Still Getting Closer...

Anzac Day 

We had to go up to the house so that Geoff could wire up the outdoor power points for the Envirocycle and Water Tank and as usual, I had a sticky at what the painters were up to and wasn't disappointed

They're all but finished but will obviously need to come back once the flooring is down to paint the skirtings

Not long now until hand over, I scribbled down what I thought was still to be done to which one would assume there would only be a couple of weeks involved...we'll see!

1. Door Handles

2. Kitchen drawer replaced, glass shelving and doors installed, handle on bin pull-out, face on dishwasher (fully integrated) 

3. Flooring (starting 1st May)

4. Skirting put on

5. Skirting painted

6. Balcony rail install

7. Toilets hooked up

8. Mirrors and shower screens installed

9. Electrical fix out

10. Clean up both inside and out

11. Carpet Install

12. Iron bars on cellar door

13. Gas fire fitted

14. BBQ installed

So not much really and most of it is the fiddly stuff

Doors need a 2nd coat but looking great

How good does the entrance look

Looking towards the Guest Bedroom from the Entrance

Looking towards the Study and Entrance from Guest bedroom

Loving the detail of the stairwell

Looking at the stairwell from the Theatre Room

Will be adding the moulding to the Rumpus as well...this room will be used as the Formal Dining now

Family room

The Theatre room has had a 2nd coat but may need a 3rd on the ceiling!

The worst of going with a darker paint colour...shows up all the flaws in the gyprock and plaster :(

Definitely needs a 3rd coat

Powder room even gets the moulding and skirting not tiled skirting! 

My scullery

Shelves have finally been installed in the pantry! Still need to put the bottom one on

Can't wait to see the appliances in and the timber flooring against the white!

Leading up to Easter

The week leading up to Easter, the tilers were out on site finishing what they could as they were still waiting on the kitchen tiles to arrive. The carpenters had installed all the doors and did the architraves and skirting however, I noticed that they had put the wrong doors in the foyer and Theatre room. These should be swapped around! The Cellar door is on but am awaiting the ironwork which hopefully will be installed after the Easter break.

Ben (# 1 son) is coming up on good Friday (next Friday) to install the theatre platform...soooo can't wait

Geoff is getting used to the tiles in the laundry though is still waiting to make final judgment when it's all finished and we're finally in!

We've been trying to get a final date for hand over from the SS but he' s hesitant and keeps saying "I'll let you know next week"!

The kitchen benchtops have been put on as well as the outdoor kitchen and I am happy with the choice and cant wait to see how all the appliances look once they're in

I decided to do away with the niches in the ensuite after all as they were going to be at tile height. I have always said that they were put in too low but the SS didn't relay it back to the carpenters until the tilers came and by that time, it was too late to move them higher grrrrr

I did however decide to keep the one in the main bathroom, it didn't look too bad and now that it's fully tiled, it looks pretty good to me (forgot to take a pic of it) and will do

 Some more painting had been done though I really don't know why they keep coming and going, they should just wait until everything's done and finish it off in one go!

I'm a little unsure whether I like the capping in the bathrooms, I guess I will have to wait and see how it looks once everything is completed before I judge and if I don't like it then, I can probably just take them off?

The painting begins

We went up to see what or if anything had progressed on the house last night since the weather this week has turned awful

Our first thought as we drove up the service road was that nothing had been done, then as we got closer to the house we were shocked to see that they had started painting...woohoo

We were actually gobsmacked at how good it actually was and wondered if it was just the first coat or not cause as soon as we got out of the car to take a closer look, it started raining

Still, the photographer in me couldn't resist :) Nor could I resist getting a pic of the rainbow!

After we got home, I was going through the pics on my phone and noticed that the gable on the garage was done too, yay. Hopefully this means the alfresco trusses are on too and they'll start putting the tiles on them

Can't wait to go up again on Saturday and see how much more they do, until then...

Rendering

After a week and a bit of no activity, finally the renderers started and apparently there were up to 15 guys working on the house!

We were going to go up on Sunday (my day off work) but I just want to see it now so we drove up at around 6pm to take a look

They say the devil's in the detail and boy they weren't wrong, we were shocked to see how much detail had gone into it and seriously not knowing that there would be so much...yay

Hopefully they'll be back today (Saturday) to finish off and then the carpenters can come back and finish off the roof and gables

we are yet to see what they do around the laundry side of the house as they said it would be done in some type of light weight material! We assumed that would be something like 'Blue board' since that was delivered last week with the stuff they use for eaves but it looks like it was used on the face of the gable...see 1st pic below

Speaking of the eaves, most have been done and I noticed that they had delivered some (I thought they might have been the skirting) boards which were lying in the kitchen/meals so not sure what they're for

I'm not sure what type finish I want for the 4 gables but love, love, love to have some type of decorative finish in timber just to break it up

This is the side that's waiting for the light weight material

We even get some detail in the outdoor kitchen!