Windows

Hey there's a window!    Every spare minute Surfer Boy has been at the house painting the windows and now they are in place.  We opted to do the exterior painting ourselves to save some coin and S.B.  sensibly realised that all our double hung windows were going to be a lot easier to paint while they were on the ground.

The second storey windows would have been a complete nightmare so thank god for a bit of forward thinking on behalf of my clever husband.
 

This is the floor to ceiling window that the heritage Consultant at our council made us add to distinguish the old house from the new extension - not too bad considering we fought for two years to reduce it to this.  Originally we had to lose 2 rooms to make the house 'look like two seperate buildings', no weatherboards, no peaked roof etc.  We managed to stick to our guns and our home will now be weatherboard with a pitched roof and instead of cutting in and losing 2 rooms we just had to add this window.  That's a win as far as I'm concerned. Yay us!
(I think it will add some lovely light to our kitchen too)

The roof is going on this week (supposedly!) and the scaffolding is up so more pics to come soon.

Windows/Doors

I'd like to introduce you to our steel doors (this is actually one of the windows)  This was the first thing I wanted in the new house and much of the planning for the interior revolved around them. We did without a few things in order to be able to get these beauties and now they are made and safely onsite - poor Surfer Boy now needs to work out how to install them.  In fact this photo was taken while he was doing exactly that - contemplating.  There are two panels like this one which will sit either side of doors in the same style.  They will take up residence leading from the dining Room to the deck and another set of doors will lead from the Living Room to the other side of the deck - that's the plan so stay tuned to see how it goes.

 

 All the windows have been delivered now and S.B. is undercoating them prior to installation which is rather proactive of him.
(Double hung sash windows for the front of the extension, up and down - opaque windows for upstairs.)

 

Surfer Boy trying out the window in the toilet..... and yes, it fits.

Steel Challenge Complete.

One design feature of our extension that we have been definite about since day one is our doors and windows in the living / kitchen / dining area.  The doors onto our deck will be industrial factory doors (double) with windows on either side. Kind of like these but with smaller panes.  The idea is that they will help link our traditional weatherboard house to our industrial and rustic interior decorating style.

We've decided not to powder coat the frames but to leave it as galvanised steel giving us a dirty silver finish, not as hard as the black.

 

Our problem has been the sourcing of these doors.  I originally found a company in Sydney but my mission this week was to try to find someone to make them a little closer to home to keep costs down.

Finally yesterday, after literally hours of Google searching I found a company that will custom make then exactly as we want and they are only a few suburbs away. I can't tell you how excited I was.  I have since found another company close to home and am feeling very pleased with myself for completing this week's challenge.

Now to get a quote!  Not so excited about this part - fingers crossed we don't have to sell a kidney.

WINDOWS

And so it begins!

We've started to get a flurry of emails from our architect wanting us to decide on various elements of the house.  Unfortunately I was so sure that this renovation would never get the go-ahead that I completly blanked it from my mind so as to save myself from crushing disappointment.

Now I have to let her know what windows we want for each room and so the googleing begins...

 

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