The front!

Here is the triple garage... I love the colours.
Here is the stone insert at the top of the portico. There are still little coloured "thingies" separating the stone, so if you see something poking out between the grey stone... they won't be there forever!!

Plastering is finished

The render has now been applied the the front - it was finished today, but these pics are from yesterday.


I love the colour of the wet render

The master bedroom - plaster is finished, it is just waiting for the architrave around the window.

This is the family room on the left and kitchen are on the right.

The front hallway and 1200 mm wide front door

Looking through from the kitchen area to the front door

Nice cornice? I think so

The electrician has cut out all the holes for the light switches and power points. He has also cut holes in the roof for all the down lights.

The roller doors have been installed - I love the colour.

The brick insert on the front portico has been finished. I'll get some pics for you tomorrow - I just didn't have my camera with me.

It looks SO nice!!!

Cornice is done!!!

The wall and ceiling plastering has been finished. The cornice was started AND finished today... yep, in one day!! Looks fabulous... must show you some pics.

The renderer has commenced the front and the job he is doing is magnificent. It is so smooth and even, it looks like a sheet of glass - so smooth!

There was something sprayed on the floor of the wet areas. Not sure what that was.

The floor tiles start tomorrow!! We are having 600 x 600 porcelain gloss tiles.

Lock Up!

We have a back step!!!

The plasterer has started and although the pics don't show it yet, he has put all the plasterboard on the walls and has started to finish off the joins.

The master ensuite where the shower will go and the cut out feature.

4 cute kitties...... We have a full house... no wonder we need a new house!

the feature ceiling

The family room looking through to the rumpus room.

The hallway near the minor bedrooms.

2nd bathroom....

Another view of the master shower.

The renderer man should of been at the house at the start of the week but hasn't been there yet. The electrician has started to pull through some of the power points. The final details and angles for the kitchen have been decided on. The slab has been put in for the water tank to sit on.

We had a curtain company measure up the whole house. We'll talk with them about what we want and get a quote.

Insulation is in

The insulation has been put in the walls and ceilings. It is about 90% done. The bricks have been cleaned and are about 95% finished. We walked around the house tonight and noticed a few bricks - not many - and a few spots where we are not 100% happy with the mortar... a fabulous change as we saw some blogs that had to have whole walls taken down because of shoddy work. Our bricks look fabulous. I am so pleased with the colour we have chosen. Even the builder stood admiring it and said "I have worked with these bricks before and they have nerver come up as good as these ones".

The plasterboard sheeting has been distributed into each of the rooms in readiness for putting up. It is starting to feel like "rooms" rather than large empty spaces that you can see through.

Can't wait for the instilation of the bathroom fittings or kitchen.

Somebody Wants our House!!!

The builder told us that someone had contacted him about our house and they said they'd had a "sneak peek" and wanted to look through as they wanted to know if he could build them the same house. The builder told them no, he couldn't show them through and no they couldn't get the same house as it is our plan. A very nice compliment indeed to think that someone loves our house so much and they want to also live it.

Brickwork Finished - Plaster Starting

The pic below is of the portico and the high ceiling inside.

Plasterboard, blue data cable and white electric cables..

The insulation will go in tomorrow.

Here is the front which I love. The portico brickwork is finished. The top section of the portico will have a grey stone insert. The roof is Woodland Grey and the fascia and gutters Dune. It goes really well with the bricks around the back. The front of the house will be rendered in a colour of similar tonings to due. And... who is that handsome devil in the pic??!!! xx

Here is the portico and front windows of the master bedroom.

Another view of the house... the neighbour looks close, but the pic is just deceiving...


The water in the pics is from the guy who cleaned the bricks with a high pressure hose today. They look great. The concrete man is going to come and put a few more footings into the alfresco area and he'll lay a small slab where the rain water tank will go. We put this around the "dead side" of the house so it is out of the way.

The plasterer will start tomorrow. He was supposed to start today, but there was a lot of water around because of the brick cleaning so I guess he didn't start for that. The builder said he'd take approximately a week because of the fiddly and high ceiling heights.

The "render guy" will be in this week but it won't be painted until the end.

Data Cabling is done

The electrician has finished his work for now and will be back when the plaster is on.

The plasterer will commence this week - we were told tomorrow or Tuesday.

Data cabling was placed in 5 rooms.

The brickie had to get a new pallete of bricks delivered so he can continue.... there were a lot that were chipped or not suitable. So he's 90% done.

We were supposed to confirm the kind of Water Tank we wanted but we forgot to to Reece.

We went to a door store to look at the kind of glass we wanted however, the sales guy was SOOOO rude. We got the brochure and asked him if he had samples of the glass and he replied in one word with real attitude..."nooooo". Okay then... forget us buying it from your store.

We looked at carpet... we had seen carpet we liked in a house but we thought we might get a carpet slightly darker so not to show stains. The sample we wanted was "out"... someone had taken it to look at it in their home against their colours.... We'll go back next weekend..... so that's it for now!!

Electrical Work

Hello all! We saw the electrician last week and went through where we wanted powerpoints, light switches, tv and phone points. The electrical work has been started and they've run all the cabling and have put the switch plates in position. The electrician just wants us to come back any day to confirm that is ok as the plasterer is going to start.

The brickie is about 80% finished... he's going down to the wire with his bricks... there isn't that many left. The horrid red/orange bricks have been put on the front where the render will go... I am sure our neighbours think we are nuts to have such a yuck colour. All will be revealed soon though.

We had thought we'd found the perfect water tank, which was a godsend after all they are mostly so UGLY. However, the builder rang us tonight and told us that Reece had made an error and the relatively non ugly tank we liked did not come in a colourbond Jasper colour. So, we are trying to decide on what to do... go with an ugly shape in the right colour, or go with a good design, but in a green. My question to designers... why do you make water tanks in such ugly shapes and designs?

Did I tell you the bath framework has been put in, with heeble stuff around it (the tiling will sit on this)? We can see where the bath will be... the builder has chosen the same bath for his house as I chose.... so it is a very nice one. Our builder is definitely not trying to palm off "cheap and crummy" fittings to save a buck!

P.S. I am having tuna bake for dinner. Yum.