The Metricon Adventure: Hard Gardening

The Metricon Adventure: Hard Gardening: With spring threatening to arrive, it was time to get the side garden organised and also sort out the dreary path at the side of the house. ...

Hard Gardening

With spring threatening to arrive, it was time to get the side garden organised and also sort out the dreary path at the side of the house. Also the outdoor room needed some pre-work ready for the roofing truss's that will be installed shortly.

After a truckload of river pebbles and countless wheelbarrow loads up and down and down and up, it's done! and looks a treat. Roof will go on the outdoor room shortly and then its true alfresco time. Did a sweep around Metricon display homes last week for inspiration and I think we have Rocked The Kasbar with the end result, looks a treat and with some specimen plants and F.O. pots its going to be the place to be. Once the roofs on the outdoor room it's house warming time!

Side Garden Bliss

We put on our gardening gloves and went to work on the expansive mud patch at the side of the house, Manually levelled the junk filled surface as best we could and after some side paving was completed we went for tuscan pebbles to a depth of around 6 cm (3"). looks sensational and so its bye bye mud cakes.

Ad in and ons

Still progessing the landscaping at the front yard. It look great with the from gates and driveway gates and the new exposed aggregate drive and pathways and we choose red scoria to cover the garden beds and it looking like a professional job, its amazing how much rubbish is imbedded in the ground after the build, I have dug up so much crap, be it bit and pieces of the old house, whole bricks under the surface, Tiles, Gold nuggets that turned out to be a bottle top, broken glass, bits of wood and old dead roots. It takes like an hour to slowly dig a hole for a small ornamental grass, the hole for the palm took me and a pick like 3 hours and of course using a normal shovel is pretty much impossible.

We had saved / rescued a heap of old red brick pavers from the old house and I'm slowly doing an amateur pave job at the side of the house - anything beats muddy feet, so once it's done I need a new pair of shoes.



The inside finishing is taking place and we have bought / ordered a range of big format framed prints and they look a treat. here are some snaps, and there are more to come.

Open Sesame

Well the Weekends - fade to lost but the results are very satisfying, Bunings were the base for sourcing materials for the Fortress Gates and timber panels, paint and steel post hardware. Then came the Electric Gates supplied by APC in Morabbin. Its was a hard slog dyna-bolting steel to brick and concrete, metal to metal, drilling, bolting and hacksawing to steel plus wiring, trenching and control systems, but alas it was finally finished. A gate sort of puts the fort into fortress. Overall the front yard is really starting to shine.


now I really need to rest - until the next thing called the backyard!

Artification

Funny how the old art, which looked great in the "old" house now seem dated or doesnt suit the new home design. Big house means you need extra big prints - this a new acquisition for the entrance hall.



Now to hang it

Gated

Well long week end lost is upon us. Commenced the gate install and here are the initial pics. Used fortress gates and cut them to size and also 50 x 50 steel for end posts dyna-bolted to peers. Electrics gates / motor arms will be fitted once gates are in a painted.