our drawers arrived today

And with sheer joy and excitement, a little jump here and there, Chris and I are ecstatic to see the drawers in our hallway. They look pretty good to me.

This was Chris' face as he walked through the hallway...

'Phwoarrrrrr, farr out!'

The white one below is our overhead kitchen cupboard.  

These are our laundry cupboards. 

 Everyone ladie's dream....pot drawers!! Two Sets of them too- arent we so lucky!

wee weeeeee, my skirts are up ^_^

Not my actual skirt silly. The skirts for the wall, of course!

 

And we got a delivery of more material on Monday (i think it was).

 

And with the plasterer's magic touch, the walls are looking prettier by the day. A quick sanding should finish the job in these spots that are circled. We think that since he's put up the actual plaster walls, its now been his third trip of just sanding smooth the edges........not too long to go now. 

The skirting boy's toys..hehehehe

lock it in Eddie, we've chosen our floors .

after much deliberation, and i mean, much much much much deliberation, we've chosen the floors for our house.

• We had always set our minds on having 100% merbau or sydney blue gum or spotted gum timber floors. 

• After intense research we thought we could go with bamboo as it was a cost effective option. 

• Then after that we thought about engineered timber laminate floors - which is a hard wood with a small piece of the real wood on top. 

• That option too was a little too pricey. Then, we investigated the laminate floors - a picture of the real wood design placed on a plank of hard wood - this was much cheaper and it looked soo goood and i was much cheaper too. 

• This put a spanner in the works as the real wood and laminate are on such opposite ends in terms of material. And boy, laminate is gotten so good in the span of 6 months since we first started looking into them. I mean the scanned image of the wood is sooooo realistic, it could, i dare say, pass as the real thing.

So off we went getting quotes from our big carpet companies. After many many many many trips, we decided to go with Harvey Normal's special deal - with Wood Trends in the Merbau finish.

The one we chose is the dark colour in the middle, in the picture below.

We also decided with carpets in the bedrooms, theater and study.  This decision was huge and gave us a huge headache as it was a whole new material we had to research. But low-and-behold, the winners was: Smartstrand IQ150 Twist Carpet Flooring by Mohawk.

This stuff is environmentally green - as it made out of synthetic fibres containing (37%) a polymer derived from corn sugars. It's made in the States and we were really impressed with this advertisement for it:

VIDEO:  SmartStrand Zoo Challenge: The Carpet Wins!

And here are the colours we've gone with. A natural colour in the bedrooms...

And the chocolate colour for the theater and study.

It's at lock up!

It's been a while since my last post. Sorry about that.

So since then a lot has happened - the house is ready and is now locked up. The massive bill also came a long and burnt a big hole in our pockets, that's another 40% of the chunk of the loan gone to the house-

 kaaaa-boom!

And here's Henley's version of the 'Lock Up Stage'.... 3 bricks stacked to keep the door locked ..dear me

Pictures below show how far they got with the house. The house is also rendered, as we've gone with the classique facade. 

Bricking is also done - It looks amazing. 

floors, Sydney Blue Gum

Liking this look.....Its called Sydney Blue Gum Solid Timber Flooring

Chill please, chill

So we found some notes around the house. Seeing as the plaster has been done all around the house, there was this one board that wasnt nailed on for good reason...the plumber needed to gain access...how did I know? Through their lovely messages about each other.

Here's one from by plasterer about the plumber.... Found it quite funny...

Today they went to plaster the gaps and smooth the surfaces of the plaster boards. So far , looking pretty good....

The bricks feel like they are taking forever  to put on. I'm sure they'll be done by 24 December in time for lock up. The last of the bricking needs to be done in the front facade, the two pillars at the grand alfresco and all around the window areas.

Ceilings & plastered walls - almost done, yipee!!

It's starting to come together; walking IN and OUT of rooms this time.

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Pic above - looking from kitchen at Front entrance

Pic above - hall way to bedrooms

Pic above - from entrance seeing the bifold doors at the back

My lovely pink batons 

Lock up day any moment now........