the countdown is on!!!

This is the feature wall, a bit hard to get the real colour in the picture but it gives you an idea.

Only 2 more days to go and the house is ours!!! Hooray!! They are still finishing up but it will be done. The painter is busy today finishing up all the spots where the other workers have chipped bits off and putting the last coats on the front door. The feature wall looks really great and he has fixed the paint colour on the front of the house. The kitchen is done, apart from a broken tile under where the dishwasher goes. The plumber is supposed to be there today to fix the broken pipes for the storm water and the fence guy is there today putting up our side fence. It is all systems go!! We have one problem that the builder picked up on yesterday, the wrong colour garage door has gone up, so that will have to be changed but may not be until after xmas but that is okay as they have noticed and rang us and asked what we wanted to do. We spent an hour just wandering around in it this morning trying to plan gardens and blinds etc!! So much still to do, but we will be there by Friday come hell or high water!!

The kitchen glass splashback is a deep crimson red, also a bit hard in the photos, it almost looks black.

8 days to go!!!!

Almost there!!!

Everything is looking pretty good. All that is left is the carpet has to be laid, the glass splashback has to be installed, feature wall painted, security screens to go up and the gas put on (which is supposed to happen today). There is also the matter of a few small problems which are going to be fixed if they haven`t already. The painter still has to repaint a part of the front of the house which he painted the wrong colour, the electrician has to come back and install some more lights as he mistakenly didn`t give us a batten light over the kitchen bench (and we were going to install some strip halogen lights there) so a repair would have to be done to the ceiling so it was decided by all that the best solution was just to install some more down lights over the bench. The other problem is the plumber has done a check on the storm water pipes and discovered the 1 hole we thought we had is in fact 4 or 5 so rather than patch it up he is going to dig it up and replace the pipes in that section - thank goodness for cameras that go down drains!!

D day is next Thursday and then we get to go through the house with the builder and see if we can spot any defects. Derek went through with him on Monday and said that the builder saw a lot more spots than he did so he is quite confident that in the main it will be fine next week. We will begin to move in Thursday afternoon and the main move will be Friday.We are very excited, can`t wait to be out of this house!!