Paint, floor, the end is in sight

Hi everyone

Thanks for your patience with the updating. Truth be told that until just the last few days there hasn't been much to update! With the cabinets being delayed, the painting went ahead but not much else.

BUT NOW! The painting is done, the tiling is nearly done and the cabinets have been delivered. We truly are at the tail end now. We remain hopeful that we'll be in by Christmas but we aren't fussed if not. We'd rather the house be puuurfect!


Theatre room (note the cornices are up and the window edges are different colour to the wall)


Lounge room:



One of the bedrooms (again, note the colour scheme, we are really happy with our choices):


Pantry door:

"Strike a pose, there's nothing to it..."

This is our current driveway. We're thinking about exposed aggregate from where I'm standing with the camera, widening out to encompass the front pole and the portico. We're waiting for some quotes to come back before we decide:

The portico (door still wrong colour!)

The shower and niche in the ensuite have been water proofed:

This is the kitchen where the cabinets are going. I have no idea why they have left two unpainted spots when we aren't getting head high cabinets...

ON OUR NEXT TRIP..

Our tiles got delivered!

The bath got water proofed and sealed:

Again, this is where we want the driveway to go:

More shots for driveway discussions:

ON OUR NEXT TRIP DOWN...

The tiles were started to be laid:

This is the ensuite shower, with brick shaped tiles made of full porcelien. Very nice, and love how the pattern turned out:

Front door finally painted the correct colour (but the glass is still opaque when it should be translucent):

Our gutters are in, although not painted. We really should have got Colourbond but oh well:

This is the guests shower. Tiles are different, slightly yellow and are square:

The bath has also been 'tiled':

More installed gutters:

This is the guests bathroom cupboard. Its nice, and goes with the tiles:

All our cupboards finally arrived! *JUMPS FOR JOY!*

The theatre room skirting board now painted, same colour as around windows:

Tiling all but complete in the main areas:

Our kitchen cabinets:

Ensuite cabinets:

Ensuite again, this time from inside:

The door off the master bedroom has been stained again, each time getting darker. The darker the better:

Some grubby tradie wipped his hands on our wall!

Pantry, this time I've tried to capture the colour scheme of the tiles, skirtings, wall and roof but the yellow sun ruined the photo *grabs bat and ball and goes home*

Yup, the open. Good start.

The mouldings around the windows have been painted. I think this is the final colour...

Ok, not our house, but this is the driveway design we think we want:

And if we could do this with the portico, I think that would also look good:

Ok everyone, thats about it. Next update will be this weekend and I'm expecting that the tiling will be finished (including the grouting), bathrooms done, cabinets up and the electrics will come very soon. I don't ask for much really...

Thanks

Drew + Jase

A catch up post of EPIC proportions

Hi everyone!

Apologies for the slack updating over the past few weeks. Its been quite hectic here but thankfully the lead up to Christmas looks like it'll be slackening off a bit. Just what the Dr ordered!

I can't remember the exact dates but its been approximately three visits to the house in this update, so we'll just refer to them that way...


VISIT 1

We couldn't help ourselves. After driving 6hrs back from Mildura, we just had to take another 1hr worth of detour and swing past the house.

This is the facade - now largely complete.



Facade, closer, brickwork now all done (no render yet)



This is something I saw -- the brick overhangs the slab! But only by a little bit and only for the length of a brick. To me, it looked massive. On reflection, looking at this photo, I feel a bit of a wuss for making such a big deal about it...




The electrics have been roughed in:




The plumping has all been roughed in as well (ensuite):



Jase making sure that all our guests have left the theatre room after one of our gatherings:




The bath tub! I'm sure the plan said something about it being in the bathroom and not the formal lounge, but hey, its not like people haven't seen it all before:




The bi fold is in (from dining to large alfresco):




Jason pacing the 'step up' in the theatre room. Also, when the couches are swung around, it will make a convenient space for a stage show.

"Williams Landing Thesbian Group does Macbeth (in 3 acts) -- coming Summer 2056"




This is the electrical cables for the home theatre/surround sound/wall mounted TV:

Side view of the boring side:

Round the back of the house. I sure hope that the wooden planks aren't holding that wall up, they don't look too 'load bearing' to me...

Large alfresco:

Bi folds (from the other side):

Entertaining side of the house:

Entertaining side again:

SHUT THE DOOR! I'M IN THE BATH!!

Some tradie 'tagged' our house. His tag is 'Ballistic'. By now, the tag will be hidden behind sheets of insulation and plaster. I wish I were as cool as this person.

VISIT NO. 2

Approximately a week later, we visited again. Lots happening to the outside and on the inside.

Heating and colling installed in each room:

Even more theatre room cabling installed (now the surround sound has been wired in as well as the wires to the outdoor and kithen roof speakers):

The kitchen and dining room:

Grand alfresco:

From the front / entertaining side:

Entertaining side:

Boring side:

This metal thing is for the evaporative cooling unit:

The bath is now where it belongs:

... but it could do with a clean:

The thing on the right is the framework for the internal sliding door (between family room and theater):

VISIT NO. 3

This time, we had company -- our good friends Dave and Obie came for a road trip.

Yep, the front is still pretty much a construction site:

The facade (nothing much new, a bit more bricking):

PLASTER!!! WE FINALLY HAVE SOME SORT OF WALL STRUCTURE!!

Garage:

Hallway from just inside the front door looking down the house:

Master bedroom (gotta love the door shortcut to the small alfresco):

The ensuite - see the shower niche to the left? That all gets tiled when the shower is done. Its pretty cool:

Fold out doors from the formal lounge to the small alfresco:

Looking towards 'family room' (ie. the open plan bit in the corner) and towards the theatre:

Dining to the right, kitchen to the left:

The stage and rear window of the theatre room. Every time I see it in my mind I see two stools, a mike stand and bad karaoke (you know its gonna happen one day):

One of the bedrooms:

Laundry (note the 1/2 glass panel door? The bottom is wood so that we can install dog doors...):

The tradies used our bath as a stepping stone to put up the plaster, its all scratched. But I'm told it'll be replaced:

Someone had to write 'man hole' just in case we forgot what the hole in the roof plaster was for:

Obie in the closet for the first time in about 22 years... (we love you Obie!)

Grand alfresco:

The brickwork now that its all been cleaned and acid washed. Its quite a bit darker, which we like:

The bricks on the left have not been cleaned or acid washed yet, the ones in the right have - see the difference? We like it:

Boring side (cleaned bricks):

Entertaining side:

Entertaining side:

Front / entertaining side:

After three independent inspections, no one seemed to pick up the brick which has falled into the house:

Plaster cornices are up:

Phew, that was a big post.

Since these photos were taken (about a week ago), all the internal doors have been hung, the arctraves (hmm, spelling probably wrong) have been installed around all windows and doors and the wood between the floor and the walls have been put in. We didn't take any snaps (thought I'd lost the camera!) so the update next week will be another '2 week whammy'. We are told that the cabinets get installed this week, and the tiling starts shortly after that.

Thanks everyone, hope you have a great week

Drew + Jase