Inside Painting has started.....& no kitchen tile!

Quick update...

The ceiling has had 2 coats of paint.... the internal walls, 1 coat.

The painter was at the house tonight at 6.30 pm - he's starting to fill all the nail holes made when the carpenter nailed the skirting boards etc. on.

The security fence around the outside has been taken down.. it looks so different.

Did I tell you the big folding doors at the back were wrong. The manufacturer made them about 10 to 15 cm too small, so if you're 6 foot and visit my house, you can't get to the alfresco area without ducking your head as you go out the door! The builder said he wasn't trying to influence us, but he could probably get us a discount if we kept the doors. We all agreed that they were too small and so the company will have to make a new set PRONTO!

The tiler is coming tomorrow to do the front portico in a dark grey tile. We cannot find a tile for the kitchen, so am considering doing a glass splashback.

The stone benchtop should be put on this week. We needed the kitchen splashback tiling done after this, but we are stuck trying to work out what to choose.

We were going to have plantation shutters at the front of the house, however, the curtain man told us that our last quote isn't valid and the shutters have gone up 30% That's a HUGE increase, so we said we don't think we want to do that. However, he measured again and gave us another quote which was only slightly up. We saw a fabulous roman timber blind we loved for all the back rooms, at a very reasonable price, however, they only are made up to 180 cm... wide, we need 210 cm. So we are at a loss of what to do now.

The yard has been levelled and cleared. The driveway has been prepared and the concrete will be laid any day now.

We really are on the home straight now!