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

 

 

Waiting... waiting... waiting...

Not for the house... for the baby.  We hit the 40 week mark 4 days ago and I'm not the most patient person in the world... so getting antsy now... what better way to pass the time than to give a house update!

So much seems to have happened in a short time... It feels like a real house!  Doors, windows, roof, cladding, solar panels, wiring, internal plasterboard etc...

I went up recently to go over the final wiring plan with the electricians... it was a little daunting because I was having to make final decisions without Benj there and the wiring was going in as I was there!  But all seemed to go well and the electrician didn't think my lighting plan was dodgy, thank god!  We had to make a few adjustments to positions of some of the switches, lights and the fans too because of how the framing work had been done... but it all seemed to work out in the end. 

Colour choices have had to be reviewed too.  My original colour choice for the cladding, 'Blind Date', looked a lovely sort of coffee colour on the sample paper... but looked bloody purple once we got it up on the external wall!  So we went back to the drawing board (twice!) with about seven or eight different colours to compare.  We're finally happy now with 'Warm Neutral', double strength.  It looks like the internal colour might even end up being a quarter strength of the same colour but we need to see the large panels I've painted actually in the house to really be sure. 

Benj has ordered the 'Big Ass' fans (which have been delivered already) and the water pump.  So we're getting down to the details now.... lighting will have to be next.  We have to buy all the pendants and fittings.  I hope I can remember what I had originally planned!  We should've done this bit sooner... because I don't fancy traipsing around a lighting shop again with a newborn!  Oh well these things happen (when you have the organisation skills of Benji and I.)

Anyway... here are some of the latest images...

June 29, 2014...
Northern face.

 

 

 

 

July 19, 2014...

 

Final two colour choices... Warm Neutral (x2) wins... that's it on the right with WN written underneath.



Plaster board in the hall... looking forward to seeing the timber louvres which will go into those internal windows for the bedrooms.

En suite... little niches for toiletries.  One each. Mine is lower and bigger.    :)

Kids shower.

Linen cupboard.

Ceiling insulation - main living area.

And again... look at those lovely beams (with the black metal plates)... they will be our lovely exposed beams.

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Northernface again... note all the colour test strips. (And don't forget that ugly plastic water tank is just there for the builders and won't be there once the house is complete.)



 Southern face.

 Kitchen... note: Pantry (centre of photo);  Big metal brackets (left of photo) for two floating timber shelves;  All the wiring which was going in as we spoke on the final electrical plan day.