All materials used here are of the same type and size as in the main building. The only difference is the roof construction. We use roof trusses to save time. The photos also show our temporary shower and toilet "building". Soon we will be able to demolish it, we hope.
	The bathroom is now almost finished. We have a Japanese bath which is short but deep. The shower can't be seen on this photo.  Britta's room
The toilet is a composting toilet type "Rotaloo" and has worked very well since June 2006. The colder winter months did not create a problem. Update July 2007: the toilet has continued to work well for over one year now.

	Torsten enjoys working with coloured glass and lead. Quite a few pieces of his glass art can now be found around the house

The building work is finished, sort of. There is so much else to do, but the house is complete. Time to relax and...    ...build another house.

 

A Kookaburra inspects our new verandah

 

Tasmanian weather extremes: 2006 has been a very dry year with large bushfires in the South of Australia. We are lucky, the smoke of the fires clouds the evening sky, but we are safe. Just a few weeks later the rain doesn't stop and our water tanks are full again.

 

The "finished" building project:

 

2006 was a busy year for us in the orchard and the vegie garden as well. So busy, in fact, that we have dedicated a complete new website to Permaculture and organic gardening in Tasmania: grow your own food