Saturday, October 19, 2024

Moving on to landscaping

The next two days will be hectic with trades in and outside the house, but that will pretty much wrap up the electrical, building, and plumbing work. Yay! The floor works will be a bit longer as the marmoleum layer in the kitchen and the timber sander are held up.

Mish delighted with her kitchen cabinetry and here comes the 5mt stainless steel benchtop:


Meanwhile, the garden is looking really good for a year of being almost ignored and having truckloads of timber dumped on it. We have flowers and blossoms and fruit coming on, and loads of birds having a lovely time in spring.

Mish harvesting grapefruit from the roof of the Borer Hotel (aka the garage). It's a productive tree.



The crab apple is going off with a beaut blossom show. It's getting a rare water here.


And now we shift gears to think about the plan for what's left of the front yard. 

Mish has been having fun this weekend  laying out a design for planting and pathways, with a planter box combo around a seating area in the foreground. On her right is the advanced magnolia that will get planted in that spot after the last bit of trenching to move an electrical cable. That's Monday ooh la la.

The plan looks good. Mish is chuffed. There will be plenty of Australian natives and vegetables, two espaliered figs and more citrus and a herb garden and crushed limestone paths and some paving and an irrigation system and then a cup of tea and bit of a lie down.


We have to move all the landscaping mockup on Sunday as there will be at least two tradie vans parked here come Monday morning.

Two tradies! Our sparkies levelling the circular lights over the kitchen bench.


Mish has been experimenting with low alcohol wine. So much for the Wolf Blass rosé. That's a mad curve she's got on the pour. This is our washhouse which is still the kitchen - for one more day!


Taking in the morning sun and spring odourama on the deck outside main bedroom and studio. So glad we put that back in the works.


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