Build a building G.B.2014!!...Being finished 2020. Our Dream home. (spanner and wife)

[spanner570]

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The finished shell. My wife was brought up in an 'upside down house', meaning the living area was upstairs and the bedrooms on the ground floor, so she wanted the same for our new home.

You can see now the lounge, study etc. on the top level leading out onto two balconies. There will be a bridge on the left side which will be the entrance to the property from the parking area. Below is the master bedroom, leading onto a balcony overlooking the pool. Two other bedrooms and the kitchen are on this level.

All in all a modest pad, don't you think?

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Our dream home has numerous vineyards close by, so as the local builders had worked so hard and done an excellent job in less time than expected, we decided to give them a treat.....

We bought each and everyone of them a bumper box of wine gums!!! The look on their faces was something to behold, I can tell you, and I'm sure it's made all the difference to our future relationship with the locals.....We eagerly look forward to many an invitation to visit them in their own homes.

Pip pip,

Ron

[Gern]

The lads have returned from their luxury holiday in Nova Scotia then. You can tell 'em from me they're doing a cracking job of this summer cottage. Surely they must already know what you think from the way you're spoiling them rotten - I mean to say, a whole bumper box? Each!

[spanner570]

There has been a very long delay with the building of this, our dream home - late 2014 to be precise!


Now that my Zulu working party have finished messing about at Rorke's Drift. I've been able to employ them again on the house....


Also, cash has been scarce. Although we won the lottery in 2014, my wife insisted on giving most of the money away to our family "To give them a good start in life." ........Bo***cks!


A goodly portion of what was left she gave to 40 illegal immigrants, she found in her potting shed a few months ago....


But all is not lost. Recently we won the lottery again - how lucky was that?! So we have started once more on our place in the sun.


The lads have been working hard and have got the roof on and tiled a bit of the floor area and generally sorted out the grounds.


My wife and I flew out in our private jet and took a few pictures to show the neighbours. They are very interested and have become really friendly since our big win.... People are really kind and sincere.


Anyway, here are the pictures.....


This one is taken from our private beach. I noticed in our prolonged absence, some of the razor wire running down to the low tide mark needs replacing.....






A side view. The living area is on top and the bedrooms below. I designed it thus to have as much natural light on my full sized snooker table as I can.






This shot is taken from where the stream for our natural pool will be. It's dry at the moment, but I intend to dam off a couple of orange plantations and divert their water for my pool. The miserable sods are kicking up a fuss, don't they realise my wife and I are British, and we can do what we want in a Foreign place?!






Here's a shot of the front of the property and the start of the infinity pool. Note how the pool will go under the master bedroom balcony. We designed it so if the weather gets too hot we can swim into the shade. It would be most tiresome to have to walk from the pool edge into the shade....Good thinking, what?






Here's the roof and tiling the lads from Rorke's Drift did. I asked about the rather loud floor tiles. They said it was something to do with hiding the blood from the sheep they stole from the locals to kill when they wanted to eat....Damn fine thinking I thought.






Anyway, that's the build up to date....and here come the orange growers en-mass. Right lads, assegai's at the ready....Charge!


Pip Pip,


Sq. Ldr. R. Suppards. (Ret.)

[Guest]

Wow, this is amazing Ron, never saw the original posts. Your idea for location had me thinking Wales for some reason have you ever considered making dolls houses? 1/12 scale is the standard, years ago I used to make dolls house furniture and loved doing it. I have to repeat an unanswered question from above though. Do you guys live on pizza or do you ram raid your local pizza place?

[monica]

amazing Ron,dose look the treat,and real like the color of the roof tiles,must been in Spain some where,


coming along very nicely,

[Robert1968]

Hope you don't mind Ron but I have saved a few of your building pics especially on the roofing tiles as I'll be using this as a Template for my scratch build


By the way this is bloomin awesome and looks the dogs danglies


( I may ask you to build our dream home when we win the millions!!


Regards


Robert

[stona]

Looks great and a very nice way of realising your dreams on a budget.


I had to realise someone else's dreams on an unlimited budget.


Greetings


Albert Speer.

[spanner570]

Yesterday the wife asked "Can you go up into the loft and get down my suitcase of summer clothes, please dear?"

