Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Garden studio takes shape

Slowly but surely a small hut has sprung up in our garden - yeh! And what fun it's been - what an amazing learning experience. Having never built anything before, each step of the way has involved lots of research, funny conversations ("so what exactly is a dwang?"), you tube videos, and best of all  trial and error (my favourite).

As of today 15 Jan, we mostly have the roof completed, and are moving onto installing the windows next, followed by the external cladding. Much to look forward to :-)

Here's a few pics of what we've been up to over the last month.

Original concept design
Developed design - state of the art architectural prowess from Nessi
Piles ready for concrete - yeh!

First pile - with sand stolen from Lucia's back yard
All piles concreted in - phew


Post xmas picnic - Mr Grey carries out another site inspection
YUM!


Concrete is so much fun
zzzzzzzzz


Ready to put a hut on top
Nessi measuring up

First wall going up - support from all the neighbours & friends has been awesome
South wall almost in place - double thumbs up from Adrian


East wall coming up
East wall in place
Bruce makes sure we're doing it properly

West wall sliding into place

Heeeaaavvvvvvve
North wall going up

There it is...Nessi runs for cover

Final check

Wow it kinda works

View from York St
A few days later - all wrapped up. Looks like a giant licorice allsort :-)

Ridge beam going in
Yukky bora stuff getting painted on the rafters. Nice to re-use some of our rimu timber from the old cottage


Mr Grey makes another site inspection. Nessi's bribes of "cat temptations" & milk are working well

Swiss import Lizzie maintains law & order on site, & makes a fine job of the window wrapping.

Plywood going on the rafters

Barge boards on - a tricky business getting those angles just so...don't look too closely :-)






No comments:

Post a Comment