Kitchen and Bathroom cabinets!!!!

The day finally arrived for the kitchen and bathroom units to be installed!!   As they say, a picture says a thousand words....so here is enough piccies for  a couple of thousand words!!

KITCHEN!!

Looking from the Meals towards the kitchen sink

Looking in towards where the hotplates and rangehood will eventually be.

Our island bench....cannot have enough drawers!!

The island bench looking towards the upstand and the cupboards that face the meals/living area

The upstand on the island bench from the kitchen side....enough space to hide 'bits & pieces', to use appliances without little fingers getting in the way......and high enough to rest against with a cuppa or glass of vino!! :)

BATHROOMS

Family Bathroom

Powder Room

Ensuite

In all the excitement, I forgot to take a photo of the laundry cabinets....always next time!

Just in case you were wondering what the colours are, here they are:

Benchtops/Cupboards:
Kitchen:
Benchtop: 40mm Square Edge Smart Stone - Arcadia (Santorini Collection)
Cupboards: all in Wilsonart Arctic White - Lustre

Laundry/Ensuite/Powder Rm/Bathroom:
Benchtop: Frosty White Mirage - Wilsonart Laminate
Cupboards: Frosty White - Wilsonart Laminate - fine Stipple

In other news, the painting looks to be all finished for now.....they still need to come back and do the finishing touches, as well as the alfresco roof and a few other bits and bobs.....

What's next?  

We have got some landscaping happening next week - can't wait - it will really show us what we have to work with!! 

The plumbing and electrical final fixes won't be too far away....I have been and bought our towel rails and toilet roll holders this week which we needed to get.  Just need to sort out our video intercom/doorbell thingy as well as what we are going to do with our underbench lighting in the kitchen.
Oh, and we need to still sort out what we are going to do with our blinds/curtains......

We are getting to the pointy end though so it is all very exciting!!

Oh, and almost forgot - this week, P was working from home so I went out to get him a nice lunch and came back with a fridge!  ooops!!  ;)

Paint!!!

We finally had word that the painters were on site on Wednesday, so later in the afternoon we visited the site and couldn't see a thing!!  All the windows were wrapped in black plastic!   We could see in through the window at the front door however and think we could see that the internal doors had been taken off and were standing in the living area....

Really looking forward to seeing the house once it's painted - mainly to remember the colour that we chose! Flokati -the name of the paint doesn't help does it!! :)

oooh, plus we spoke to our construction manager and he thinks we are about 4 weeks away from handover!!!  Yippeee!!!!  That would mean we would be moving in over the long weekend in March!! Fingers crossed!!

If you are not busy over that weekend, you are more than welcome to come and help!! :)

Cornices are in!!

Well, as the title suggests, we have cornices!!!

Garage

Garage

Lounge room

Study

Main bedroom

Kitchen, Meals, Family room

Looking down the hallway from the mud room

Bedroom 2

Bedroom 4

Looking down the hallway from Bed 4

Rumpus Room

Looking toward the kitchen from the Rumpus room

From the front door

Now that the cornices are up,  the house is starting to look finished....well apart from kitchen units, bathroom units, door handles, flooring......oh and paint!!

Hopefully the painter won't be too far away........

In other news, I went looking locally for curtain quotes yesterday....am waiting for one quote to be sent through but the other place was able to give me a rough quote......and it was very $$$$$!!!!!!!   It will be interesting to see how the other quote compares......but I think we may need to start looking online (have already found one online site which also actually has a showroom not too far from here and may be able to offer measuring and installation......and their prices seem a lot more reasonable!!)  :)

Tiles!!!

We just popped past the house today and thought we would have a bit of a sticky through the windows, but building supervisor 1 wanted to try the front door and lo and behold...it opened!!! 

On closer inspection inside we found the tiling has been done on the floors in the ensuite and family bathroom/powder room.

Ensuite

Ensuite shower

Family bathroom

Powder Room

Despite the dust over the tiles, we are really happy with the colours!! It is very nerve wracking choosing colours from samples and trying to picture them on a larger scale.

And here's some better photos of 'the' front door:

Building inspector trying out the front door

Front door

Locked out!

A quick update:

As of today we are officially locked out!

We went to have a look this evening at todays progress and couldn't get in!  Despite having paid the lock up invoice prior to Christmas, we have been able to get in through one of the sliding doors, but it has now been locked!

:)

Tiles, Doors, Architraves........

So since our last update......we have........

Architraves & Doors!!!

3 Kitchen Pantry doors

Kitchen wall and the various electrical wiring!

Manhole in the laundry

Meals area

Looking through the doorway from the laundry

And yesterday we were pleased to find....TILES!!!

Ensuite

Shower in the main bathroom

Bath

and we now have a proper front door!!!

We have tiles!!!!

From the last update, the plastering has continued and all the walls are now complete - apart from the cornice.

Garage

Looking into the house from the garage

Looking towards kitchen from the rumpus room

Today we were pleased to find there had been a delivery of tiles:

Delivery of tiles

and some prep work had been done in the wet areas:

Prep work in the bathroom

Main bathroom

Ensuite