tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66656951232970276862024-02-01T22:23:32.609-08:00Building Our House of Grey and WhiteNatashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-58396717511112918112013-05-09T16:11:00.000-07:002013-05-09T16:11:22.158-07:00Finally.....We Have KEYS!Well we were supposed to have handover LAST Thursday but instead we had it yesterday, still Thursday just the wrong one. The valuator held us up and didn't come out to valuate our house until Monday which was frustrating plus there were two big scratches on our wooden floors! Needless to say I have sitting around moping eating chocolate and getting fat instead of packing as I took time off work. <br />
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An unofficial handover still went ahead last Thursday even though the final payment wasn't being made, so hubby met our SS and a lady from Metricon at the house for final documents and warranty things to go through. They made Stu wait out the front for 10 minutes to get things ready and upon entering the house my husband was met with two large scratches on the floor where somebody (plumber) had scraped the floor getting our oven in. Husband as you can imagine was not happy at nobody mentioning it to him before he went in, it was kinda like the last straw really and made SS call Andy from Carpet Call immediently to have someone come out to fix it. We also realised later on that the two cabinets either side of oven had marks as well and will be fixed. Way to put a downer on handover. <br />
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So flooring ended up being replaced in that spot, they couldn't touch it up and cabinets will be looked at on Wednesday as kitchen company is coming down with two replacement doors for another area of our kitchen. We still have an ongoing issue regarding our gutters at the front that still have not been rectified and has been a source of great stress for us. This issue was picked up by our inspector at framing stage and was at the time thought to be a minor thing, we told at each stage it would be getting fixed by chippie but it never happened and now what was once a seemingly simple problem is now in our eyes not. SS did have the framers out to readjust the guttering but it is still not right but our SS disagrees and sees nothing wrong with the guttering and we have had to take it further up. After photos were sent and an email it was agreed to have the framers back out but were then told by the framers that there was nothing further that can be done. This was so maddening as we know that there is an issue as visually it doesn't look right, so just fix it! <br />
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SS was not there for the second handover yesterday as he is away as his wife is due to have a baby. Let me say he was not missed by us. Instead we had his boss and my husband told him to get up on the ladder and just have an actual look to see what the issue was and to try and make them see sense that it needs to be rectified. He agreed to have someone else to come out. I'm not sure how much faith I have about this as this will be the second time but we will see. We have already rang HIA and if it is not rectified we will be seeking their assistance. <br />
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So that is where we are at. Whilst we are happy we have keys it has been overshadowed by this gutter issue. I will admit I haven't been out to the house since our first PCI so I have no idea what the end result is, I decided to just leave it to husband and the house building gods. I will say that Metricon have been good about rectifying just about anything else that has popped up as things do when you build and have always abided by everything in our contract, no complaints there. They have told us to call if there are any major issues. Doors and locks were adjusted yesterday by a lovely guy from A&L and garage door was having a service this morning too. <br />
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So moving day is today and I have only packed a quarter of our stuff. I know shock horror. I have been selling of lots of our stuff as I decided I would rather move in with nothing and have empty rooms and start afresh when budget allows. The thought of what work is still to be done like landscaping and lights still to be put up, we don't even have a mailbox or clothesline yet is overwhelming but we will get there. <br />
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So after many arguments between my husband and me (we had a beauty yesterday, you know the type where you bring up things from 10 years ago) we have keys. I'm off now to do some rushed packing as I have a ballet Eisteddfod all day Sunday and also need to drop off a bed to a buyer. Eeep!<br />
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Thanks for following along and I'll still keep posting about our journey post build if that's alright? It should be marginally interesting with no budget. Perhaps a name change too now that the build part is over. <br />
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Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-58597079110090683232013-04-28T05:10:00.001-07:002013-04-28T05:10:37.038-07:00Hand Over Thursday!If all goes to plan we should have the house handed over to us this Thursday. To be honest with husband travelling and me working everyday and the girls after school activities I have no idea whether everything that needs to be done etc bank valuations and final payments will all be lined up and done by then to make this happen but this is the plan. After waiting so long it seems I am completely disorganised and really I think I have just run out of steam towards the finishing line and I am just leaving it to Stu to organise everything. <br />
