The Day has Finally Dawned!

It's finally all happening. Tomorrow, the footings will be prepped, inspected by the certifier and made ready for the slab to be poured next week.  Of course, this all happens on the day I'm also manning a cake stall at a local buy swap and sell. LOL excellent planning on my behalf.

So just to clarify, this is the first part of the building process that we start tomorrow. "The Shed". This is stage 1 and where we'll live for probably the next 12 - 18 months while we work and play and find the time and finances to start the house.  The plan was always to have minimum debt and do as much of the work ourselves to minimise costs. So this will take time. But not to fear, "The Shed" will be made very comfortable. In the design, there is a permanent room that will eventually be our work office, a proper bathroom and loo, and benches and washing machine and laundry tub will give us a pretend kitchenette for now that will later be Rick's workshop and Kiah's horse blanket/dog blanket washing area.  The floor will be sealed, and obviously the walls lined and ceilings in to not only keep us comfy while we're in there, but for when it turns back into a workshop (a man needs to be comfy in his man cave).

I guess it gets a bit real now. We need to organise the septic treatment system, order the plumbing fittings, tiles and oh my lord, select colours. We want "The Shed" to compliment "The House" and this hasnt been an easy task for me. Normally, I can pick colours in my sleep. But for some reason, I had a real issue with it this time. I don't know whether it was because I was restricting myself to Colorbond colours, or that I was trying to do something different but I had a heck of a time choosing.  This weekend, that will be done. I'm going to contact a local Colorbond rep to see if the main wall colour has been installed locally so I can go view it for myself. I find this the best way because trying to select colours on a computer screen tends to lead to a total and epic fail as the colours simply are not true. So if you are having issues with your colours, talk to your paint specialists or as I'm doing Colorbond experts and ask them if they can recommend where you can see your colour in real life. If its paint, you can also talk to your friendly painter, and get them to paint a board for you. One more tip, if the colour is for a wall, dont look at it in a horizontal position. Go and prop it up, put it outside (if its an external wall) and stand back and look at it in all lights before you decide.

Well that's me done for the day, I'm off to prep my cup cake toppers for Saturday.  In the meantime, I've made a little video of our journey so far.  Hope you like it :)

Donna.