Our home at Corindi Beach

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Thought you may want to see how we are doing with our new home? It's so very different to Swift Cottage, lots of space, big windows, heaps of light and high ceilings, some of our English furniture looks small here..........

Most of the pictures are of the outside, as you can see we have a lot of landscaping to do. Our home is on a corner and we've had a low wall built which will have wooden horizontal slats to finish it.
The house is designed to take account of the breezes, solar panels heat our water, a large in-ground concrete tank captures rain water and this is used for the washing machine, toilets and watering the garden. There is no water shortage here, recently we had a week of heavy rain, 6 inches fell in one night, had to go and buy some wellies (gum boots as I was promptly told) to hang out the washing.......but at least we've seen how we need to plan the garden drainage before we started to landscape.

We live upstairs to take advantage of the ocean views and it's been great to see the Humpback Whales migrating, they've pretty much gone south again now, though we did see one yesterday. Kangaroos are often sighted in the garden opposite shading from the heat. We are getting used to seeing them but it was strange to see about 12 on the grass verge as we left the pub at about 8.30pm last evening. a couple were boxing, so we kept well clear.

Will post more pictures of our progress soon and some of indoors.


Steph and John

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Photos

artists view
view from corner of Ocean and Pacific street

planning the patio
That's exactly right! (common Aussie expression)

at last some privacy
Australian hardwood fence, cyclone free and white ant protected (termites a biggggg issue in this area)

up the garden path
concrete railway sleepers- well done John, Cris and Claire and the plants were provided by my brother John

Comments

[Anonymoose]

I'm A Nartist!!
Woo - looks like you've built yourselves a lovely house there guys. What no pool? Exactly right!

[Emma n Ant]

Wow!!
Well i thought it was impressive last time we same it...but what a massive difference the decking out the back makes! it looks fantastic!...can't see any signs of the pool that we helped choose the colour of!...or the extra raised bit to see even more view! still i know where id rather be living! and i feel extra special cos Ant and i must be the only people on the blog who have actually seen it in real life! im snowed under with work at uni at the moment but as long as i can keep my head above water this year im sure ill be fine! keep smiling and enjoy ur aussie summer! love emma n ant xxxxxxxxxxxx p.s the dvd is in the post

[Colin & Del]

Looking Good !!
House looking Fab, I am sure all the hard work will be worth it. Looking forward to the inside pictures, raining and cold here in North east England today. Take care, Love, Colin & Del xx