After 18 months of planning, demolition work finally began on 6 December 04:
the first step of a five month program of renovations, which will see our home transformed.

This page charts progress on the renovations (latest pictures at the top).

   
May 2005 - Back in business.  Still a few things to be done eg the kitchen splashback.

 
The first bedroom is now a sitting/sewing room (C) and we have a fab study in the attic (R).

   
Late April - painting underway (L); the new deck and seat takes shape (R)

 
9 April - new gas fire, floor boards secured and kitchen cupboards (before poly-spraying).

 
2 April -

     
When we told Jos (Dave's boss) that we needed a shed for the bikes and gardening gear, he said "don't buy one, I'll help you build one."  
Well, one Easter later we have a shed alright, fabricated from the ground up in Jos's workshop at Mt White then trailer-ed down and erected on-site.  It's dark green now but is still rather large.  Maybe the fact that Jos is 2.1m tall has something to do with it.

   
27 Feb - Gibrocking underway, while outside the back of the house/deck is now rendered.

 
19 Feb - Wow: a roof!  Anyone for a bath?

 
13 Feb - Our new attic room gets insulated.  Bricking gets underway on the new rear section

  
1 Feb - Just before the concrete pour.

 
15 Jan '05 - The wine "cellar" (OK let's call it a pit) and our alfresco toilet (luckily for our neighbour the builders threw up some walls around it)!

  
November 04 - Dave rips into the old decking. December -  No walls, no roof: devastation after week one.

  
The move out and the view from our bedroom at our temporary digs in the suburb of Clontarf. 
"Why are we renovating in Fairlight again?"