Let there be Grass

16 August: Side water feature

16 August: Side (with grass)

16 August: Front door (with grass)

16 August: Front (with grass)

21 July - Elevation

The front garden, above the bathroom skylights and idiotically placed aircon. The garage is on the left.

Front door entrance, which the new design is actually making us use, finally. Cleared the area in the front to landscape with new plants.

20 July 2007 - Side Garden

Walls plastered, cottage door finished, step from bedroom extended. We will plaster the neighbouring wall too this week before painting and rolling out grass.

19 July 2007 - Front Garden

Plastered the wall and cleaned all the foliage.

19 July 2007 - Garage Complete

After we've rolled new grass and the wheel barrows are no longer screaming over the garage paving, we'll stain them dark brown and seal them

9 July: New Gardens

From the back of the garage looking towards the front wall and pedestrian entrance. All the plants have been cleared out and this entire area will need to be levelled and new grass rolled out. The swing will be removed too. New Moyo garden lighting compliments of Ulindi :-)
The back of the garage and new garden area. All of these tiles and the concrete beneath are being cleared and new grass will be rolled out here. The step from the bedroom has been extended. The walls will be plastered and painted. Despite the enormous size of the garage, we definitely have gained a lot more garden.

8 July: Garage taking shape

View from the front wall, looking over the garage to the old garage/cottage in the back. Paving and a roof comes next.

View from the top end of the front garden, looking towards the garage. Bottom right of the pic is the pedestrian entrance.

4 July - Is it art?

Compliments of my cousin Byron, who has been spending some vac time with us and getting a little bored. Clearly this wall will be broken down once the doors are complete.

Incidently, the wooden poles - they took some of my car door with them. The space is narrow and coming home from an Eagle Eye Cherry concert I misjudged the distance.

3-4 July 2007: Garage taking shape

The countdown begins - although we are ahead of schedule. The garage is much bigger than we anticipated from the plans even though it's meant to take 4 cars. Right now we're driving in and out betweem wooden poles holding the lintels up.
Despite this massive building, we've gained a lot more garden area in the front of the house and behind the garage alongside the house. I'll post more detailed pics of that once we've cleared all the paving and get ready to roll out new grass.

Once the garage roof and paving starts we will add the garage door and break down the existing areas of wall that are no longer necessary.

Day 1 - 12 June 2007

As you can see, a lot needs to happen before we can make our vows out here :-)

Oh yes, the fountain is complete

We won't lay grass or paint unti closer to the time - but the fountain works, and we will put stones in it.

only snag, the motor sounds a little like a small tractor - will build a cover over it.

Day 1: 12 June 2007

Hate to lose the trees, but they had to go. Will keep a lot of others, especially the cactus at the entrance, by building cleverly round them and incorperating them into the new design.
For now, just that slightly exposed feeling...

Time for a new garage...

So, with less than three months left till the wedding, in the house, we're going ahead with the buidling of a new garage. Builders say 6 weeks. But we know what that means... Will track this build daily - we have to get the garage up, fix the front wall, remodel and re-establish the garden, and paint the house before septemeber 1.

are we crazy.

22 Feb - Progress

Back to demolition... forgot about the dust. Moved everything from the cottage to the lounge and start replacing windows and doors with wooden frames. Will update with more pics this weekend - even though its taken a while, the changes are great and links the house up nicely.

Courtyard renovations start

First thing in the morning the bricks will be lifted and cleared and foundations laid for a water feature which will flow into a pond. The pics are taken from the back wall - which will be plastered and smoothed - and the pond will stretch about of the third of the distance towards the door. Grass will be planted so that from all three doors (the window on the cottage is about to be replaced by a sliding door, much like the one from the lounge) you can walk out onto it.
Grass will also be extended down the pathways.