Painting and lockup.

Another milestone - both 25 and 27 Chapman Place are now at lockup stage. All external doors and windows are in, and much of the external painting is complete. The individual characters of each house are becoming a bit more defined.

Number 25 has eaves with the exposed black-painted rafters, and therefore we've gone with black framing on all the doors and louvres in this house. The plain zinc roof, visible from beneath the eaves, is echoed with the use of the same zinc to partially clad the house. The remainder of the external cladding is fibrous sheeting, painted a neutral (but slightly warm) grey.

We have chosen to use Wattyl Solagard external paint, as it is a very good Australian made and developed product, well up to the task of coping with many years of baking Queensland sun.

For Number 27, we have used doors and louvres with white framing.

The eaves of this house are lined with natural cypress timber, so we chose a complementary warm buff brown colour (called 'Koala') to paint the fibro cladding. We like the contrast between the areas of white Colorbond cladding and the painted fibro, which both look good against the timber-lined eaves.

Now, I'm working on doing the finishing work to the exterior - installing the remaining timber cover-strips to the fibro cladding, and the timber in-fills between each exposed rafter on Number 25. Then it'll be time for a final coat of paint... before getting on with the interiors.