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Stu went out about 3 weeks ago now and had another walk through with the SS to see if there were still any issues, I didn't go this time but he seemed to think it was all coming together. I haven't been out to the house since the first pci walk through so haven't seen the kitchen handles on or our kitchen pendant lights up only pics. Really I have no idea if everything is up to scratch. I will say that the SS was quite thorough with picking up paint defects some of which we were not really concerned about and then were some other issues that he didn't feel was such a big deal that we wanted fixed. I have to say having an inspector with us was invaluable and he picked up so many things that we were all missing and by the end of the day (we were there all day) I think the SS had had enough of him lol. <br />
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I think I just kinda decided to step back from stressing out about everything that needed doing and to just let be what will be with this house. With my last post I think I was just at that final stage of house building where everything is mostly done but yet at the same time so many little minor things still remain that you feel it's never going to be finished. Stu and I have never really been impatient to get into this house, right from the start we just wanted a quality finish that has always been the most important thing. We could have actually had handover a week ago but due to Stu travelling for work we moved it back to this Thursday. <br />
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The painter had been out there I think for about a week and even worked Saturday and Sunday prepping. We were very happy with M's choice of painter and he was a lovely guy. Our tilers too were fantastic. <br />
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Our fence has gone up. Husband did a great job of organising this for all our neighbours, he chased up names and phones numbers of everyone who had an adjoining fence to us and organised a quote from a fencer who had done the neighbours across from us. He seemed to do a decent job we noticed and his quote came back very reasonable. I think we share fencing with about four other couples so Stu organised to have it quoted for each couples share of fence. It has worked out great except for the young couple up above us who have still not paid and have had their mother corresponding questioning the amount. I think it is around $400 so hopefully it sorts it self out and they pay for their portion.<br />
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Our stove and dishwasher have been put in although last time Stu looked our stove was connected but not sitting in its spot, this is due to our skirting running along underneath it and the kitchen company needs to build a shelf or something to sit underneath it so it is level with our benches. Range hood of course will go in after handover, this is another detail I have left to my husband and I have no idea if it will slot in and line up with our already laid tiles. <br />
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So that is kinda where we are at, husband should have wrote this update as he is the one who has been out there and knows what is going on. I do know the house is having another clean the day before handover too. There is still so much to do and I have so much furniture that I want to sell off so that I don't have to move it out into the new house, I would rather move in with no furniture then a lot of stuff junking up the place that I just don't want. I need to purchase quite a few things too but I am too indecisive and also I don't have the budget right now. Concrete people is soooo expensive and I could go on an extravagant overseas trip with what we are going to have to shell out, heart stopping numbers. I just think of all the furniture I could buy or concrete, not fair. Not to worry we will eventually get there. <br />
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How about a quick iphone pic husband took of our kitchen pendants. <br />
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Should also say that our kitchen guy that we have been dealing with rang my husband to tell him he had finally seen some pics of our kitchen and he loves it, in fact apparently everyone there loves it and I think they are pretty proud of themselves with this being the first time they have done this style of kitchen. <br />
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Also I just wrote this big long post and forgot to say that the SS also rang to say that some head guy or quality checking type person came to look at the house and gave it 100% score which is apparently the first house in Toowoomba to get that score. Makes me feel good but I am also a tad cynical (I can't help it it's in my nature) and think he tells that to everyone but still it was nice to hear...I think he must have just liked to finally see a M house that looked a bit different.<br />
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<br />Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-64384208214482201872013-03-27T16:01:00.000-07:002013-03-28T15:21:11.930-07:00It is slowly turning into a nightmareJust what the title says. Why did we not just go with a local private builder? Why? Why? We had a walkthrough with ss which is a pre pci walk through to pick up any issues and problems and there are many. It took all day and ss did not have time to do the outside walk through with us so that remains undone and has just informed us that he does not have time right now to finish it off. That's basically how we have been treated by this company from the start. We are over our contract time even including the extensions that they asked for but ss is now claiming other extensions to our time that we would have thought we should have been notified of in writing not just over the phone in response to us asking the question. So who knows when we will be finished at this point, probably still at least another two months away and with no compensation for it. We have watched house after house go up around us and finish and it is really becoming heartbreaking. We are talking of selling and just losing the money on this house. <br />
