It's all finished!

Have a look at the cubby house - inside and out. I'm really really delighted with it, and the children are like pigs in mud.

Painting the cubby

I know, they aren't great photos - obviously I need to wipe the lens... but here's the progress on the cubby house.

The paint is on - green with white trim on the outside. One room is cream inside and the other is pink.

Below is my neighbour, the brains and designer behind the whole operation. He's making the roof frame and tomorrow we should have a completed house!

Once again, our other neighbour came over to have a stickybeak and a cuppa!

Cubby progress

All the walls are up. Now to finish the cladding, re-fix the window and put the roof on. After that, I hand over to interior decorator hubby to make it pretty!

Cubby progress

Here's the progress on the cubby house. We put the walls up today on the first room.

Below you can see my carpentry teacher and next door neighbour who came up with the plans for this mansion. He has designed it so that it can be unbolted and moved, should we shift sometime in the future.

My other neighbour in the picture came in to see what the excitement was all about!
There will be another room on the side (where the walls are not completed) - the 'writing room' according to my daughter.

Next task is to make the frames and floor for room 2, clad them and put them up. We'll work on the roof at the end.

Obsessive escapism or just having fun?

My brain loves a project and I'm really really really loving building my cubby house right now!

This picture shows my latest achievement. I managed to build a side frame with pointy roofy bits AND put in a window ($5 from the tip). I've got another gorgeous old frosted window for another frame.

People ask me how I have time to do this sort of thing. Honestly, I get kind of obsessed over my projects so I sneak half hours here and there to go down and build. I also tend to make decisions like: hmmm, washing or building? cooking or building? cleaning or building? Building wins right now.

As well, I figure I'm doing this for the children's ultimate enjoyment and play. They will LOVE this cubby house and I hope it will get them outside a lot together.

I'm also modelling learning new skills, trying things out and showing that you can make things and make it good with bits and pieces; everything you get doesn't have to be new from the shop. I hope that my children might one day think, "Mum built things and found ways past the challenges, so I can too."