out of the mist was the shape of our house.  In just one day they had all the stud work in place, still to be 100% secured together, but there.  It was a fantastic sight.

Standing at the left hand front corner of the house.  The front and side here have a wrap-around 2.4m deep veranda.

The back of the house.  To the left is the box bay window meals area and the box bay on the right hand side is the large rumpus room.

Connor running across the garage slab.  This side of the house is the utility side, so not as interesting as the rest of the facade.

Looking at the proportions of the house and garage.  The garage is quite big.  Steve and I decided that we didn't want the typical large shed on the farm.  What would we do with it?  So we decided to have a larger garage and put the tractor in there.

I hadn't taken 2 steps inside the house when I was on the phone to Steve so he could enjoy the excitement too.  This is the family room at the back of the house.  There will be an open fire place positioned between the 2 double hung windows.  On the right hand side is a lovely picture window looking down the valley.

Playing with the timber cut offs in the kitchen area.  The pipes sticking out of the floor are for the island bench.  

Looking down the lovely wide hall way.  I think is it 1.6m wide.  

Looking out a doorway to the veranda from the rumpus room. This door faces the front of the house and there is a matching one facing the back of the house.  I love being able to get outside to the garden as easily as possible.  As there is a lot of work to do before I can say we have a garden easy access is a good thing.