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I wish I could say it was going to have a happy ending building with M but I can't see it turning around. <br />
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TashNatashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-6547974925942081052013-03-23T16:33:00.002-07:002013-03-23T16:33:40.393-07:00Range Hood DecisionThis range hood business has caused a tad bit of stress. I think once the kitchen was installed I really thought that the triangle shaped range hood I had picked out just didn't seem like the best idea. Since the kitchen company had done such a great job on our island gables I got greedy and had the idea that they could also perhaps do us a built in range hood. <br />
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The issue has been though that our overhead cupboards have a bigger gap then our 90cm oven and we weren't sure how we would go about slotting something in there. Between the kitchen company and us we came up with around few ideas. One was to add two little skinny cabinets at either end of the overheads to fill the gap and then that would leave us with a perfect sized 90cm range hood or alternatively we could put them either side of the range hood....hoping I'm making sense here. Another option was to just take all the overheads down and start again, this seemed like too much work and too much money. In the end we have just decided to make the range hood fill the whole space which means that the range hood will be quite larger than the space down below for our oven. We have drawings and it looks pretty good, just hope in the flesh it doesn't look too silly being a lot larger. We based in on Mel's from Georgica Pond as it is simple and achievable for our space and budget but I also checked out White Verandah's hood and the way that one was done was really interesting. <br />
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This of course will have to be done after handover as ss would not even let the kitchen company install the carcass of it so that the tiler could tile exactly right up to it. It now means that the kitchen people will have to come back install our new range hood and then we will also need an electrician to hook it up and I'm thinking a tiler to finish off the tiling. Gee I hope I made the right decision. I did look around for another range and quite liked the squarish one from Ilve but it was around another $1000 which was dearer than the getting the custom one through the kitchen company so husband wouldn't hear of me trying to back out to purchase it. <br />
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I have been really torn about whether to keep the range or to do a built in one. If I was able to get a beautiful one like the ranges below I definetly would have done a big beautiful stainless steel one but the options in Australia are so plain. Fingers crossed it looks okay. <br />
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There are so many different types of ranges that just don't seem to be available in Australia, so many shapes sizes and colours. <br />
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House update - We have our first walk through on Monday to dot any imperfections. We will also have an inspector there to help us out. We went out on Saturday and the house already has een covered in dots, seems they have been more thorough then I would have been. I didn't go in but as husband described it there are dots all over the place. He also was not happy to note that the chippies who came back to put our skirting on now our wooden floors are in seemed to botch the job and had to pull it and reattach in spots, leaving patched up bits on the walls. These skirting boards throughout the house are the one thing I am not happy about. <br />
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Penny rounds have finally gone up in the powder room as well as our shower screens, mirrors and sliding doors. On sliding doors, they are glass and I know I will hate them...don't know why I didn't change them to panelled sliding doors to suit the house but it is on the list when budget hopefully allows to be changed. <br />
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TashNatashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-79380430112936753922013-03-19T06:03:00.000-07:002013-03-19T06:08:23.142-07:00Long Overdue UpdateI know I haven't posted anything for weeks but I just haven't really had the energy. This building business just sucks the life out of you at times. We have had lots happen but at times it still feels like so many little things still to go. <br />
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With so many weeks and weeks of rain here it was turning into a giant mud pit out at site, inside and out and I avoided going out there as the mud all through the house was just too much for me to look at. Sometimes I just prefer not to see the "in between" bits of the build, I prefer to just turn up and "taa daa" it's all nicely done. <br />
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I had to go back and see that the last thing I posted was our range hood dilemma, after this post I will update you all on what is happening there. <br />
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So last update on house was that the kitchen had gone in and all our vanities. We have since had all our taps and basins put in and our caesarstone has gone in...and some of it out haha. The back bench in the kitchen was the wrong thickness and a last minute change to our bathroom vanity must have meant somebody didn't get the memo and they cut the hole for basin in the wrong spot so that went and came too. Shower heads are in too and look very schmick.<br />
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Stone cladding was done to the bottom of our pillars at the front, this was delayed by us as we wanted to wait till hubby got home from trip so that we could discuss it. Tiler was able to send us to another house that I had coincidentally had been looking at as it had a similar stone cladding to what I was hoping for. The did a great job with it and I am very happy with how it looks, blends it nicely with our house but just adds a little bit of texture to the outside. <br />
