A shell becomes a room

You lose a little and gain a lot... Our house has become even more open plan with the great outdoors, with the external walls from the kids rooms now totally gone, allowing you to leap into the basement from a great height.



But then they've core-filled the walls with cement (see the little slots down the bottom of the wall are now full), put in the big cross beams for the walls above, and laid steel across all of it for the main extension slab. The little white tubes are conduits for electrical wiring.



A slab floor, four walls and a roof add up to a room. Our basement is now a real space!

Looking towards the stairwell


and looking towards the window (or "loading slot") ...

The big beams are underneath the walls for the kids bedrooms. We may put in a false ceiling later to hide them and any of the other under-slab stuff - keep in mind we have a very high ceiling here (almost 3m). It's seriously exciting to have our first new room from the renovations, even if getting into it is a little bit of slide and stumble down the (invariably muddy) dirt ramp - for now.