Lights...

On our way back from the house yesterday we got a call from Oz Design telling us that my chair for the Ensuite was in...they could have told me earlier as we had been there that morning.

So, today we took both cars so we could pick up the chair and our lights that had come in at Beacon.

The chair was gorgeous, being an Australian made chair I could pick any fabric or leather that they had in the store...good grief...decisions, decisions...too many for me to think clearly.  I had narrowed it down to a choice of two fabrics, a white with navy lattice design or a oatmeal coloured one with alternating gold and blue in a lattice pattern.  I liked both, changed my mind on numerous occasions before finally settling on the oatmeal coloured.  Am sooooo happy with it, it looks a treat.....and before you ask, no, I don't have pics as its covered in plastic and has gone into storage for the next few months.
Once we have moved I will post pics of all the lovely new furniture, especially those that i had made to order.

We had put all the lights for the house on layby in April 2009 and I had been paying them off until about christmas time. the manager at the DFO store is so great, she didn't order them for me until i asked her too, which was about 3-4 wks ago.
90% of the lights, lamps, fans & globes had come in, so to clear space in the shop we packed the back of the  Santa Fe with the lights and took them to the storage unit as well.
Just as well all the lights hadn't come in yet cos i don't think they would have fitted into the car as it was full to the brim.  Once at the storage unit we had to open each box to check that nothing was broken, time consuming and it was raining so we could only take a few at a time in there.  Luckily everything was fine.
There is only a handful of them left to come in, but as there's no rush we are not worried, the only worry is the two wall sconces that Tony ordered for the Home Theatre room, 6 weeks ago they were available but now they are a deleted item, the manager did a look at other stores and has found some at Watergardens, so hopefully we can get them cos it took Tony so long to find something that he liked for the room.

Fix walkthrough...

Well.... today is day 98 of 222 days allowed for our build.

We had arranged with our SS to go through the house today at 1pm for a 'fix' walkthrough.
We arrived about 7minutes late due to roadworks everywhere.
Any hoose our SS told us to just go in and look where ever we wanted..whoo hoo....fancy telling us that, as he had/was going through the house writing up small things for the fix carpenter to finish off.
After we had gone through and taken the obligitory millions of photos we got together with our SS to discuss items we weren't sure about.....mind you most or nearly all of this list we had compiled at home.
The list wasn't long...things like the missing tiles above the garage...the crane driver had broken them getting the garage lintel into place........
Deadlocks,  the french doors were supposed to have them installed on both doors, but for some reason only the one in the master bedroom had them, and then in the wrong colour (well it was wrong according to us)... the door handles on the french doors are both in a gold colour while the deadbolt that was installed was in a antique brass colour.....hmmm, doesn't really look that good together, as for the door in the lounge, according to the paper work it wasn't supposed to have one...I think not, someone has goofed.
As yet our 2 external taps at the rear of the garage haven't been installed...that apparently will be done when the plumber comes through.....also they will get the plumber to straighten up the two water meters out the front, the bobcat keep knocking them askew.
On one of the Alfresco pillars, it has both a downpipe and an external power point, when we went in to sign off on the final drawings we bought this to the attention of our CSC....she went off to check and said that is should be okay...we were prepared to move the power point.....at this stage we only have half a downpipe cos, yep, you guessed it, the power point is going to be in the way.
Spoke about how handover is conducted etc etc...

At this stage we are on target give or take a fortnight (this will depend on when the remaining tradies are available to start)....can't wait..... we realised the other day that our stuff has been in storage for so long that we are having trouble remembering what exactly we have in there...sad :(

We went to the pub for lunch...not impressed, over priced and not that nice, but, we got to sit beside the open fire....yummmo.....it was heavenly :))
While there we realised that the carpenter had the ladder up against the front of the garage.....'ooh....did he do the gables?....so we just had to go back and check....yep he had, awww...now she looks soooo cool....

Will take a pic of the half downpipe next time i'm out at the house...went to find a pic to show you and found that i hadn't taken one...sorry, very slack of me i know.

the new vision of loveliness...lol

Closer view of the filled gables

Alfresco french doors minus their deadlock

Bedroom french doors...notice the difference in colour between the deadlock and the door handle

Shiney door handles....

We had spoken to our SS yesterday to arrange a walkthrough, he informed us that we would be having our 'fix' walkthrough very soon as soon as the carpenter had finished in our house which should be either today (monday) or tomorrow.