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Our cupboards in bathrooms have been changed over to panelled doors and ends to match kitchen and I have only seen pics of these off husband's phone but gosh they look so pretty, worth the extra cost. <br />
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Somebody must have been listening to my wishes regarding our carpet choice as I had been hoping that somehow we would have to re pick our carpet and that is exactly what happened. I ended up hating our original pick, don't know what I was thinking. This ended with us spending two days in the carpet store agonising over what to choose. Carpet is so hard to choose as it changes colour depending on the light. Alot of our choices were discontinued (don't know why they had them out in the showroom) and it eventually came down to one choice really. It ended up being an upgrade to the Platinum range at no extra cost, finally a win for us! Just so thankful I got to change, I really dodged that mistake as my original choice was horrible. <br />
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The wooden flooring has been laid and I at first thought it was too dark but now I have adjusted and I am happy with it. We thought we were going to need an expansion gap, something I have only just heard of but thankfully that didn't happen. <br />
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We are not happy with some of the gaps under our skirting boards and that will be brought up, not sure how that can be fixed without creating more issues?? Not everything goes smoothly does it in building? But it looks pretty ordinary. <br />
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Downlights were all put in but not any of our lights as we just are still unsure what is going where so we thought what the hell we'll wait and maybe have to get it done down the track. <br />
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After that long post how about the most important thing....Pics!<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Antiqua mixer from Restorations Online. Great service we received this the day after we ordered it.</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Cheapie mixer from Bunnings as I didn't fancy the square modern one they were providing us with. You will notice that this is not the round sink I posted in my kitchen selections, somewhere in our contract it was changed to this. Lucky I am happy with it as there was no changing it. Our kitchen sink was also wrong as we ended up with a 11/2 sink set up instead of the full two sinks. We decided to keep it and take the credit for it, I wanted to say something to the ss about how flexible we were as he has been very inflexible to say the least.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bath that honestly no one will use but it looks pretty</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">En suite, panelled doors are not on in this shot. We deliberately didn't tile to the ceiling as I wanted to see the grey paint against the white tiles.</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Main bathroom</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Same Dorf shower head in both bathrooms</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Kitchen after floors had been laid and caesarstone on. Extremely happy with how the caesarstone colour works with our cabinet colour, no hint of cream just a hint of grey in the bench top.</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Looking into the kitchen as you walk from the front door.</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Subway tiling to pantry before it was grouted, all of this is now completed although I haven't seen it yet. Just can't get over how much I love subway tiling. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Love, love , love the carpet...it came out just the right wheat type natural colouring I wanted. It is 100% wool which didn't matter to us really just wanted the right colour and something that was soft underfoot. It was called Olives</span>. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Stone cladding to front</span></td></tr>
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<br />Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-7315606213096318052013-02-21T04:38:00.000-08:002013-02-21T04:38:40.281-08:00Last minute change of heartAargh why do I do this? I am having second thoughts about deciding to go with a rangehood, I think I should have done an undermount and just went cupboards all the way across. It would have looked simpler and cleaner. I still love ranghoods but just looking at my kitchen today I just now think it's not a huge kitchen and I think it will just look too overwhelming for the space. I like things to be simple and this last minute regret is really throwing me. Other than ripping out the top cabinets again (not likely) it looks like I will just have to go with it now, totally my own fault. Talk about an eleventh hour decision. Worst comes to worst I will see if we can just leave of the ranghood and install later after I have decided. <br />
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Stay tuned.....Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-25567691584640191142013-02-20T01:39:00.000-08:002013-02-20T02:56:04.095-08:00Finally Kitchen Arrives Well as the title suggests our kitchen finally turned up. We got a heads up that it was turning up last Thursday and sure enough when we went out late Thursday afternoon there she was sitting in bits and pieces all over the family room floor. We were able to get in too and check her all out. <br />
