The carpenters will be able to get back in to put the beading round the edge of the floors, they have a couple of door to put on and then we really are down to fine tuning.
So here's a few pics of the changes downstairs over the last little while...
The lounge/sitting room/drawing room with (current) views of the clocktower, and french doors out onto the verandah (that's another phase, yet to be commenced!) and a connecting door through to the dining room...
...with another light fitting from Early Settler Recollections, and the faceted glass throws interesting patterns onto the painted walls...
...and with our reclaimed mantlepiece and a (gas) coal fire in homage to the Coal River and a major Newcastle industry!
The study still has to have the skirting boards 'tacked on' rather than being permanently fixed in place because one day there will be a floor to ceiling book case, as there should be in all good study/libraries!!
There's a powder room downstairs (all mod cons)...
...and a large kitchen with island bench, and a breakfast bar that divides it from part of the family room.
The splashback makes use of the floor tiles that we didn't use on the floor as they perfectly match the marble benchtops!
This picture is taken from the family room, to the left in this picture is the meals area which will have a large marble top table, also to match!
The cooktop (induction) is covered to protect it as the rangehood was installed.
So it really is starting to feel habitable....at last!
We'll be back up there in a couple of weeks ready to put on the main door furniture, including the old brass handles that we picked up in UK (currently on the mantlepiece in the dining room in case you spotted them in that picture), organise for the two back rooms to be carpeted, and make plans for the next phase...kitting out, and the support and retiling of the front 'patio'
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