Since Tony had today off we thought we would venture up to the house to see if the carpenter had finished.

Alas, no he hadn't but he was busy installing our door handles on the outer doors.

The eaves had been finished as well.

Eaves over the garage...only thing wrong with this is the fact that two of the tiles above the garage lintel have been removed and thus far not replaced...hope it doesn't rain

Eaves on the Verander...if you look carefully you can see the new handle on the door :)

Alfresco french door with its new handle

Laundry door....the laundry, front and garage doors all have the same type of handle on them...while the french doors both have lever handles

Close up of the front door

Pic taken 9-6-10 as we couldn't get a decent shot yesterday

Close up of the french doors in the Master bedroom...only thing we are not happy with is the fact that the colour of the lever handle and the colour of the deadbolt don't match....will see about that.

Odds n Ends....

SATURDAY, JUNE 5TH

Popped out today to see what was happening as Adrian had gone out on his way home from work (yes, yes we know its along way out of  his way) and had rung us to say that the carpenter was there along with who he thought was the brickie. 

At the time we were in Werribee with Kell picking up her new car....she had to come home straight away as she had a hot date that night...hehe, so we decided to continue on upto Wallan to check out the house.

Adee thought that the mouldings had been painted but as he hadn't actually seen them he wasnt to know that that was the colour they came in.

What did we find....lets see.....

We found this...

Kelly's bathtub in our ensuite

we also found these....

The decorative parts of the columns flanking the lounge room

Laundry door with its blind up

front door

A shot of the kitchen...

Eaves...

The fitting carpenter was at the house today when we got there....we thought that all the tradies would have gone by the time we got out there, but no, not ours.

There was someone working inside of the house that we couldn't see but we assume he was finishing off the skirting boards and doorframes in the front of the house.  While the other guy was cutting lengths of skirting boards....i think.
What they had done was to start putting the eaves up at the front of the house...my oh my...she looks so sexy with her eaves on.

Sitting in the middle of our ensuite was the bath for the bathroom....not that you can see much as it is covered in cardboard.

Our sexy eaves

and again

excuse the crappy pic but its taken through the small ensuite window at a difficult angle

the bathroom bath sitting in our ensuite

Oh Wow....

On the spur of the moment we went to visit the house.

Oh WOW!!  she now has her scarf on........we totally didn't expect to get the moulding on the render so soon, we thought it would go on closer to handover, once everything had been done.

Not only did she have her scarf on, she also has her proper front door on as well as the proper laundry door.

We had a quick peek through the windows and saw that the rumpus room finally has its door on.  From what we could see it looks like the top end of the house has the skirting boards on.  The garage also has its architrave on as well as the base board on the house side.
Today we also contacted a moving company that we had previously used to get a quote to move all our household items from storage in Strathmore and to collect what we have here at Adrian's and move it all up to Wallan.....the quote came in like we thought it would...after all we will be having 2 trucks and 4 men.....will we accept the quote....Yes, as they do a very very good job of handling your bit and pieces and are very professional.

Our beautiful, as yet unstained front door

Laundry door

front view, complete with render and moulding

Close up of the render at the front porch

Garage door complete with door frame and base board

Hmmm, progress

We told ourselves that we were not going out to the house until Wednesday...but, if you know us...we didn't make it....had to go out on Tuesday.....yes! I know, we're addicted.

What did we expect to find?.....our remaining doors on, and the architraves going on.

So, what did we find?....windows all have their architraves on, most of the doorways have their architraves, my french doors in the master bedroom have been installed correctly (YaaaaY) but the two doors have still not been installed.

Got a chance to have a good look at the basin in the bathroom, as we found a way in....as all homeowners will....the basin is definately not what was on offer when we did our colours...we actually didn't get a choice for the bathroom, we were just told that it had to be an in the bench basin, this one is much nicer.

We found our fixing guy back at the house across the park, looks like he's alternating between the houses.

Front on shot of the bathroom vanity, what was a suprise for us was the length of the vanaity, usually these are alot smaller, but then Kelly is estatic with it.

bathroom basin....its different.

Ensuite basin, we have 2 of these, and these ones we did pick

the new french doors in the master bedroom, so now they will open in the correct direction

bi-folds with the architraves on

loungeroom with the architraves on both the windows and the french doors

lounge frenchdoors with their architraves