OMG...

 Just received some more pictures from Tii they're a little blurry but check out how gorgeous the stairs are without all the tape! One word sums it all up...OMG

Progress, progress, progress

Since I didn't have to start work until 1pm today, Geoff and I went up to the house to check out the flooring and to see how far the guys had gotten too

Tii had been in constant touch with me through the whole time yesterday and sent through some more pics via email and boy was I excited just seeing those so can you imagine my surprise when we arrived?

As expected, 2 of Tii's installers were well at it and obviously had been up there for a while before we had arrived.

Like the troopers they are, hard at it again and working consistently to get it finished in time

I took one look at the stairs and was immediately impressed. I can not wait to see it all once all the protective covering gets taken off so I am counting down that's for sure

Remember, if you EVER want to have your floors look as amazing as ours, don't hesitate to get Tii to give you a quote, you WON'T regret it trust me

Take a look for yourself...

The flooring...

So excited for today as we wait for some progress photos from our flooring guys here who are starting on the flooring today yay :)

Tii (our sales rep) kept me informed of what the guys were up too as well as sending some snaps on how it was coming along.

Of course and as to be expected, nothing ever goes to plan and they certainly hit some road bumps with the foyer steps!

Since they were going to start with the stairs, Ben had told Geoff yesterday that he wanted them to hold off on doing them today since he's going to be going up and down them all day doing the electrical and didn't want to be disrupting their progress so asked if I could get them to start somewhere else for the day and so I did

I digress! Now to get back to where I was in the beginning, the first bump was as I said, the foyer step...let me remind you of what it looks like...(the brick one)

see how the moulding goes down to it a fair way? Well, apparently (according to the chippie that we spoke to the Saturday just gone) the skirting doesn't go on that step, hence how low the that moulding is and how big the skirting is!

So the dilemma is, when they put the flooring down, there's a massive gap in the gyprock which won't cover the edge of the timber on the left side which leaves us with either, needing to put quad to cover it or we try to cut down the size of the skirting (which will look odd) and put it under the moulding to cover it or, get the chippie to remove the bottom moulding, shorten the sides enough so the skirting can go back on and then replace the bottom moulding again!

In my head, I'd so much rather the last option and believe it to be the best one for consistency

So after letting Tii know of what we'll get done, they continued the rest so they could start the stairs so that Ben could work on the outside electrical

Here's what he sent through last night...

The foyer steps

Can you just imagine how it'll look when the skirting goes back on?

From the foyer looking into the guest bed

The study

Looking back at the front porch

Looking at the stairs from the Theatre Room

The Cellar from the kitchen/family room entry

From the stairs looking towards the foyer

Look at how the top step looks seamless, you would think it was just 1 step down but in fact, it's 2 ahhhhh.....love it!