Lights, Camera, Action - Electrical Light Up!!

Photo overload today!! Yesterday when we went past we were lucky enough to get inside as one of the doors had been left unlocked. We made the most of the opportunity! As well as taking lots of photos and having the freedom to have a careful look around, the main reason I wanted to get inside this week was to give the floors a good clean. The carpet will be close to going down and the floors are sooooooo dusty and dirty. You would assume that the floors would be vacuumed cleaned beforehand but I honestly don't trust they would be. The painters had swept the dirt away from the bottom of the staircase but it all sat 30cm away and would surely end up all through the house again. I actually took our old vacuum and started upstairs. It was quite a scene. Within 3 minutes of vacuuming the dust was pouring out the end of the vacuum and the room was thick of dust - I opened every window in a mad panic as it looked like smoke and the last thing I needed was the fire brigade turning up to a dust storm!! So instead, I attacked it all with a broom, brush and shovel. It was much cleaner (took a lot longer) and I opened the back and front doors which limited any dust. It's spotless now! By the time I finished sweeping, darkness had crept in. So I tested out all the lights! It was definitely a goose-bump moment!! It looks like a real house, like a house you would really live in!!! We were really surprised with the brightness of the downlights too. We had excepted that we may need to change most of the globes over to brighter ones once we moved in but they are great!! The photos don't really show the true effect of them - in real life is even better!  

Looking Through the Front Doors

Down the Hall (forgot to turn the bulkhead lights on)

(Dust Free Floors!!)

Stair Lights (with hall lights on)

Stair Lights Only - LOVE THESE!

Study - this room is super bright

Theatre Room

Downstairs Powder Room

Ensuite

Looking the Other Way Down the Hall

Kitchen - only had these ones on for a split second as even the dangling ones were working!

Clean Floors!!

Lounge Room

Laundry

Upstairs Activity Room

Upstairs Bathroom 

Upstairs Powder Room

Inside Progress

During the last week or so, there has seemed to be minimal progress. There have been different vehicles there all week this week so we knew things were happening, but we weren't sure to what extent. We had been counting down to Wednesday (yesterday) when my husband was meeting with our SS, to get a tour and an all important update. 

Upstairs Bathroom Shower Screen Installed

We wondered why they left the tile off the side of the bath hob - it obviously has something to do with the installation of the bath. Our SS explained to my husband that they cut a whole in the plaster to access the drain and connect it all. Hadn't thought how they would do that! Doesn't it just go in!!

Bathroom Tastic (heater and light)

Upstairs Bathroom Mirror.

I'll get a better photo next time. We extended the mirror so it covered the entire wall (not just the width off the vanity). You can never have enough mirror with girls......!!

Upstairs Powder Room

Mirror in, grouting done, waterproofing done, massive hole in the wall - done, extremely dusty - done!!

The Downstairs Powder is the Same - minus the hole in the wall!!

Theatre Wires Capped Off (is that an offical term - capped off. I may have just made that up... 

Happy they have pulled out the bottom left, right and centre speaker wires. Hopefully my husband doesn't have to punch 100 holes in the walls to find the rest. The term 'Like a needle in a hay stack,' comes to mind.....

Lounge windows look marginally cleaner - might have been the rain as they haven't been cleaned yet.

Plastering should happen next week - they were due last week. 

Then the glass splashback can go in (Butlers).

Plastering to be done here too (Kitchen).

Pretty excited about the pantry shelves!

Upstairs Activity Room - Niche on left for bookshelf and on right for desk/work-space for girls

Ensuite Mirror in! 

Surprised at the height of it - happy surprised! We raised the roof height to 2740mm so we didn't know if the mirror would also be higher. It is always the width of the vanity, but height wasn't something we had thought of. 

Still waiting on the correct size window with hardwood reveals in the shower. A & L, have made error after error with it. Right size, wrong reveals, then wrong size, right reveals, then wrong size and wrong reveals! Unbelievable! It will be here soon though...

Our Walk In Robe! 

So excited to have this space. Don't get me wrong, we had an amazing home previous to building this house. Full of love and character; but for 11 years my wardrobe (not walk in), had doors that you had to lift off the hinges to shut and I kept my underwear basically in a Tupperware container in a cavity space that you smashed your head on every second day. We can do a happy dance in this wardrobe!

The Girls Wardrobe - 

Going to add an extra rail in here (lower) and round the corner so they can use it independently before they turn 16! I can also use their clothes as 'time out' up high - if ever required!!!

Same in the Other Room

We chose not to put the drawer combinations in the further two bedrooms. One will be used for a guest room and the guests can deal with the rails! The two spare rooms actually have the larger WIR but the rooms the girls chose are definitely in the better position for light, heat and position. And their WIR's are not exactly shabby in size either. 

Outside tiles delivered and ready to go 

Eco Alabster Grigio Porcelain 300 x 600 

Can't believe I left this photo till last. Maybe because of my husbands poor photography skills in the photo (I'm bound for backlash after that!). The bricks above the upstairs door have been done!!!! Hooray!!!!

Let the rendering and tiling begin! 

The site has also been scraped and cleared! I'll get better photos of this tomorrow. The end is near...ish!!

Porcelain Tiles - Without Grout

The tiler had a busy weekend at our house, working both Saturday and Sunday. I ducked in Sunday to have a sneak peak and was so excited to see most the tiles finished. They are looking very special - even without grout/cleaning etc! He had yesterday off, but when I drove past today, he was back. So I might have some grouting photos in the next few days! The tiling in the ensuite is at a bit of a standstill till the window in the shower in replaced (with correct size) as the bottom reveal is tiled (it will also need to be waterproofed).

Ensuite
Floor Tile - Polished Porcelain Crystal Super White 300 x 600
Wall Tile/Bath Hob -  Polished Porcelain Alto Eggshell 300 x 600

(Caesarstone - Linen, Laminex - Polar White Silk)

Bathroom

Floor Tile- Polished Porcelain Smoke 300 x 600

Wall Tile - Polished Porcelain Crystal Super White 300 x 600
(Caesarstone - Urban, Laminex - Polar White Silk)

Ground Floor Powder Room

Floor Tile- Polished Porcelain Crystal Super White 300 x 600

Wall Tile - Polished Porcelain Alto Nero 300 x 600
(Caesarstone - Urban)

First Floor Powder Room

Floor Tile- Polished Porcelain Smoke 300 x 600

Wall Tile - Polished Porcelain Alto Nero 300 x 600
(Caesarstone - White Shimmer)

LOVE IT!