bathroom and kitchen almost there

The kitchen is almost finished. the oven and cook top were being installed yesterday, Can`t wait for the red glass splash back to go up so we can have a look.
The bathrooms are also almost finished, waiting on all the glass.

we have colour!!

Today the plumbers are hard at work as are the electricians. The inside is beginning to take shape very quickly now. Derek visited yesterday while it was raining and discovered that we had a broken pipe from the storm water, he said it was shooting up like a geyser!! Good thing he went down, the other thing he noticed was that the painter had been back and had made a start on the front of the house and got one of the colours wrong!!! Phone calls to the building supervisor this morning assured us that the plumbers were aware of where the problem was and said it was caused by the guys who boxed up the slab - they stuck a star picket through it!! It will be fixed as will the paint, if it ever stops raining!!!! Thank goodness most of the work is on the inside now as I am beginning to think we are hardly ever going to get many fine days to run together again. As I speak there is more thunder!! I think you will all be shocked by the colours of our house as we decided to go very bright as everyone around us is very dull and routine. Derek says we look like the party house!!Tell us what you think. At least you will be able to find us easily. I think it looks great. The colour that has to be changed is the one that goes around the front door, it is meant to be the same as the poles, cranberry, not the same as the front of the house.

we have a date!!! Hooray!!

Our water views!!!!


We finally have a handover date - the 18th December. We will be moving in for xmas!! It will be a rush but we will be so happy!!
There still appears to be quite a bit of work to be done, but they assure us it will be finished. The electricians will be there this week, as we have to take the cooker down on Wednesday and the plumbers are also supposed to be there. The painter has been delayed by all the rain, so hopefully he will also be back this week. We went for a little visit today and found a window open so we sneaked in to have a look around (unfortunately I didn`t have my camera with me). The bathrooms look very good, all the tiling has been done and the vanities are in. I assume the sinks and the bath will go in this week when the plumber comes. The floor tiles look really good and they are all finished. On the outside we have the concrete pad down for the driveway and footpath, waiting for the pavers to be laid. I do have pictures of that! We also have very nice waterviews at present due to all the rain we have had up here. Luckily our property has had no damage but there have been a few places in the estate that have had a lot of fences and walls blown down.

it is so white (2)

Went down to the house today to meet with the tiler. While I was there the painter showed me where he had been painting outside and I have to say I was surprised, it looks so white!! We picked out what we thought was a pale grey but it sure looks white!! Hope it doesn`t turn out to be a mistake on our part!! Tomorrow, providing the rain stays away( which I doubt) he is going to do the colours on the front, goodness only knows what they will look like once they are on a large space!! More pictures on the weekend. He has finished the inside painting except for the feature wall which he will do once the tilers have finished.

The tiler is zooming along. When I saw him this morning to discuss the bathroom they had laid 2 rows of tiles down the centre of the house. I took Derek down this afternoon at 5.30 to show him the house colour ( and he also thinks it looks really white) and the living area looked to be almost all tiled and around the corner into the laundry!! It is amazing how fast they tile when there is a lot of workers!! Said he should be finished by Monday, I think they will be done by Friday at this rate.

Also noticed that the bathroom vanities have been installed and they look really good, very pleased with the colour. (not white)

It all looks very white!!

Well, where are we up to now? The outside is finished being built, just needs some paint ( and of course the garage doors). It looks like a real house now except for the back deck ( which will be finished once we move in.

The inside is well under way. The painter is very busy painting and tells us he will be finished by Wednesday afternoon as the tiler is due to begin tiling on Thursday!! So far it looks very white with the undercoat and none of our feature wall done yet. The kitchen is taking shape as is the laundry and the bathroom furniture is all in the middle of the lounge room floor waiting to be installed. Its all very exciting!!

Jack ( for anyone who is interested)

For those that are interested here is a little peek at our boy in action!! He gets around so fast now there is no stopping him and he wants to get into everything!!

what are we up to?

Sorry I have been a bit slack with my posts, but since we have reached lock up stage the progress seems to have slowed a bit!! Anyway we went down there today and unfortunately we couldn't get in ( hence the term lock up stage), however peeking through the windows (which is really hard as they put this coating all over the windows to stop you looking in, I`m sure) we did manage to see that we have kitchen cupboards and the sink is there waiting to be installed. We also have internal doors and all the wet areas (for the bathrooms and the laundry) have been sealed. As for the outside the front portico has been finished and the walls have been bagged though not painted yet. The down pipes have been connected (well some of them) to the drainage and we have a new side fence. So hooray for progress!!! I am going to go down this week when the workers are there so I can go inside and have a good look around ( especially at my kitchen). We also noted that the wood for the front of the house was there waiting to be nailed up.
As for the mysterious turf we have more, though as no one is watering it it is slowly dying!! The other thing we seem to be inheriting is peoples rubbish!! I don`t understand why people feel the need to dump their rubbish on my block of land eg old ironing board, microwave etc!! I want ctv footage so I can find them and dump it back at their house!!!