Jack up a house?!

It’s 4 years since we bought 85 Besham Parade, with the full intention of knocking it down! The random responses we got (especially from the Brits) gave us a giggle — not the normal thing to do when finally buying our first house! Well we gave her a little facelift to make her liveable and…

Just a shell

I know it’s early days, but at this point, I love our builder! His enthusiasm for our project is almost as big as mine (and you can guess how bouncy that is!), and determination to get it finished as quickly as possible is incredibly reassuring, given we’re now on the countdown to Christmas.

Show me the money!

We moved out in to the rental mid July. Finances had come back from the accountant, application was in with the bank, we know we can service the loan, builder was almost ready, it’s going to take us a few weeks to move in — let’s do this thing!

Why tell the story?

You know I’m slack on details….

My biggest regret about our move out to Brisbane 5 years ago (apart from not having bought Annabel another one of those rocky chair things!) is that I didn’t share the story as it happened. Ridiculous regret I know (apparently I was a…

One more trailer load

We thought we could stay in as they lifted the house — technically it’s possible. Obviously on the actual day of the lift we’d have to be out, but we wouldn't have to empty the house, just pack away the really fragile stuff. But, as the project got bigger, a couple of stages turned in to…

The hole-y floor boards…

One of the beautiful things about old Queensland homes is that they were built out of local timber, and they ran these gorgeous hardwood floor boards from one end of the house to the other in gorgeous straight runs of gorgeous craftsmanship. Ours are unusually skinny, hugely varied in…

Too much wall!

So excited to ride past the house — they put the framing up for the new upstairs walls! But — as I rode past I think the whole neighbourhood heard me shout “Noooooooo!” as my heart sank to the tarmac. Thankfully the boys have already gone home for the day! (After last week’s embarrassing incident…

Watch live (well… in fast forward…)

Not sure if I’ve posted this already or but here’s the link to the YouTube channel with Andy’s time lapse camera videos. A new one will go up each week (after Andy has snuck past the construction fence to climb a tree, plug in his laptop, download the images, stitch…

She’s Up!!!!!

Massive day — our little cottage is about 4m higher than it was this morning!

Half a dozen shirtless blokes, a massive jenga kit, bit of lube for a sideways shove (by hand!) & half a dozen car jacks…what could possibly go wrong?!