BBQ!

Geoff bought a new BBQ for the deck before we even found a builder or had plans drawn up.  He got a good bargain (on-line auction) and got a great stainless steel model with side/wok burner and rotisserie as well as five regular burners.  We got rid on the old one, which had been passed down from his parents.  It had lived a good life but had started to deteriorate and certainly wasn't good looking enough for a new deck.  He put the new BBQ together today and it looks awesome!

Ta-dah!!

More before photos

Some more 'before' shots of the deck from below before renovations start.

Before Photos

Here are some more photos of the deck now before renovations begin.

The current view when sitting - damn wide railing is right at eye-height!

Here is our cat Charlie, relaxing on my chair on the deck.  He loves to sit out there to watch birds and sunbake.

From the ground

Our deck from the ground below.  These were taken when dad was painting the house for us a number of years ago.

Another view

Just found these picture of our view during one of the dust storms in Brisbane during 2009.

And one of a neighbour...

How the view changes

Soft early morning light

Rainbow

Misty morning

Storm approaching

Geotesting and lighting

Geological testing has been completed. The structural engineer uses the information they produce in order to sign off on the plans. Hopefully that means he will complete the structural certification shortly so that plans can be certified.

We went to Milton Lighting last weekend and they were really helpful in guiding some of our decision making about lighting. Looks like we are going with pretty standard down-lighting. I was keen for pendant lights in the lounge room but we won't really have the ceiling height to play with. We are getting some cool 'snorkel' down-lights for the library area - they pull down out of the fitting and give a really focused directional beam of light.