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As you all know from my previous post this is when we discovered the profile of the doors wasn't quite right. We have decided to keep them now that I have seen it all up as to me it is such a tiny little variation and the doors in the bathrooms will be changed over to panelled to match the kitchen. It seems that this was an M paperwork issue and not the kitchen company as such. So glad we made the last minute decision to have panelled doors in the bathrooms as I think the panelled just looks so pretty. <br />
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Kitchen will be installed in two bits, they will come back and put on the island skirting once our floors are put down. <br />
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The kitchen must have been put together on the Friday but I was unaware as I thought due to the door issue that it would not go up, it wasn't until very late Sunday that I made a last minute decision to duck out there just to check if our water tank had turned up and I also had a mat that I wanted to check the sizing of for the laundry. I was literally standing at the back bifold doors trying to see if they were open not even seeing the kitchen. I got quite a shock when I finally noticed it. Luckily a window was still open and the girls and I were able to get in to look. I'm such a chicken I made my daughter look it all over before I would actually myself look at it haha. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Our new kitchen</span></td></tr>
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The pantry looks much bigger than I realised. The upper bit will just be some open shelves to put pretties on. This is the side with the benchtop and sink. Sorry this pick is blurry. <br />
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I am thrilled with it. The gabled ends and skirting feature on the island are perfect and exactly what we were hoping for. To think that we struggled to convey to M what it was we wanted and it was all up in the air on whether it could be done even right up to the day our block was being levelled. Overall happy with everything I am quite amazed really that we all managed to do this via email and pictures and that the kitchen company had never done this style of kitchen. Island is a great size and not so large that it obstructs the walkway to the front door. <br />
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Relieved!!<br />
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Hope no one minds but I will probably post all these pics again once the caesarstone is on...and probably when the pendants are installed too. Caesarstone is due to be installed on the 25th of this month, woohoo! <br />
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In other amazing news we are booked to have our walk through on the 8th of March! They will then take 2 weeks to do any fixups needed and then they are allowing another 2 weeks for our bank to do their thing. Too exciting and I have so much I need to get ready still. <br />
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<br />Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-23290722826227117592013-02-17T13:28:00.002-08:002013-02-17T13:28:55.467-08:00Juju HatMust have one! Saw it on The Block last night in Phil and Amity's bedroom, never heard of them...where have I been? <br />
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Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-10565817730689859022013-02-16T19:40:00.002-08:002013-02-17T14:17:00.796-08:00I Got One!!What you are thinking? I finally got one of those overpriced ceramic drums except I only had to fork over $40! I was doing a happy dance when I picked them up and totally embarassed my daughters to which the little one asked "what do you do with them?" <br />
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I was tipped off last night whilst browsing a thread that mentioned that the Reject shop had them for sale again and after checking out the catalogue sure enough there they were on the front cover so I madly dashed down to our one and only store here in Toowoomba only to be told that a lady the day before had purchased all the white ones, 6 in total. Gosh I was peeved at that lady, there were some mutterings of "greedy people" under my breath haha. So I tried Gatton which is around half an hour away and they had two white ones left, quick girls trip out to Gatton and they are all mine. <br />
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I know a little obsessed about these but I'm so happy I didn't have to fork out for the expensive Matt Blatt ones. If anyone is looking for one of these, check out Reject right now as I know there were a few of you looking for one too. They only have them in red, black and white...white if your lucky and quick it seems. <br />
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Great day all round as I also picked up a gorgeous rug in a turquoise chevron, herringbone type pattern for her bedroom from Loot. <br />
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<br />Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-957845749406430932013-02-16T05:50:00.003-08:002013-02-17T22:54:44.039-08:00Paint PicsThe house has been painted inside and out now for a couple of weeks but I only finally saw it last week. The interior is still a little too dark for me but I think I just need time to adjust to seeing colour other than light cream on the walls. The exterior is perfect, I'm happy that it doesn't look too dark.<br />
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I think now seeing the front door painted white we will now at some stage paint it a pretty light blue after seeing so many other blue painted doors around on other blogs just to add a splash of colour to the house. Wouldn't a lovely pistachio type light mint green look lovely too? Kinda like the pistachio Kitchenaid mixers. <br />
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The exterior was painted in Dulux Milton Moon and we were actually lucky enough to know of another house painted in this colour so we were hoping it would work for us too. I actually now would have also used Silkwort and maybe one day when we repaint that colour will still be around to use. All the trims on the outside are in Dulux Lexicon, M would not allow us to use any other shade of white not even quarter Lexicon. <br />
