The Kitchen arrives!

Today was definitely one of the most exciting deliveries! (The bathroom tiles and the floors were my next two favourites!!) Elias manufactured our kitchen off site, according to our specifications, and then began the installation today. From the pictures you will be able to see this is done in pieces, e.g. the polyurethane cupboards and draws come separate from the stone bench top. We decided to go for 'alpine white' 40ml waterfall bench, I cant wait till that is delivered! The gap in the island bench is for the dishwasher, and the kick board hasn't been placed on yet.
This picture is for James, as he said John doesn't feature enough in this blog :)
This is my beautiful 90mm oven, imagine the Masterchefing I will be doing in there!
Our pantry and laundry cupboards were also made by Elias which were installed today too...
In other news, Joe informed me we seem to have a spider issue in our area, probably due to all of the excavation that is going on around our block. This is very concerning for me, however, Joe said he has a pest guy who will soak the house in spray if needs be, so I am slightly comforted.
John's great idea this week was...why don't we get a pool? Initially I said flat out NO. Then he kept going on and on about how great the price is that he's gotten, and that it will increase our house value by $50,000...etc etc. And now I'm being worn down by his constant references to swimming and sun...so we are considering the option. The pool would be resin and not concrete/tiled. I'm not sure I know what resin actually is or looks/feels like, so we will go to the pool place on Saturday to check it out. If anyone happens to know about resin pools, please let me know!
Sariah :)

A few more Pics...i'll let them do the talking

Colours and Tiles

On the weekend we spent the day at the house trying to pick colours.

Why does choosing a white have to be so hard?!?!?!

We picked a few colours and Sariah painted them on big pieces of cardboard so that we could hold them up against different walls and see what they'd look like.
Turns out we picked the wrong white so it was off to Bunnings to see what else we could find. Needless to say I got completely well and truely over it by the end of the day but I do feel good with where we got with it all. Colours sorted! :)
The tilers were there all day Saturday and I must say the tiles are looking hot!! Here's just a snap of the feature wall in our ensuite. Kinda hard to see from the pics but it is looking great! Well done Sariah on the picks.
Fred the cleaner was also there on Saturday and it looks so beautiful now the scraps and dust are all gone. We've filled 2 full skips thus far, Joe has made sure the house has been clean through every step which we're very grateful for! Fred's back Tuesday to do a complete clean ready for the floor to be installed on Wednesday....so excited!!

A few quick pics

Hi All,

Things have been moving at a rate of knots this past week.

We have doors, window frames, STAIRS and tiling has begun....hooray!!!

We have walls!!!!

We've been a little slack in blogging lately.......by we I mean Sariah......j/k.

So much has happened!

We had a massive rain period here in Sydney for a few weeks which delayed everything for a little while. We literally needed one more day of sun to get the roof finished but it wasn't to be. So as soon as we had a dry patch the roof was finished and it looks hot!

Next came all of the roughing in for electrical and plumbing. Jared was kind enough to come and help me wire up the house with Cat 5E cable to network the whole house along with speaker cable in the roof for when we put some surround in.....one day.

I went and met with the kitchen dude aka Elias. He is a great guy and brilliant at what he does. We designed the whole kitchen, picked colours and we're getting Elias to quote on the glass splashback.

The gyprock came next, we can't believe how dramatic the change is! I went one afternoon and the entire downstairs walls were in and the upstairs roof was in....I couldn't believe it, there were about 10 Korean's running around the house and they were ripping along! They then piled into one van and took off......classic.

A few days later and the whole house is gyprocked and the cornices are half up. It really does look amazing now that rooms are really coming together. I think there's one or two days to go with the cornicing and then it's just flooring, kitchen, bathrooms and painting to go.

The first time we went to see the finished walls Sariah was so desperate to see upstairs so I boosted her up the 2.8 metres for her to have a look...she got absolutely covered in white dust, work clothes, face and hair all COVERED in dust....she's crazy....which I love!

Sariah and I have been stressing out about the colouring this past week. Every decision has been so easy thus far but this one was tough! We had a heap of help from Tamara and Caley on our best colouring options and we just finalised our decisions last night.....Sariah was right......again.......we're going dark timber floors with a heap of white everywhere else. You'll just have to wait and see!

Not long to go now, we're thinking a conservative 6 weeks but Joe is thinking it will be a bit quicker. Joe has continued to be fantastic, he's always just a phone call away and he has had all of the answers....definitely taken all the stress out!

Till next time....you stay classy!

The roof!

I'm back! I thought John might have gotten a taste for blogging and taken over my job...I was wrong :P

Anyways, so much has happened with this awesome house!! The bricks are completed now, they still need to be "washed", or chemically high pressure hosed, or whatever it is they do...I'm not sure! But they are all in place :)

The carpenters came back to put the finishing touches on, like the floating walls, niches and bulkheads.

Next came the gutter and fascia..colours were chosen to fit into the scheme of the facade, and look great!

Our next big decision was the roof tiles. We went with "Midnight", and they look awesome! We had to choose between the flat type and the curved type. The flatter they are, the more expensive they get, so we got the mid-range 'curviness', and I do not regret that, I actually prefer them ! (I know I'm a little biased) ;-)

They have also installed our balcony door, plus the alfresco stacking doors...and wow!! It really makes the room!!

To top all of that progress off, we went shopping on Saturday, and added substantially to our growing furniture collection. We purchased a dining table, lounge chair, buffet and coffee table. As pictured below! :)

We have more bricks...........

So, after watching Julie vand Julia I really feel so much more inspired to blog........

Sariah went to the house today and we have more bricks! Most of the brickwork is finished and they are due to complete tomorrow.

We spoke to Joe today and he said we will

 have the house to lock up by the 20th of January.....so freakin excited!

We just need to pick roof tiles now which will be happening this weekend. It'll be between black and charcoal.....and 17 shades in between. Who'd a thought how tough these decisions would be!

Well....i'm all blogged out, maybe that movie really didn't inspire me as much as I thought....

Stay classy!

John