The framing on the hallway is now complete.

The hallway will be 96cm wide. It’s a compromise between the 90cm that the builder suggested and the 102cm that the architect suggested. There is no actual council regulation for the hallway width, so we went with the compromise of a 96cm wide hallway.

Because it is quite a long hallway we want to make sure that the hallway width didn’t actually feel too narrow. The hall is about 8.5 metres long, so as you can see in the photo is quite a long one and can feel a bit “tunnel like” if the hallway width is too narrow.

We spent a good deal of time tonight trying to work out the lighting for the hallway. I hadn’t actually thought too much about the hallway lighting up till now, so I would be very interested to hear what other peoples thoughts were on what kind of lights to put into a hallway.

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Again I came from work today to see some pretty good progress happening on the house.

As you can see on the left the hallway framing is half completed and the kids bedrooms seem to be pretty much done, which you can see below.

Caleb again had fun walking through the frames figuring out which room was his, where the windows will be and where his wardrobe is.

In two of the smaller bedrooms (I have to stop calling them “kids” bedrooms, since we only have two kids and three small bedrooms, people might start getting ideas!) we have built in wardrobes. We had actually planned to have them in all three, but we will be getting a large non-built in robe for Jessica’s room upstairs soon, so we will be moving that one into the third small bedroom eventually.

We have also put a linen closet in the hallway, which I always appreciated having in my parent’s place. Well, more like I appreciate it now, not so much as a teenager.

They guys are still cruising through the job very quickly. Today they finished building what looks like all of the external frames for the house!

Most of the bracing ply looks to up as well, which is good. Some of the days this week the whole house was swaying because they had removed the temporary bracing struts to make way for the wall frames. With the new bracing ply on it should make the house feel much more solid.

The garage is really taking shape so that we can see the size of it, and where the laundry is going to fit. Today Tamara said that we had better not be getting a long car anytime soon, and she is right. There wouldn’t be room for a car over 6m in the garage if we want to still be able to use the laundry. I am still hoping that I have room down the side for some shelves and storage, but like many things right now, time will tell.

We had to go for a few hours without water today as they re-routed some of the temporary plumbing, but there has actually been very little disruption for us as they have been working under there. Well, besides the noise of course…

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