The Top Storey Frames

From the Air

Thanks very much to Chris and Trish Cowan of Coastwide Helicopters for thinking of us as they flew over our plot. They took these beautiful photos and passed them on to us.

If you click on them they will enlarge and you will see more detail.








The fine line down the middle is the boundary between Peter and Helen's land and ours. North is on the right of the picture. The low lying bush to the South is what our land used to look like.

Preparing for the Second Storey

Lifting one of the steel beams to be put in place to support the second storey




Beams of steel... going into place



Nerves of steel... Helen's brother, watching the proceedings.

A beam going into place


The upstairs floor joists in place



Two brothers on the heights


Peter doing over time - Thank you, Pete!



Beams and joists in place ready for the upstairs floor.

The dining area (in the fore) and kitchen. The pipe sticking up behind the ladder is for the kitchen sink.



The stair case


The Master Builder



The stair case improved



The floor of the upper story; looking East up the Arahura Valley

View from upstairs to the West, over Peter and Helen's and Derek and Diana's to the sea.



View from upstairs to the North, over our garden



View from upstairs to the South, toward Hokitika and the Southern Alps



The play area



Upstairs, and Kadesh serving morning tea to the builders

More Frames

The frames for the front of the house have arrived. Looks like a mass of matchsticks from this angle, I know...




This is the lounge. There are lots of beams everywhere holding things in just the right place till Peter and his guys get the floor joists up for upstairs. Hope to be putting down the upstairs floor on Saturday!


The lounge from a different angle. I hope you get the idea.... wood stuff everywhere...