292 - Update



292 - January 2010



292 - October 2010



292 - side view



292 - the other side

 Life has settled and continued at 292. I haven't written much about it for a while, however, it all goes well. Both apartments have lovely tenants and the new garden is slowly growing with new shoots sprouting. Dad and I are almost ready to apply for the Code of Compliance. We have been finishing little details over the last few months - when weather, time and energy allows us. It was on this gorgeous day that I decided to take a good look on how far 292 has come - and indeed it has. Aren't before and after photos great?
Photographs by Charlotte Minty.


The back stair access to the top apartment - January 2010



Stairs restored and with a screen - October 2010



Screens cover the stairs and the back courtyard where rubbish bins and washing lines are hidden from view.



Showing the way to 292-B.



A little garden and colour at the side.



Love the pale blue front doors.



The new garden - starting to sprout away.



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292 - Driveway

The old driveway is gone and getting ready for the concrete to arrive tomorrow.

New slat walls beside the deck and around the entrance at the back. Waiting for me to paint them.

Euan working on the driveway on the other side of the building. That's a new driveway edge which will have planting behind. Retaining walls waiting for me to stain them.

I haven't updated about 292 for a while but that's not to say that nothing has been happening! Plenty has been going on.

All the interior painting has been finished and the tiling is well underway - finished by the end of tomorrow we hope. Meanwhile, Euan the builder has been tackling the outside area. Last week this area was a complete mess - the plumbers had dug up all the dirt to lay the pipes. It was during the heavy rainstorms so there was water and mud everywhere. It is looking much better now and even more so tomorrow when the concrete truck arrives.

Dad and I have a weekend of finishing exterior painting details and cleaning up in preparation for next week. The plumbers and electricians will take over early next week to do their finishing touches, then the carpet will follow, in which I then follow with all my belongings and officially move in. Yah!

Photographs by Charlotte Minty.

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292 -The Latest...

I visited 292 yesterday and it is ticking along. The painters have arrived for interior painting and Euan the builder is working outside on the new balcony for upstairs. There will be a ground level deck located underneath.
Photographs by Charlotte Minty.

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