In the shape of a girl...

 

On 7 August 2014 our little family became complete with the arrival of our wonderful little daughter.

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The only other things to add now are animals... can't wait to move into our new home to start this exercise!

Decking and other outside views...

Storage space.

The house we live in at the moment has VERY limited storage space: no built-in wardrobes, a tiny bathroom vanity, minimal cupboards in the kitchen, and no other storage, none! So we wanted to have plenty of storage in our new house... and it's looking pretty good as it goes in!!!

Walk-in-robe (my side).  A mirror will go in the blank space above the drawers.

Laundry.

 Walk-in-robe again.

Window seats with sliding draws underneath.  (Tops yet to come!)

Kids built-in cupboards.

My cool handles.

Kids buit-ins again.

More window seats.

Kitchen is coming along



 Bamboo bench tops... and note the exposed beams in the ceiling.  This is the island bench which the cook top will sit in.

That's the pantry on the left...

Living on solid rock....

We have the "privilege" of having the second hardest rock the rock-breaker has ever worked with on our block. Yay us. Wore out his drilling equipment. Excellent. This means the waste/sewerage system Benji wanted to use would cost an extra $50 thousand in earth-moving fees. Fifty grand! So we've had to go with a different system. We'll be using the "Krystal Kleer" (God I hate when companies use dodgy spelling!!!) which Benji tells me is a 6 chamber, 2 zone (aerobic and anaerobic) system which uses an air-blower and so 1 kilowatt hour per day of power, and also chlorine for disinfection - so this is not ideal... but we don't have much choice really. At least we still HAVE a choice.

 Look at all that rock...

Plunge pool bonus!

We were going to have a plain cement plunge pool... but Scott and Leon managed to score an ex-demo pool for us.  This is it:

these are the tiles that will go in front of the fireplace in the rammed earth wall:

Tiles for the fireplace etc

Of course we should have organised this ages ago... but why not wait until you have a newborn that is less than a week old to:
1. Choose cabinetry colours and handles (a drive all the way down to Yatala!!!)
2. Choose tiles for in front of the fireplace (they will be needed in a week!!!)

Cabinetry choices were easy:

- For the laundry bench tops - Cabernet Micro Matt

- For the cupboard doors etc - Classic white Matt

 

 

 

 

Handles...

For the kitchen drawers:

 

For the kitchen and laundry cupboards:

For the bedroom cupboards:



 

 

 

 

 

Tiles for the fireplace... I just loved these tiles but there is a delay in the shipment so they won't actually be here on time for when the tilers are ready (again we should've organised this sooner!!! damn!!!) Luckily Leon said he is happy to lay them himself when they arrive!  How awesome!  So we get to have these little beauties

...oooops the picture won't upload... will try later