All in all, it's just another brick in the wall

The word of the day is progress.  An awful lot of progress, truth be told.  "What sort of progress" I hear you ask?  Bricks.  An abundance of bricks which are quickly being assembled to create something vaguely reminiscent of our house.  Although it was difficult to imagine what the bricks we selected at Studio M would eventually look like when scaled to the size of a house, we are so far quite impressed with our choice.  Having been out there several times, it's been great to watch the brickwork progress from a half a metre at first viewing to now be all the way to the roof.

The back of the house

Sare at the entrance

The al fresco side

Looking through the garage at the bricks which have since been added to the house

Our Al Fresco water feature.  Some may call it a swamp, but our future dog and child will be able to swim about all day in it!!

In other action around the place, the initial rough-in of the wiring has been completed, with lots of blue wires for all of my lovely Cat6 data cabling to hopefully all the right places (its frustrating not being even close to 70% confident that the time spent with the electrical consultant was well spent), yellow cables for the speaker systems and all of the power throughout the place.  Quite by chance, Sarah and I were wandering along High Street in Armadale last weekend and popped into Custom Lighting to have a look at potential light fittings.  We started talking to the MD and he pulled us into their light room to demonstrate all different types of fittings we could consider for our home.  Service and knowledge were something that really set him apart from the clowns Metricon use, so we'll definitely be booking a consultation with Custom Lighting to at least discuss our options post hand-over, even if they turn out to be too expensive.

I recieved a call from our SS this afternoon (I vaguely remembered the guy from when we last spoke a month ago...) who advised that the brickwork will be finished by Tuesday, at which stage we could expect the plasterers to get their job started.  It's a case of good news/bad news really, as that pretty much signalled to me that we would likely be able to expect the next invoice next week and another one shortly after.  Ah well.  I guess the more money they get out of us before xmas, the better staff party they'll be able to have, and we'll be paying for nothing to be done for weeks at a time...

Oh, and lastly, another piece of the fence puzzle has fallen into place.  We'll shortly have another fence to complement the current one, leaving only the front gates and rear fence to arrange.  It surely won't be too long until we need to get moving on the concreter as well.  Looking forward to deciding on the colour concrete we should get...