Tuesday, December 22, 2009

I am SO EXCITED!

Matthew and I have just been over to the house, and it has really come along such a long way - in just a day! I feel so much more excited about it now! Probably helps that I've just finished work for the year too! Yay!


As promised (sorry its taken me a while loyal readers...) here are some more photos. I've gone for a detailed set. Above is a sneak peak of the ensuite off the master bedroom. I'm really pleased with the floor - and I absolutely LOVE the tiling! They look absolutely fantastic!



Here's a close up of the loo in the ensuite - though you can see the lights are still to be installed.

And well - had to show you this! My fantastic wardrobe! As you can see, its absolutely enormous! You may not be able to fully appreciate how big it really is from this picture, but I can assure you, it's big. And it gets better... There's TWO of them!
Because I know you appreciate my sense of detail, here's a close-up of the architraves and scotia. We've gone for a traditional approach, with colonial style architraves, and the style-ly scotia.


And here's the second bathroom - with bath. Only half the glass screen is installed here - hopefully the rest of that goes in tomorrow. Once again, tiles look great!




And I can't believe we haven't put up a picture of the spanky front door before - so here it is! It's a lovely glossy black, with a stonking great door handle. V. cool.
We went over to the house tonight to pick up a light fixture that turned out to be the wrong colour, and the electricians have gone to town! Most of the fixtures are in now - and the electricity has been connected. Its really starting to feel like a home now - and the lights look great. The under-cabinet lights in the kitchen are cool, and the pendant fixture in our bedroom (the one we bought back from Sydney on the plane...) looks absolutely amazing! The entry deck is very nearly complete - so we will actually be able to get in to the house from the footpath - and it looks great.
Can't wait to move in.

Monday, December 21, 2009

The sense of excitement is palpable...

Well, actually it's not, but I thought I had to say something like that... I have to admit that I am starting to get a bit excited about the house, but there's still so much to be done, well its hard to be too excited. I am kind of enjoying the furnishing things though - curtains, etc. Would be great if we could buy all new furniture too...

We are VERY nearly there! Last finishing things are still going in, and hopefully we will have electricity today. The final part of the deck is being built, so we might actually be able to use our own access off the footpath to get into the house soon - rather than having to use our neighbour's driveway.

Apologies to loyal readers about the lack of pictures recently! I have taken some - and will get them up soon! (Need advice from my technical director on resizing etc...)

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Scaffolding's down - the countdown is on!

Well things have moved on quite a bit!

The scaffolding has been removed, and the house is looking quite good really - if I do say so myself! It fits in with the neighbours pretty well too.



And here it is a bit closer - colours look great, and I'm really pleased with the windows too.


The builders are really not that far away from finishing now. The interior painting is largely complete except for touch ups and some other bits and pieces. The tiler is coming in to do the bathrooms, and the electricians are starting their final fix too.

House should be finished before Christmas!