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The interior is Dulux Tranquil Retreat for most of the walls and in the kitchen, family and dining room we opted for Spanish Olive. I first saw this colour via I think the House of Turquoise blog which featured the most gorgeous house ever which as it turned out led me to the Georgica Pond blog where the same colour is used. I quite like it but I just wish that with the tranquil retreat I had gone only 50% strength. Painting is in our future! The trims inside are all Dulux Vivid White which is a beautiful crisp stark white with no hint of any other colour. The ceiling and cornices were M's standard, Lexicon Quarter. <br />
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For anyone looking at the colour samples I have provided below or even pics of my house please get sample pots and then view them in all different types of lighting as the colours on my computer screen do not really match up to what they look like in real life, I don't even think the white looks accurate on my computer. <br />
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So there she is all painted up and I think she looks a little Hamptonish (new word), not the main house in the Hamptons more like the pool or guest house out the back out of view, haha.<br />
To be honest I think everyone in Australia just uses the word Hamptons to describe any painted weatherboard house but I'm happy to use it no matter how far off I am.<br />
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I want to do a post showing a pic of our house side by side against M's promotional pics, I think they look like two different houses. <br />
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<br />Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-27823903598178118952013-02-15T14:54:00.000-08:002013-02-17T22:56:01.926-08:00Kitchen SelectionsOk so this is long overdue considering my kitchen is already here in frightening little pieces on the floor of our family room. <br />
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So I am going for a "shaker" style kitchen I guess although I have no idea what that really means but to me I always think a kitchen with square panelled doors, this is a look way off from what I nearly ended up with and it was a blog post and a few other blogs that changed not only my kitchen but the look of my whole house. <br />
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I originally was going to have a super modern house all rendered with a two tone kitchen, think black or wood veneer on bottom and white overhead doors with possibly a mirrored splashback or a soft grey splashback, no handles. That was until I discovered A-M's blog and her beautiful house, it changed my build all around. I then discovered the two other blogs with the most stunning kitchens, Georgica Pond and White Verandah and I knew that that was what I really wanted my house to look like too and modern went out the window. Ruby and Belle's kitchen is one I have looked in on too for inspiration and if anyone hasn't read these blogs should pop in for a look. <br />
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It has been an extremely difficult process trying to explain this kitchen, it has made me wonder if they had ever had a client do a similar thing? or has it all been modern flat doors? We provided them with numerous photos of every detail we wanted and were assured we would get to speak to the kitchen company once they knew who was doing it, this is not the case and anyone building with M should know this. So the best I could do is provide pictures and hope I end up with something like I want. Very stressful!<br />
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For all doors and drawers in the kitchen, butlers and bathrooms we have gone with Polytech's Ballerat profiled door. They have a lovely range of doors. It will all be 2pac in Dulux Vivid White in a satin finish as I didn't want them looking too glossy. <br />
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This pictured door is exactly what we got delivered and that is where I think the cofusion lies as we requested this door and this is how Polytech shows it on their website but you can opt to have different edge profiles which is what we did. I don't mind the doors with this edge profile but it's when you get to the drawers that the edge profile all joins up that slightly bugs me. <br />
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The kitchen is all pretty straightforward really. We upgraded to have overheads and banks of drawers around the stove area. The island was widened too (not sure if that was a mistake to do yet) The island is just where it got tricky. We kept the part where the dishwasher is etc the same as standard just moved it around a little but the back of the island we added rows of shallow cupboards. The hardest bit to try and explain was the island end bits and the skirting that I wanted down the bottom. They simply didn't understand and it looked like it would not be done and I kept telling myself to just go with the caesarstone waterfall ends. What will be will be though (sigh). I was hoping for a look like this. <br />
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This one has a few extra fancy bits going on that I don't want but it is still a little similar to what I wanted. Can you imagine trying to explain this in an email and not actually meet the kitchen company? Also they told us they have never done a kitchen like this not even so much as the panelled doors, their company does not do kitchens like this. My husband and I just did our best and now it will be what it will be. I'm not expecting it look as good as this but I am just hoping for something a little similar. <br />
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M provide a glass splashback as standard in our range and we went against the grain and deleted it and instead will have subway tiling. I seriously think they thought I was mad not wanting the glass. We have used the same tile here that we used in the bathrooms which I think was 200x100.<br />
