House update - blurry camera phone shots and exciting news

After a few weeks without a successful visit to the site, we managed to get a good look inside the unit again on the weekend. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera on me at the time, so I had to make do with taking a few pictures on my camera. As a result, the quality isn't too great on them, but you can at least get a bit of an idea about the progress.

Being a building site of a certain stage of completion, things are looking rather messy. The above shot shows our garage, which now has a back wall, and in this shot is housing some gyprock for one of the other units, two baths and a Dana.

Here's one of the front doorway, where things are looking similarly messy. Those with a good memory might spot that the supports for the porch roof now have concrete footings, which is good to see. They were a bit precariously sitting on random offcuts of wood before.

Here you can see the living room, with its newly erected walls. The second shot is where the kitchen will be eventually.

Here is the bathroom, and the vanity unit that will eventually live in it. The vanity is currently hanging out in the living room, with another vanity destined for one of the other units, and a laundry sink.

Here's the garage from another angle. Plenty of room for the car, plus bikes and the early stages of a classic Jones junk collection. Hopefully it will never be quite as bad as mum and dad's place - I think not purchasing a boat or a trailer for it to travel on will be an important part of avoiding this.

And finally, here is a picture of the courtyard with the final brickwork and cladding completed. While you can't really see it in this picture, it was good to see the final colour of the cladding.

So there are the photos; now on to the exciting news! We had an update from the estate agent and developer about the estimated completion date. The exciting part is that the estimate at the moment is that they will be done in July! I'm not entirely sure how - there are some units that still don't have roofs on them yet, and then there's landscaping etc to sort out. Its still very positive news. The only real dampener on it is that when it's finished, the plans have to be registered with the ACT Govt.

Those who recall the last time we had plans go through the ACT Govt may see the problem already.

Registration of the plan can take from three weeks, to three months depending entirely on how long the ACT Govt take to process them. I'm crossing my fingers that it will be measured in weeks, rather than months, but it's still a bit of a gloomy prospect. Its one thing to wait for them to be finished, but another entirely for them to be finished, and just be waiting around for the paperwork, especially when we will just have paid an exorbitant amount in stamp duties to the authorities processing the paperwork.

Anyway, I have more to say on the subject, and also a whole bunch to say on our plans for the interior, but I've just noticed it's gone midnight and I need to get some sleep!