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...

Flooring continued...

Geoff had to go up to the house this morning to move all the remaining electrical stuff from under the stairs so the guys could continue with the flooring under there.

Whilst there, he sent through some more pics of what's happened so far...check it out

                                       The upstairs sitting room...trust me, the fan is timber not black!

                                                                              Master Bed

                                       The underlay down and ready for the timber

                                                    Our load centre is in the garage

One of the many Clipsal up/down wall lights installed so far, and yes, they are a more modern light but Geoff refused to let me buy coach lights and really, the façade is more of the modern farmhouse than anything else so I had to give in somewhere and let him win 1 argument at least!

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! 

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...