Friday, July 31, 2009

Home Sweet Home part II

I wouldn't quite say we are completely settled in yet, but we are definitely "home"! We promised ourselves that once we were moved in and all finished we would spend a whole day at home relaxing on the couch....(as much relaxing as one can do with a 2 & a half year old and a new baby).... and last Sunday we finally did it! We stayed home all day, relaxed, watched the footy, played with our boys and didn't worry about going to Bunnings or shops to buy things for the house or anywhere!!!!!! It was BLISSSSS.....Here are some more house pictures of finished product...they are a bit all over the place but you get the picture...


This is the "formal lounge"...in fact our 2 yr old has comandeered it as his play room and I am also using it as a quasi nursery for the baby as it is much closer to our bedroom than the nursery....eventually we will put nice couches here and this is also going to be the christmas tree room....we were going to carpet it but decided to put the timber floor in and just get a large (3.6x3.6) piece of carpet as a rug.



Walk in robe for master bedroom - it looks so much smaller in the picture....can't get the camera angle right....oh and excuse the mess...still sorting everything out ;)



Master bedroom...our bed looks so small in such a large room, we have to get more furniture!



Ensuite (yes we still need towel racks - add to list)

Laundry


Open living & dining area






Cooking is such a pleasure in my new kitchen!

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Home Sweet Home

No time to write - here are updated pictures of our home...most were taken before everything was finished...we have been living here for 5 weeks now and it is heaven!! Still lots to do, particularly outside, but we are waiting until the weather is better and until our new baby (8 weeks old!) gets into more of a routine...

Front entry feature





Formal lounge




Shower base & bath in kids bathroom


waterproofing membrane in ensuite shower



Side yard with exposed ag finished... we had it done at the front and the driveway as well


Kids bedroom


Almost finished kitchen with walk in pantry (it's huge!!) & Close up of finished kitchen!

Main family room!

There's lots to write about, overall we are very pleased with our build and we came in well and truly within budget...I could tell you all about it now but alas no time to put fingers to keyboard...need to sleep instead :)
Happy Building
(p.s. YES we would do it all over again !!)





























































































Friday, January 30, 2009

The roof is on!!

And the electrician has finished his rough in....we are virtually at lock up, chippie is working this weekend to do the final touches! Plasterer will begin next week!! Here are some more pics...








Friday, December 26, 2008

Getting closer to lock up...


Back of the house, doors leading to back yard.



Side of the house, this is where we will put the water tank and hot water service. Laundry exits out here as well.


Other side, this is where we will set up an outdoor entertaining area with decking, pergola, bbq etc. The other pic is the kitchen window above sink; it will be a lovely servery window to the outdoor bbq area.



Looking out from the kitchen to the open living area and vice versa. Guttering on the floor to be installed next week! It is Colorbond Ebony.



Recessed shower bases; we went to look at tiles last week - there are so many to chose from, it's going to be a hard choice to make!!



From the entrance looking down the hallway. The large window is in the formal lounge which will be known as "the christmas tree room"! NO tv, NO home theatre systems, just a nice quiet chill out room for reading or enjoying a cup of tea & a chat!



Front of the house with portico complete! Main bricks are Selkirk Blue Rain and portico bricks are Selkirk 50mm Tawney Heritage.
























Wednesday, December 10, 2008

busy busy busy
















We have been flat out trying to make things happen, so have not had a chance to update blog at all, above are some pictures I took throughout the past couple of months....Since then we've had the roof trusses and plumber rough in completed, and the windows installed as well but I haven't taken those photos yet!
Next step will be to get the roof plumber to do his bit, get the brickie going and the roof tiles on. Once the roof tiles are on, the electrician will do his rough in.....hope all of the above is done by end of jan when we can officially have lock up complete!
Busy times for us, but all is going well!










Monday, September 29, 2008

We have a SLAB!!






Here are some pic's of our lovely slab - it has been curing for a couple of weeks now and is looking fantastic. Our concreter did an excellent and very professional job, in fact he was so accurate that when we measured for our frame the guy was very impressed - he was virtually spot on!!