Carpet!

This should be a quick post. Our carpet was installed over the last couple of days. They still have the carpet on the stairs and 1 bedroom to go. Apparently they will come back to finish of in a week or so.

Our colour selection for the carper and underlay is:

Carpet - Category 3 Lenton Brae in Desert Echo Colour
Underlay - Steplux Blue

Render is... Nearly done!

Our brickwork has been a lengthy process so it was good to see the render applied to the bricks. The renderers came by a few weeks ago and did the first coat of render getting it ready for the final colour coating.

Painting is almost complete.

I still find it really interesting that it seems like nothing much happens to a certain part then in the blink of an eye painting if finished - well almost. It's about a month ago that our painting first started and after a few hold ups because of other things going on,

Painting is underway

Yes, that's correct. Brick laying hasn't finished but they have started the painting in our house. I takes a day or 2 to go through the house before the first coat of paint is applied. The fix various bumps and knocks on the walls. At the same time there are people from the plastering back at the house fixing several areas that hadn't been completed and a couple more where they had to open it back up to get to something.

More Bricks are go!... But

So the brickwork has been quite a project on our house. As it turns out there were significant problems. First the bricklayer wouldn't start due to limited access so a new bricky was chosen. Then we missed the opportunity to start bricks because the team was stuck on another job meaning other parts of our build started instead. Then we had wet tapping delays so no water was available on site. When bricks eventually started we were happy and though we would progress smoothly from there. Nope!

Kitchen and Bathroom Cabinets Arrived!

As the title says the kitchen and bathroom cabinets arrived yesterday 9/5/2017 and then today they were installed. Most of out benchtops are stone so they are completed later on. Now that the cabinets are in they can accurately measure the bench spaces and make the benchtops to suit. It is really good to see the spaces coming together as our home.

As I guess a lot of families do, we spend a lot of time

Cornices & Plaster finishing

About a week ago the plaster was hung then this week the plaster finishing crew were back along with the cornice installer.

The plaster finishing took about 2 to 2.5 days. They installed the internal and external corners on walls, ceiling and bulkheads. Patched all of the joints and filled all of the joints and other areas that required finishing. Sanding of the filler was done a couple of days later.

Update August/September 2016

Time goes so quick.

The last few months have been very busy including our tender appointments, yes appointment's', and contract signing. We had 2 tender appointments because at our first appointment we didn't feel comfortable signing. It felt a bit rushed at the eleventh hour. We knew our site costs were going to be high but couldn't get costings until tender. It made it difficult to make decisions on what we can include and what we can't. At the tender they still

Colour Selections

Our colour selections were based around those of the Waldorf 48, Hyde Park at the Williams Landing display center.

It looks something like this on the outside...