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The handles for kitchen and butlers are from Mother of Pearl in polished nickel.<br />
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Kitchen, butlers and bathrooms benchtops are all Caesarstone Organic White. 40mm to kitchen and butlers and standard 20mm to bathrooms. Caesarstone was standard throughout house but the colour and the 40mm were upgrades. <br />
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Standard tap for here is a Dorf Jovian ultra modern square one but we will replace with something like this one. Or even the Ikea Glitteran one. <br />
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The laundry doors and shelves will be in Laminex Polar White and will have standard flat doors. The benchtop will also be Laminex Polar White as we deleted the caesarstone in here.<br />
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The kitchen apparently will be installed in two bits...all the main cabinetry will go in then they will come back after flooring has been laid and install the island edge bits and the skirting. Just would have been so much easier to talk to them. I do have a pic of one of the end panels to show you and the kitchen company has done so well with it but since the issues with the doors I am trying not to get my hopes up that we might pull all of this off. Just please let it look a little like a proper shaker kitchen! Right now it looks like a shocking jumble all over the floor, seriously never seen a kitchen come in little bits like it has. <br />
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<br />Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-10243664843002281322013-02-14T13:49:00.002-08:002013-02-14T13:49:34.786-08:00Kitchen Door Profile IssuesOur kitchen has just turned up and as the title suggests the door profile is not quite right. They have given as a moulded edge where it is meant to just be flat. It is the shaker style kitchen we are going for and I am unsure on whether to just keep them as I don't flat out hate them or have it changed as they need to change all the doors to the bathrooms (they are flat and need panelling too) so what is a few more kitchen doors too? <br />
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Here are two pics of other kitchens - one is Retro Mummies kitchen which has the extra moulding to the edge which is what we have ended up with and the other is a pic of Mel's kitchen which is without it and just has the classice flat edge. <br />
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Look it's a small difference to someone not as finicky as me but it was something I was very careful about making sure I didn't get. I am a perfectionist and most shaker style kitchens don't have this extra edge bit but they do come in numerous different inside panelled bits. I feel bad for the Kitchen company and I am hoping that it's not their mistake and I should say it's the first time they have done doors like this.<br />
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So what do you think? Keep it or ask for it to be changed. The thing is all the other bathroom doors have to be taken off as they are all flat with no panelling which should be panelled so maybe just get it all redone again? I think the only part I really don't like is where this extra panelling all joins up when there are drawers. I'm just not sure as I don't hate. I'm thinking to just let them put the kitchen all up and decided then as they don't realise they have made an error yet as I think they will still put the kitchen up anyway with or without the wrong doors and then they will just change over. <br />
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They have only seemed to have become more and more popular since then but I was not ready to buy one at the time as I didn't even have a slab at that stage but now I am ready to try and get my hands on one. I heard a rumour on Instagram that Masters do or have at some stage sold them? To be honest I haven't even started looking around at my local nurseries but we will be travelling to Brisbane this Monday to pick up some Ebay purchases and I thought whilst I am there I would check out some of the decorating stores I have been hearing so much of and possibly pick up one of these fig leafs if time permitted. I also would like to stop in at Ikea as we need to organise some shelving and look at a possible kitchen tap. <br />
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My mum loved to have plants inside and there was always one or two dotted around the place. I'm not promising I would keep it alive though. Wondering what prices would range around for these too, I know it always depends on size. <br />
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* Update on house build.....we were painted externally nearly two weeks ago and I have still not ventured out there yet to look, husband home Monday and he will probably check it all out Tuesday. Our Kitchen has only just now been sent to be sprayed and will most likely be another 3 weeks away. Agony I tell you, nothing else can be done until this kitchen and vanities are put in. <br />
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Anyone else watching the block? I love the block and unbelievably I missed one whole season of it when it first came back minus Jamie Durie but other than that I have been a die hard fan of the show. Have been looking forward to this so much all through the School holidays that it was a little unbelievable that I missed the first episode as it coincided with my daughters first class back at Ballet. I caught back up though online and will need to get hubby who is away at the moment to set up the t-box so I can tape it.<br />
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This is a pic of my youngest one outside of Katrina and Amie's place. They were our favourites from that year and when we went to Melbourne for a fly in fly out visit to look at display homes we stayed not far away so we made time to have a look. It was just after the show and auctions ended. <br />
