Hi
There
This
blog has been set up to track the progress of our renovation at 21 Golfers Pde
in Kiama Downs NSW. In March 2014, we moved permanently into the house we
purchased in Golfers Pde way back in 2007. It's a two story place with the main
living area on the top floor and a self contained flat on the lower floor.
The
flat has two bedrooms, a living area and full kitchen and a bathroom/laundry - the perfect guest/family/friends retreat.
Upstairs was pretty representative of the time the house was built - back in the late
1970's. If you recall that era, you'd be familiar with Laminex kitchen
benchtops and woodgrain laminate cupboards, a three-way bathroom with shower
and an old steel pressed bath and very old fashioned everything everywhere you
look.
The Before Photos
The
house from the front. Note the fluted concrete columns supporting the verandah
roof, the ornate filigree railing and the arches to the doorways. Hmm...simply gorgeous!
The
exterior bricks are to die for and unfortunately the powder-coated aluminium
windows - modern for the time it was built - now are characterised by flaking
paint and perished rubber seals around the glass.
Inside pics of the upstairs....
Above - the three-way bathroom - three rooms inside one bigger room...genius
Above - the main living area
Left - the ultra-modern laundry. Not!
The Reno - Day 1 - September 10th, 2014
Chris the builder arrives and so starts a time of jackhammers and brick saws. The first to go is the rather strange enclosed tunnel-like walkway, our bridgehouse that spans the chasm between the main house and the retaining wall holding back the backyard.
The bridgehouse - the plants that grew in a tangled jungle to the right of the structure (where the tree-fern stump is) are gone to good homes or replanted in the back garden.
What's left of the bridgehouse - a pile of bricks and rubble.
The brick piers are in to support the bearers. Termite barrier film (orange sheeting) is down and we're ready for the joists to go in.
Day 14
Chris at work putting in the joists prior to the drainage being roughed-in and the floor going down.
Day 16
A new building material that Chris is using for the first time - roll out insulation - a thin layer of insulating foam between two layers of fireproof aluminium foil.
Termite resistant green tongue particleboard flooring is going
on top.
