Day 11 - The House

Part of the reason I'm here is to help Mike and Heather finish the interior of their new home.  The exterior shell, windows, doors and the interior walls and doors were done by a construction contractor but Mike and Heather opted to finish the interior and do the landscaping themselves.  Here are pictures of the house as it stands today.

Entering through the front door you look across the entry way and see the kitchen area.  That is the dishwasher to the left and behind the wood post on the right is the wood stove which will heat the house and provide hot water.

Still standing at the front door, the stairway to the second floor is on your left.  I think Mike is planing to build a coat closet and possibly some bookshelves under the stairway.

Walk into the kitchen area and turn right and you are looking at the living room area or as Kiwis call it, the lounge.

Walk into the living room area and turn right and you are looking at the dining room area. 

The entire wall on the left hand side of the dining room (north side of the house) is glass - double doors in the center and windows on either side.

The master bedroom has a sliding glass door opening on the north side of the house and I think Mike is planning to build a deck all along that side.

Opposite the sliding glass door in the master bedroom is a walk through closet and the door you see here leads to the master bathroom

Here is the master bath with a spa tub partially installed.


Upstairs are two bedrooms (one Mike will use as his office) and a bathroom with a shower.  I didn't take pictures of the upstairs but each bedroom has a sliding glass door which leads to a balcony which measures about 5' x 12'.  My bedroom balcony overlooks the orchard area on the west side of the house and the balcony off Mike's office overlooks the chicken and turkey enclosure on the east side.

Coming up the driveway, this is the view of the north side of the house.  The driveway will curve around to the left.  

This is the east side of the house.  The balcony is off Mike's office.  The double doors under the balcony we are using as the front door.  The single door to the left leads into the work room/garage.  The windows on the right are the dining room windows.

This is the south side of the house.  The two overhead doors lead to the workshop/garage area which runs the entire length of the back of the house.  The trench is for the sewer lines that will run from the Wee Mansion to the water treatment system which is to the left of the house, but you can't see it in this picture.  The pictures I posted earlier of its installation were taken from my balcony.

This is the west side of the house and the balcony is off my bedroom.  The blue enclosure under the balcony is a temporary storage area for the electrician.


So that's the house.


We just returned from dinner with Hamish, the man who supplies the Touchstones Mike and Heather still distribute.  We went to a Korean restaurant where no one was speaking English, yet the name of the restaurant was The Station - go figure.  We had beef, chicken, pork, and flounder, and 6 little side dishes that I'm not sure what most of them were but all were very tasty.  The dishes all had names that I could not pronounce let alone remember how to spell!  The food I could eat was really good but most of the dishes were way to spicy hot for me.  We had a wine that had a very fresh vegetable taste to it as opposed to a fruity taste.  It was very different but quite good.


So I'm off to bed.  More tomorrow.