Let the Frame Up Begin

As most of you will know its been an usual week here in Melbourne as we have had the Melbourne Cup, in which we lost a massive $5, but also here in Melbourne the building industry takes a few days off, namely Monday through to Wednesday. So it was quite surprising to find our house had been framed, well minus the roof joists and the window frames, but we have the wall frames up.

It was great to walk around and really get a sense on how big our place is and where everything will go.

We were surprised by the size of the rumpus area as it’s a bit bigger than we thought as is bedroom 3. We thought our soon to arrive 3rd child was going to be jibbed compared to their 2 brothers but in the end all 3 of the kids rooms are pretty similar in size.

The best money we spent was getting more cupboard space in the kitchen and putting in bi-fold doors between the lounge & the meals area, you can see right through from the front of the house right to the rumpus at the back.

We also met our next door neighbours and they were really nice. I spent a good half hour chatting so it would appear that we are doing all right on the neighbours’ front, as you know everyone needs good neighbours!!!!

They did tell me something disturbing in that my internet options maybe restricted to 1 and that is Telstra Wireless, something I am not happy about as I don’t wish to pay a kings ransom each month for internet access. I will have to do some digging there but for mine its bloody ridiculous that new areas can be developed without adequate infrastructure for ADSL as a minimum. To get a Telstra Wireless account that will cover our current usage I will be paying 80% more per month, highway robbery if you ask me.

Anyway, below are the photos from the visit, feel free to click on any photo to get a better look and you can click on the plans on the right hand side menu to get a better idea of the floor plan

Now next weekend is a big one as we move out of our “old” house and into the in-laws until our “new” house is built. We do the move next Saturday and the removalists come on Sunday to place our stuff in storage.

We then have a week to clean up and we settle Friday the 20th and for the first time in well over 6 years we will be living with our parents, this time with two kids. I do wonder if Mrs B’s parents really know what they are in for!!!!