Friday, July 3, 2009

A quick progress update.

Our roof tiles are going on and our bricks have been delivered, just waiting for the roofing to be finished and then the brickies will start.
We're a little unsure of how the colours are going to come together, we know they wont be offensive, but we may not 100% love them. Straight away we notice our roof looks very brown. We initially were going to go with a more greeny/grey/brown colour tile but when our brick choices got changed at the last minute, we kind of got swept along with all the other choices too. I will say though, driving down through the estate, so many of the roof colours are variations on the colour grey, so it is nice to see something different. Seriously though, how much time do you spend staring at your roof anyhow?
The bricks could absolutely be hit or miss. We'll just need to wait and see.
So the word on the street is...... lock up should be complete in 2 weeks and plastering should be starting in a month. We're still waiting on delivery of our bi-fold door and butlers pantry window (the gap was cut the wrong size and height in our frame, but has already been picked up by the site manager and will be fixed when the window arrives). Other than that we asked a few questions about the build and raised some issues we had, and were told, not surprisingly, not to worry none of it matters the house will still stand! No, there was nothing major we needed to address and our site manager said he will continue (I think he meant start) to call us once a week for updates.
No guesstimate on when the house will be finished- fair enough- but we wait with bated breath.

Oh and......rain rain go away come again another day....preferably when we're in lock-up.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

It's a wrap!

Here are the photos from the weekend. We're wrapped up and ready for bricking. We've both been too busy and sick to get out to the site this week, but are heading out there tomorrow morning to meet with our site manager. Can't wait to see if our roof tiles and bricks have arrived.
Still a little foggy in the head, so I'll keep this post nice and short and let the photos speak for themselves. As there are so many photos I've made them smaller on this post, you can click them if you want to view them any larger (I think).


Street scape.








Looking up the lovely large entrance way towards the front door.











Walk-in robe on left (hers, his can maybe have a drawer or two), ensuite on right.







Lounge/Dining room. We've got 2.9m ceilings in here and are now a little worried that the two windows are perhaps a bit low and should have been raised slightly higher. Oh well too late now.






Our 2.9m ceilings and bulkhead in the kitchen- looking pretty.











Our laundry and a door Humphrey will get to know well.











Fancy a bath?








Looking down hallway to bedroom 3.











Outdoor room.











Highlight window in bedroom 3. For some reason I really like this room, I think it's going to be my favourite.







From the outdoor room, looking at Paul in the lounge (always so serious when he's on site!).







Roof roof.








Our eaves, we love eaves.











Gutter and fascia- very happy with our choices.








Locks for our door. Not sure why we have two when we've paid for one?











A few too many wines perhaps.











The trials and tribulations of life as a nail.








Our neighbours house is also going up and construction is just slightly behind ours. The race is on!