Renovations.....

Well, lets start with the renovations everyone is waiting on..... The sliding door and the window into Greg's room has been done....

There is still a lot of work to be done - but we're getting there gradually..... one day it'll all be done and we'll get bored and have to buy another fix-er-up-per house... ehehe.... (NOT LIKELY!!!)

This is going to look a lot nicer once it's bricked up.....

The sliding door means that the room is lit up a lot better now....

Greg finally has a bedroom door... the gap under the door is because we're planning on tiling - so there's room under the door in preparation...

The inside of Greg's room... the floor is all dusty from cutting a hole in the wall to put the window in - as well as having to cut the timber for around the window....

Ok, well that's the first lot of renovations...... now comes the ones that have become slightly more urgent....

On Monday I was walking down our rickety back stairs - and the one rotten one that we'd been keeping an eye on (clearly not on the day in question) decided that it had had enough of this cruel world and gave way..... it was just rotten and it's time had come.... It was hard to get a pic of how it looked - but this is just an idea.... the bruising looked like it was going to be worse than it ended up being... and now my leg is just a touch sore and has slight bruising ... (which for me is a miracle.....)

((And just when I thought I couldn't be handed any more bad luck this year.......))

Top of the stairs.... taped up so that the little miss can't start to walk down the stairs...

You can just make out the tap where the stair is missing... and the one above it that had been replaced after we'd been in the house only a few months...

The bottom of the stairs that are also taped up so that the little miss (and other people) - don't try climbing the stairs... we'd hate to find that other stairs are ready to fall out too....

Plan is that tomorrow I measure up the height of the landing - and the distance from the start to the finish of the stairs - so that we can have new railings built to hold new stairs... and this time we're going for the steel effect railings.. but stick with the timber treads as they're less slippery...

We "were" planning on holding off stair renovations until we'd built the verandah - but - it seems that this is just an expense we're going to have to deal with... these things happen....