Flow

There's lots of trendy "indoor - outdoor flow" housespeak these days. It does kinda make sense. Having a transition from your inside space to your outside space, & vice versa, feels quite nice. The external & internal become one :-). On a more practical level, we simply need somewhere to put our shoes when it rains - there is nothing more disappointing than stepping out of your lovely front door, toes all snug in their woolly socks, straight into a soaking wet croc. Hence our deck & verandah.

Like most of the hut it's a combo project - some new timber, some old - with our key donors being Rach, Marty & Eva's old house in Albert Tce (we swooped in & scavenged the deck the weekend before the demo crew arrived). We got the macrocarpa posts & beams from Musgroves - we would have been quite happy re-using old posts etc, but the new ones are quite nice :-)

Not long til we put the roof on & have a jolly good knees up to celebrate a whopper of a summer project!

Boggy conditions as the posts go in

Mixing cement, by hand, in the rain - SO much fun!!

Our wee bivvy is about to be dwarfed by a whopper verandah

Lizzie can't quite believe we roped her into this, but nonetheless seems to enjoy long days & hard manual labour...much like walking Te Araroa!

Criss cross stuff going everywhere

A swiss one finger salute? Crusty glove on a warratah

Nessi sets the dust flying as the tops come off the posts at the inaugural 3 York St woodchopping champs

Decking on, beams on - getting there

YIPPPEEEE!

Rafters on - just needs a roof

Hope it's REALLY strong

View from the NW

Cuppa tea & a cold sausage in the sun