This request was obeyed. Whilst I was up there rooting, I came across this incomplete 2014 Group Build effort 'Building a building'

I brought it down and showed it to the wife. "Let's finish it." she suggested. So we will get our heads together and have us some fun together doing just that.... :blow-kiss:

Something a bit 'Off the Wall'

Ron

[spanner570]

Hello everyone.

Well, my wife and I took off in our Lear Jet and arrived on our private airstrip at our retreat today after a 6 yr. absence. No quarantine, just a few bottles of Scotch for the local 'Bill' to turn a blind eye.
Not much been done, I'm afraid. The locals informed us that as soon as we left in 2014, our Zulu workforce scarpered. They told the neighbours they were off back to Africa to celebrate their victory over us Brits. at Isandlwana in 1879 - and never came back!

So we're sat down in the empty, but sun drenched swimming pool, making plans to finish our 'Dream House'

Wish you were here.....

[Mini Me]

I wasn't here in 2014.......but I'm here now and expect you and the Missus, after all these years and just celebrated your umptieth wedding anniversary while consuming at least two bottles of bubbly and getting all silly and stuff................well it's about time you finished this project!!! Some of the folks on here have been holding their breath a long time, what with the Zulu's scarpering and all you'd think you could at least post a recent picture of your dream house, cobwebs and all..........and did I tell you the cat's got asthma!!:tongue-out3::tongue-out2::tongue-out:

Cheers Mate, I'll follow along if you don't mind. Rick H.

[boatman]

I wasn't here in 2014.......but I'm here now and expect you and the Missus, after all these years and just celebrated your umptieth wedding anniversary while consuming at least two bottles of bubbly and getting all silly and stuff................well it's about time you finished this project!!! Some of the folks on here have been holding their breath a long time, what with the Zulu's scarpering and all you'd think you could at least post a recent picture of your dream house, cobwebs and all..........and did I tell you the cat's got asthma!!:tongue-out3::tongue-out2::tongue-out:

Cheers Mate, I'll follow along if you don't mind. Rick H.

WHAT Rick said above as this gave me a really good chuckle this little story an :thinking:me an my SWMBO wont have a dream home on the milliions unless they give out a free lottery lol im surprised you dint hijack Pete's minions as they only work for bannas an they cheaper that the sulu's :rolling::tongue-out3::smiling3:
WE'll also follow on chris an SWMBO

[spanner570]

Thanks boys, nice to have you both along.

This bit of fun and nonsense won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it is a scale model, albeit not made of steel and rivets.

Rick, there are some pictures of the house on page one, which I took just before we left for home in 2014.....

Christopher, you never know what the future holds, so who knows what might drop through your letter box.

Ron

[spanner570]

Hi everybody.

Luckily we installed a stand pipe for our temp. water supply and could use a BBQ for our cooking, but the missus wanted a fresh water swim.

We needed some sort of access to the small river running past the house - No, villa!

Who to build it? I then had a brain wave. I'll call my good friend, the builder, Idu Chukumupp. You might well recall he built 'The Clacker', the pub in the inlet where the model of my tugboat ended up.

He agreed to come over and do the work. he arrived within a couple of days and brought my old buddies, the painters Meekan N'doodeelyd and Takdee Broosh N'Payunt.
I showed them around...

"Hey, honkey, dis am some pleeas you am got here" I thanked him.

I informed him he was to sleep in the empty snooker room. There were plenty of Mealie bags left by the departed Zulus.

"Day will do fine, man. Far better dan do's mettol springy tings you spooks sleep on!" said Idu. I agreed.

The work on the decking started straight away. The timber was delivered by an ex. pat. Brummie.

"Luvloy plyce yowv got eur, moy mite." I agreed

Two weeks later the two level decking was complete. Plastic card, wooden skewers and cut down coffee stirrers.



Time to give the orange growers another visit to sort out the water in the stream.....and, of course see what else the memsahib wants.

Cheers.
Ron

[JR]

570.
As I ponder where you could be classed as either a severe metal case or suffering from "Lockdown breakdown " I have enjoyed this trip into the world of make believe.
However I have email Matron and she was so concerned she has gathered up her equipment and has checked the tire pressures on her bike.

Hear she is about to set off.
Yours 453

[Jim R]

Hi Mr and Mrs Ron
Thank you for the story and the model. A real tonic in these strange times.
Keep up the modelling and the banter.
Jim