The house is coming along well.  I’m still Impressed with front circular window, but the front entrance is now becoming clearer and more prominent.

As the scaffolding comes down the entranceway becomes more visible.

It is not going to be small, or easily missed!  I had always wanted to live in a sandstone house, and the designer and builder are “doing us proud”: the two-level from entrance will be an impressive feature of the building by the looks of it now.

One of the odd things, if you look, is that the “bargeboards” (the front panels just underneath the roof edge) and the guttering are being put in place even though the roof tiles haven’t yet arrived, let alone been put in place.

This weekend we have been having to decide about electricals: we have had to decide on the location of 40 different site for electrical sockets, and the locations of no less than 110 different lights!  We have also been having to decide upon the house alarm.  Whilst this has never been an issue in our current house, in Glenbrook we will have to have a state-of-the-art house alarm.  Fortunately one of our friends is an expert in this industry, so we are able to use his expertise to get an up-to-date system, wireless, linked to the ‘net, etc.

In reality, it all sounds horribly expensive to me, and I have little doubt that it will be.  Still, out “Grand Design” was never going to be a cheap or cut-price project.