Its getting there

Well it has been a while since my last post - mainly due to holidays and Christmas - but more importantly now it is at lockup we can't go and see what's happening as easily and everything is happening inside the house.

The builders are now on break over Christmas and New Year but we did manage to see some of the changes before hand.  Here's a summary:

Kitchen/Living

The benchtops are in now as is the tapware and sinks (and they work).  The appliances are not in yet.
Most of the painting is done but only one coat for the feature wall.

The sliding doors have been stained which makes them look amazing and they have come up a lovely colour.

The butlers pantry and laundry are complete with all the cupboards, shelves and sinks in.

The waterfall benchtop on the island bench



Close-up of the benchtop

Bench with the gap for the cooker and rangehood

Looking towards the family room and feature wall with only one coat.

 

The stained doors

View into the Butlers Pantry

 Look at all that lovely storage in the butlers pantry

Butlers Pantry sink and bench

View of the laundry looking from the Butlers Pantry towards the hallway

Another view of the kitchen

Master Bedroom/Ensuite

The master bedroom has one coat of paint for the feature wall and the sliding doors to the balcony have been stained.

 

The ensuite is where the biggest changes have occurred - the bath, shower, vanities and mirrors are all in.

 

The walk in wardrobe has all the hanging cupboards completed.

 

The ensuite shower tiled but no plumbing or shower screen

 The ensuite vanity before the mirror or taps

Feature tiles around the bath

The stained sliding doors out to the balcony

The feature wall in the bedroom

 

Ensuite vanity with mirror (hello us!) and taps.  We didn't realise the taps would be to the side - 1 picture in the plans showed them to the back and one to the side.  Not sure we like them like that but we will see.

Ensuite - vanity and shower all complete

Our wonderful looking spa bath - the gap looks straight through to the master bedroom so we are thinking about getting some shutters to go in there

Dressing Room

Lots of hanging space in the dressing room

 

 

Bedrooms/Family Bathroom

The bedrooms are all complete with their walk in wardrobes all completed.

 

The family bathroom is also complete with shower, bath, vanity and mirror.

 

Annabelle's room

What will become the study

 

Family bathroom bath

Family bathroom shower

Family bathroom with double sinks

 

 

Guest Bedroom

This is all complete with everything in the ensuite downstairs bathroom. This is a lovely room which I think the Grandparents and other visitors will really enjoy.

 

Guest Bedroom ensuite

Guest Bedroom ensuite shower

 

Rest of the house

The Heater controller is in (with both upstairs and downstairs controllers) and this is both heating and ducted air-conditioning.

 

The stairs are largely done and we just love the double height windows at the bottom of the stairs.

 

Stairs and double windows

Hallway looking away from the front door

Heating controller and return air in the main downstairs hallway

Walk in Linen cupboard upstairs (there is also one downstairs)

 

Frederik's Horror

So I think this is one for the boys - as this was Frederik's horror and I wasn't so disturbed.

 

He said to me "the portaloo's gone that means that they will be crapping in our toilet - that's not right"  I was "well that is what a toilet is for, whats the big deal?" and he said "but its OUR toilets!"

 

So he was concerned about this and mumbled something about it everytime we went past..."our toilets..."

 

And guess what he found when we visited...

Yep proof the builders used the toilet :-)

Well to end on some laughter.

 

That's all for now, they are expecting to finish early to mid February so we will be in as soon as we can after that - around mid-March. 

 

Unlikely to be any more photos until the finished product with furniture. 

 

We can't wait and we can't believe how close it is getting.

Thanks all for reading.