Well things are slowly but surely coming together on the new house! The last post I seem to have made about the house was back in August!! A surprise, to be sure. But you can see it and then see the progress that has been made! Though, I could have sworn I included a more up-to-date post than that at some point...before we had brick.
Never mind...this will be an all-inclusive post! We'll walk you through from the ground up! As you can see after the jump, our plot of 'open air' was extremely promising! There was...well...space! There was air! There was a hell of a view! It was our little plot of air and we loved it to pieces. Since then, however, things have changed...for the better!The walls went up fairly quickly. So quickly, in fact, that I never managed to grab a shot of them going up! Then...to be fair...I did still live State-side at that time! Never mind!
These shots were taken approximately October 14, shortly after I arrived in the UK permanently. You can see in the pictures here that the walls of the main structure are up...still in dire need of some cladding of some sort. You know...some brick and mortar?
Also, back in October we didn't even have a roof, really. It was started, sure...but it's hardly what you'd call 'solid' at this point...and you're not protected from the elements, what with roofing not competed and windows still being added! But it was nice to be able to look at 'our walls' properly! We were definitely on the move forward!
A positive aspect was that they seemed to start (as you can even see in the pictures sans walls) with the park area. This is good because it allows the trees and turf time to settle before people moved in! It also makes for much more interesting photos than a pile of dirt. Hehehe. Anyway, here you see a wide shot of the building, and you get the idea of how things will lay out when all is completed. You can also see by the brick 'pillars' on either side of the path through the park that the red brick and ultra-green grass create a beautiful contrast. Imagine when the actual building is completed and no longer 'blue'.
There are more 'old' shots, sure...but I won't bore you with those. We now have brick and windows. We're actually looking to complete on our mortgage by ~ fingers crossed ~ the end of the month. I'm actually going on a 'home demonstration' of our apartment this Wednesday, so I'll get to see how it looks on the inside! I may or may not take my camera with me. If I do, expect more pics!
You can see that not all of the 'Juliet' balcony railings are up yet, in fact none on the right side of the building. But you can see what they will look like when they are on. An interesting development is the addition of a 'bricked out' section of the two white 'towers'. This was not in the artists' original interpretation, and quite frankly I think it looks a bit odd. Then again, I don't get paid uber amounts of money to be an architect or building designer...so my vote matters little. Hey...I'm just living here.
It looks like...possibly...our address will be somewhere on Rylands Drive! Not sure...but I saw the sign...and wanted to snap a pic of it. In any case, all that remains to be done is to sort out flooring (due to a miscommunication with the realtors) and sign on the dotted line, as it were. Basically...exchange a poop-load of money and then we get to start moving in! We will be hopefully moving in March! Yay!That's all for now, folks.
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