Practically completed

Today was "presentation", "PCI", the big check over for final touch-ups to be agreed upon before setting a date for the big key transfer ceremony.

Our SS, Luke, who I've previously raved about (and will again here) has been so on top of the build that we only had a hand full of really minor little adjustments and touch-ups.  He's built this home as though it's his own and he was so proud showing us around today.

Coz there's so little to be done, he's set a date for hand over.  And I have to add that I did a really good job holding back the emotions until these words came from Luke's mouth... "How's next Thursday, July 21 work for you?". I would have loved to have been composed enough to say "Why thank you very much, that would be simply delightful".  But since I'm not actually an upper class pom and more like a crazy woman whose emotionally strung out from this whole build thing, some noise came from me that sounded more like an actual sea elephant signaling it's mate than an affirmation of acceptance.

Piccie time;

 

I'm all out of words :)

Our house is stoned, man!

Rock 'n Stone, Delhi Bronze fine stack.  The rust toning will be more prominent after it's sealed.

We're nearly there...

Carpet is in.

 

Shower screen is fitted, ceiling dumper is in and the mirrors have been replaced.

 Look at all of that sun streaming in.  Mmmmmm.  Rangehood is in now too.

Now that we're in July, the fact that we'll be in this beautiful house THIS MONTH has completely smacked me in the face.  One of you lovely Avenue ladies mentioned having spare boxes.....  Could we please, please, please borrow them? :)

A-door-able

Mr. Jasper Gliderol has found his way home...

All of our robes have been fitted out in preparation for mirrored doors.  This is ours int he master which sits behind the floating bedhead wall.  I gotta say, I'm REALLY excited about having this amount of space.  At the moment, Loz and I share a quarter of this.  I don't have a lot of clothes, but I do like them to hang on timber hangers all lined up according to colour.  Aaahhhhhh.  Heavenly.

And we've even got crappers now :)  Loving those tiled skirts.

I managed to find a door open on Thursday, so I snuck off to have lunch with Mum first, then bought some cleaning supplies with the intention of cleaning out the bath cavities before they were fitted.  Would you believe that in the hour I was gone (might have been a little longer) both bath and spa were fitted.  Dammit.  So I cleaned anyway - and - oh my god this was hilariously embarrassing - I got sprung cleaning my tiles by my SS.  Poor bugger nearly died when he found me in the house.  And I felt like a naughty little girl.  Imagine next week's staff meeting... "You reckon that's bad, I found my client clad in rubber gloves cleaning the ensuite - what a loser!".  I reckon he's lucky I wasn't naked in the shower giving it a scrub!!!!!

Fix my sink

We've had a visit from the plumbers - fit off now complete!

 

Laundry;

Bathroom shower complete with screen & fittings;

And our kitchen has taken another giant leap forward - Sea Elephant time :)

 

Deb - One less thing to stress about :)

mirror mirror on the wall...

I need your help, assistance, opinions & feedback PLEASE!!??

(this is the display @ Lyndhurst)

 

The mirror dude has been out to measure up today and has discovered that our ensuite mirror we upgraded to is too big for one piece. So by the morning we have to decide whether we want to;

a) shorten the mirror back to standard (above vanity only)

reduce the length of mirror from 3.5m to 3.3m, and;
b) centre it on the wall, or
c) align to the left of vanity leaving a 20cm gap at the spa window.

or;
continue with the 3.5m mirror and have a join that is;
d) centered, or
e) in line with the vanity end, or
f) at the 3.3m mark near the spa window.

Happy to hear your thoughts...please??

Imagine being a mirror installer and having a bad hair day :)

Post tile post

Unbelievably, I managed a whole day in the office today but had this overwhelming urge to check out the house. So I picked up the old boy from work at 6pm and we headed off.

Could not believe our eyes when we rounded the corner and saw ALL of the lights on. Our fantastic tilers were still on the job finishing off the last of the floor tiles and cleaning the place up. 3 days - pretty good effort.

Our laundry;

Bathroom;

 

Now that it's done, I'm REALLY happy about taking the floor tile up over the bath.  Love the straight lines of it all & the white blinds and bath will tone it all down.

Ensuite;

And last but not least, the Powder Room;

I can't really describe this feeling of seeing these colours come together after picking them nearly a year ago.  I know they're not going to be to everyone's taste, but we LOVE it LOVE it LOVE it.

Tiler more

I HAD to go down to the house today (what a shame) to deliver our family of tilers an extra 60 white 100x300 tiles for the laundry.

No, don't panic, Carlisle didn't make a boo boo.  We did a little cashie extension to the bench top in our laundry and coz our SS is a seriously top guy, he let us buy the extra tiles, throw Mr. Smiley a little extra cash for his labour, and happy days - our whole laundry wall will be tiled.

I know, stop with the chit chat and show us the piccies already....

Up over the bath we've got "Loft - Dark Chocolate" in 400mm x 400mm.  This will go on the floor & shower base too.  The walls are just white 200mm x 400mm which we have on the shower walls too. 

Except for the yummy scrummy airstrip of Nickel Plus.  Still can't get a decent photo :(

I've managed to cull the 72 pics I took tonight of the ensuite down to these few...

 

This stage of the build is making it soooo hard to find the motivation to go to work every day.  I really just want to camp out at the house and break into applause with every tile that's laid.

Can anyone tell me what comes after the tiles are done? 

Won't you take me to...

For your viewing pleasure, I present you a 4 minute private tour of "The Orange House".  Don't let the dodgy camera work distract you from the lyrical genius of Lips Inc.  Enjoy :)

Next stop - Caesarstone City

Not a real lot of progress this week, but all of our kitchen cabinets are now in place anxiously awaiting their Caesarstone Osprey topping.

A close up of the "Wenge" Laminex up next to white;

 And the laundry is all done minus tiling;

Ensuite cabinet ready for a coffee break (Espresso Caesarstone);

Our Austral Mushrooms have been cleaned;

 

And we've got downpipage too;

Painters have been in prepping the window frames and they'll start getting some colour up on the walls during the week.
Our lovely SS is happy to open the house for us during the week to have the windows measured up.  It'll be great to finally meet him as we've only spoken on the phone so far. The ordering of window coverings makes it all seem so close now.  Exciting!!!