Exterior Painting Finished Chiminey up

Well the exterior painting is finished, with the house now nestled into its jungle of overgrown grass.

Of course trying to cut lawns with building going on has been an impossibility.

The new chimney is up and puts the old one to shame so will need to replace that, of course the recent storm has done a bit of work on the old one as it now sits on a lean.

After 7 months we move back in!

There are still a few things to do around the house but the painting on the outside is finished and we move back in!

Looking West, now I need to mow the lawns!

The sliding doors open to reveal the living space and out to the mountains

As you approach the house and the front door,

Looking out to the NW up to the Mountains

The nook with the stunning wallpaper! Currently the Art storage facility

The entrance way

As you walk through the entrance to reveal the Lounge

The front door, check out the Tui doors!

The Entrance

I have been so looking forward to the light shades going up!

Still another 3 to go up but we really love them!

The Launch of Hapuku Kitchen

As many of you may know we launched Hapuku Kitchen at the Kaikoura Seafest on the 1st October.
Here are a few snaps of the site and the queues for the Paella.
Also check out Ken and Barbie in their outfits taking a bite out of the Masterchef cookbook.

Ken and Barbie, they had this outfit on all day!

The tent!, check out the signs to the right

The Masterchef table

The product table

The Master at work

Even Hazel got into the swing of it dealing with the Money.

Painting is finished and final bits are now done

The final bits just seem to take such a long time!!!

The new wallpaper goes up, it looks amazing!!

The interior wall with external weatherboard

Whilst we await the lamp shades to go up the Kitchen is now operational! Yahoo!

It all starts taking shape

It is fast an furious as the final element so the build come together

The bookcases are in, painting and ceiling finished

Rayburn (AGA) awaits its final move into position with the radiators

The colors go on the Pantry

Lighting, handles taps all go on

Still no water but the plan is by the end of the week.

Kitchen & Butlers Pantry go in, a week to go mmmm yeah right!

 Looking at main kitchen bench with view through to butlers pantry

Stainless Bench, looks small at this angle but is 6m long

 

Butlers Pantry, lots of cool space

Ceiling finished, don't worry the colour is coming!

Seating in the nook for chilling out by the fire

Wallpaper for the nook!! It will look stunning!

 

Painting Starts, under coat goes on. Counting down the days!!

Well the build is largely complete with the painting started. It is blimmen white but dont worry the colour will come.

The spouting goes up!

The first coat goes on the ceiling

The kitchen goes in along with the Rimu drapery counter that is now our bench

View out the new Kitchen Window

Finally the clouds have broken and sun shines through to dry out the paddocks and site.
Lots of progress and now is a logistic dance as the painters and the gib stopper work around the sparky and kitchen install guys.

Restored Haberdashery counter goes in (4.5m long!!)

Andrew putting in the new kitchen goes in.

Looking from the Driveway to the front door

Looking into the sliding doors that lead out onto the Garden

Out of the open doors onto the deck on a sunny day

The boys hard at it

Battens go up and decks get laid

Counting down the days 3 weeks to go

 

We thought we might keep the Beige colour of the battens....mmmmmm maybe not

Building Decks in the Rain. Are they Mad!

The exterior of the house is pretty much finished, the boys started on the decks

 

We have reused the old exterior Weatherboard as interior lining in the hallway. 

The final amount of gibstopping occurs before they start to paint in the nook.

The exterior decks start, with all the rain and snow. who would want to be a builder in winter!

The builders have their own entertainment when they give the dogs stale sandwiches