The Biddle Blog: All systems go...

Well, it's been about a month since I last 'blogged' and a lot has happened since then, especially in terms of building progress at home. We've also been away to the berg, to Drak Sun Chalets with RCI timeshare, for a few days, which was really great, and a chance to recharge our batteries which we needed by then.

Some of you may know we are busy doing alterations to our home which we started in May/June and which should hopefully be complete by the end of next week (20th September - fingers crossed). I've taken quite a few photos from the initial stages of demolition and will add more in the next week as the building work comes closer to completion, but in the meantime, here are some pics of what's been going on. Just to fill you in.. we have decided to join the outbuilding (existing granny flat) with the house, but in so doing, we've made a few changes in terms of making half the area in the existing granny flat, an en-suite guestroom, with a playroom adjoining this guestroom, which then leads onto what is now an enlarged/extended dining room, so the house is all in one. Suddenly the house feels quite a bit bigger - one doesn't always realise the size of rooms until all the walls came down, and we saw this on thursday last week when the dining room 'grew'. Of course, once the building is all done, we will need to furnish and decorate the new spaces, but that we'll do once the dust has settled or rather, been swept away, and things are a bit more 'normal'. We'll have to decorate the new 'space' slowly as it all costs a lot to do, but it will give us a chance to do it the way we really want it. We're all too relieved to know that everything will be finished before baby Biddle arrives. Watch this space for more in the coming weeks when we update the pics....