The walls are rendered, and the area is paved (29 December 2006)

We're getting there!! After finishing most of the structures, we hired a couple more professionals to help us.

First, we struggled finding someone to do the rendering of the walls - no one wanted to take on the job without warning us that they could not guarantee their work. In the end, we found Dino Barros from ABC Textures (02-9554-7889), a specialist in textures finisges for internal and external rendering. After observing the finished job, he decided he could deffinitely do a quality job on the render.

After he ws done, we decided to hire some help for the paving work, to ensure that the levels were right. Our trusted handyman had recommended Joe, who did an absolutely awesome job, as can be seen from the photos.

With the help of these 2 professionals, we are getting to the point where this is taking shape. We're not that far!!!

The pavers coming from the new area to the garage entrance

Rendered walls and paved area... looking good!

In this last stage, we also decided to make the lawn
a bit bigger than in the original design

The back of the water feature is made of
black stones, giving a nice contrast to the
light coloured pavers