Yahoo! The time has finally come - the family moved out over the weekend!!

Its only been 13 months and WOW! their home is gorgeous.

Steve did all the stairs himself and has done a brilliant job in my eyes. He saved all the bearers and joists plus any old wood he could from their original Miner's cottage (120 year old Tallowwood) and has reused it in their new home.

The kitchen is a dream, the tiler has done an awesome job on all the tiles (all greens and soft greys, with darker tones of green) and the carpenters on their massive front door The door as you can see in the picture isn't finished off. They put it in on Friday and the builder and carpenter came back this morning (it's now Monday evening as I write this) to put back all the cladding around the door frame etc.

The pool has been emptied 3 times this year alone as we have had such a wet year. It should be finished by the end of the year, well that's what the pool guy said!!

Amy and I have been moving stuff over for the past couple of weeks, so she just has some clothes (mostly long dresses etc.) to pick up. Her wardrobes will be going in next week, so she is using cardboard boxes with a metal rod which holds coat-hangers to hang your clothes up on.

I'll add some pictures - they are just so happy to be finally in their new home. Love Chris

1. Amy and Steve's bathroom with mirror to the ceiling.
2. Girl's bathroom
3. Guest bathroom (this will be my bathroom when I babysit.)
4. Front view of house
5. Side view of house
6. Looking up toward the back deck
7. Standing on back deck looking toward the pool
8. Looking into kitchen
9. Kitchen view
10.Laundry
11.Study (he ran out of his original wood, so did the parquetry, Amy said she can always put a rug on it!!!!)
12. Upstairs hallway (where Amy is standing they have had a laundry chute built into the timber wall panelling.
13. Stairs looking towards front door.
14. Stairs looking towards the back room.
15. Front door