The Gib is Up!

Do they have gib (pronounced jib) in the US? I'm not sure. It's the stuff they put up before they start plastering and painting. Anyway, they've started putting it up and it's the first real sign of the house starting to look like a house. The absolute best news is, we both secretly feared that the house would look smaller once the walls were up, but the opposite is true. We're really getting excited now.

Here are pictures of the kitchen and living room, respectively.

Wondering where cricket matches and episodes of Law & Order SVU and will be broadcast? You're looking at it! It's all wired and ready for the TV!

Here's a picture of the upstairs dressing area and bathroom, obviously not gibbed yet. I love the sun that this gets, and the cats will be in HEAVEN. Outside those windows is a narrow, flat expanse of roof, perfect for kitties! One might think we designed the entire dormer around the cats' comfort (we didn't).

We made a wonderful discovery on a trip to the house at around 7.30am: the morning sun comes in through those two dormer windows (which will have blinds) NOT the huge triangle window. This alleviates two fears: getting woken up every morning by the blinding sun streaming through this massive window OR the horribly expensive custom-made window treatment we would've been forced to buy.