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A pictorial overview of the relocation of the 100 year old villa |
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and it's gradual restoration |
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November 1999 Marking out the house site and beginning to fell and clear about 350 apples trees |
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November 1999 Exterior state of the house before being moved to the new building site. Interior of the house was in a worse condition! |
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November 1999 Stage one / piece one. This was the first piece of the house to be placed at its new location.
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November 1999 Stage two / piece two. |
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November 1999 Stage two / piece two. |
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November 1999 Moving piece two into position beside piece one. |
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November 1999 Manoeuvering little by little so that both pieces are aligned. |
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December 1999 Joining piece one and piece two together. Hall floor and hall ceiling restored and front door about to be reinstalled. |
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December 1999 Stage three / piece three. |
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January 2000 House now lowered onto its new foundations and the roof rafters being put back into their original postions in readiness for the roofing iron to be replaced. (Each rafter & each piece of roofing iron was numbered when originally removed so that they could be replaced in their exact positions) |
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March 2000 Creating a driveway so that we didn't have to drive over bumpy orchard grass. Originally when the land was purchased, there was no drive on to the property. |
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July 2000 All electrical wiring and all plumbing completely renewed. Interior still in a very poor state of repair.
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August 2000 Foundations / piles for the office addition |
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August 2000 Foundations, floor, etc. being laid for the extension to the little back bedroom which was to become a family room, plus foundations for the addition of a breakfast nook and an office. |
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September 2000 Framing for the new office (progress being inspected by Toulousee, the cat) |
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September 2000 Framing for the complete extension |
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October 2000 - Spring Roof on the new extension and the apple trees beginning to blossom |
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March 2001 Window being installed in the new office. Note: "New" window is one from a house of the same era that had been demolished. |
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June 2004 Exterior of the house not too different but lots of work done in the orchard to the orchard trees & over 200 ornamental trees planted thoughout the property - maples, oaks, ashes, liquid ambers, flowering cherries, magnolias, flowering plums, walnuts, lilacs, silver & copper birches, camellias, rhododendrons, etc. |
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May 2005 Internally, addition completely finished - i.e. family room, office & breakfast nook - plus new kitchen installed, and the bathroom and laundry also completely renovated. |
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May 2005 Old roofing iron being replaced with new iron. |
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September 2006 Back view of the house with the new roof |
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December 2006 Another view of the back of the house. |
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December 2006
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December 2006 New planting completed in the spring - avocados. |
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January 2007 Planting alongside the drive in to the house. |
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Entrance to Heirlooms
December 2009 |
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Driveway - December 2009 Not one of these trees or plants were on the property when we purchased it! |
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If
you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me Phone & Fax: +64 6 878 1260 |
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