BEFORE: The entire completed house is handed over without any floorings. You are looking at concrete floors of one bedroom
AFTER: We decided to hire some tradesmen to install and supply laminated floors to all four bedrooms
We decided to hire tiling contractors to tile the the rest of the house ie kitchen, meals, family, rumpus and the living room. Boxes of tiles on the concrete floors.
DRIVEWAY: We decided to go for stencilled concrete driveway and chose burgundy colour to match the roof. Excavation work to level the driveway and to remove 10 tonnes of excess soil
Truck pouring concrete onto the driveway
After a lenghty process of laying the patterned stencils onto the wet concrete ... tadaaa ... hours later this is what it looks like
Still lots of work to be done .. we have not begun to touch the backyard yet and to lay the lawn on the bare soil at the front and sides of the house. That'll come later after the fences are up, I hope. The interior of the house is bare ... no furniture & curtains/blinds yet! We are hoping to grab a few bargains during the Australia wide stocktake sale in June (if our bank a/c hasn't run dry by then, haha!!).
Now that we have got the major & important works done already, we're concentrating on preparing for our baby .. just a month and a bit more to go. Only set up the baby cot last night. My stomach's feeling so tight lately ... like a full blown balloon. I tire easily too - even scooping styrofoam beans into bean bags was like hard laborious work. I am so not used to having such little stamina and energy and a BIG stomach. I am pretty nervous about labour especially if it's a natural birth *GULP*, we'll see. It has to happen somehow.
Our lives will be changed forever - that's another nervous feeling, hehehe as we've both enjoyed our freedom so very much over the years. But I know, we can resume our freedom once baby/children grow up and what's even more fun is that they'll be able to join us in our travels. Gee, don't I plan too far ahead??! Well, every reality begins with a dream, hehehe.