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Loving Phil and Amity and they deserved to win with their room although I also liked Dan and Dani's room too. The boy's was not so great and Josh and Jenna's was not really kid friendly, more I think an adults room. <br />
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TashNatashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-55172241799406265482013-02-02T04:31:00.001-08:002013-02-02T04:31:08.913-08:00 Paint & Some SelectionsSo last week we had the interior painted and first thoughts were that it is too dark. I of course went through the process when picking our paint colours of painting them onto pieces of undercoated plaster but it still seemed darker than my samples at home? I think I should have went with 50% strength, I think that would have been nicer. I have only seen it the once when we went to talk to the ss on site about a placement of a light and was a little shocked that it was the same colour as what I have been looking at at home. It is the same though going by the labels on the tins. I have to admit with hubby leaving shortly after for WA with work I haven't had the courage to go back to look. I think there will be some repainting of walls in my future, there always was going to be some painting in the girls rooms but now I may redo a few others. <br />
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The exterior was also finally painted, it was delayed due to all the wild weather we have been having here in Qld. It rained that night after it was done so I am wondering how that will affect the finish? Haven't been out to look as I fear I'm not going to like it either. There is a house that has used the same colour as us and I went out to have a look today just to reassure myself that I still like theirs, so it should stand to reason that ours will be the same?? I'm such a chicken. Still another week til hubby comes home and I'm pretty sure I will just wait for him to look first. <br />
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I promise I will take some pics when husband gets home for good or bad of the exterior and also of the too dark interior. Lucky I like lots of light furnishings which should lighten things up a bit. I need to remember that paint is a relatively cheap and easy thing to change and it's not the huge disaster I think it is. <br />
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Kitchen is still not ready, really there is no point whining or being impatient about this. Ss said it has been delayed again due to a wait on some materials? Whatever the reason it will get here when it gets here. Gives me more time to shop. <br />
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How about some long overdue pics of some bathroom selections, although all of the bathroom fittings were not really "selections" as they are just what comes standard. The bathroom is where the mix of modern and classic style mix together as it was just easier to keep the bathroom fittings that were provided by M as I found some of the classic bathroom fittings that I liked to be quite pricey. So tiles are a mix of modern and classic, the fittings are all modern but then the cabinets lean to being more classic as they will have panelled doors. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I admit we are a household of shower only people and this bath will get no use but <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think this is our exact toilet, they kinda all look the same but I know it comes<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Similar crystal handles, ours were purchased cheaply from recollections.</td></tr>
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Our cabinets are in 2pac Dulux Vivid White and are one of Polytec's panelled doors, this was a last minute change to have panelled in the bathrooms and put us over budget. The benchtops are Organic White Caesarstone in 20mm, this was standard although the colour was an upgrade. We purchased some crystal knobs from Recollections to go on all the doors in the bathrooms. <br />
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TashNatashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-24218056929355179722013-01-19T20:26:00.000-08:002013-01-19T20:26:00.852-08:00Entrance Light Every house needs a pretty entrance light I think. In our last house we just had standard height ceilings which makes it very difficult to have anything hanging so we had a simple oyster light with a pretty pattern on it. I quite liked it at the time but it certainly was going to win no design awards. This time we are lucky enough to have 3m high ceilings and can have something a little more special. <br />
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We have purchased the most gorgeous Capiz or lotus flower pendant and we think at this stage it will go in the entrance. I say we think because it is rather larger in person than what I was expecting. The husband and I argued back and forth over it being too large so when we finally deboxed it to settle the argument we drove it out to the house when it was still at frame stage and mock hung it. I know mad right? but it had to be settled, I couldn't stand the thought I had spent good money on something that wasn't right buuut I think it'll be all good fingers crossed still we should have got the smaller one. <br />
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Last year Stu stayed overnight in Sydney and said he was thinking about seeing if he could maybe pick up one of these lights while he was there and bring it home with him. If you can picture this he picked the light up from the store put it in a trolley and took it on the train to the airport haha. The things he does for me as he knew I was obsessed with having this light. <br />
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So here is a pic I found online, not mine but looks just like ours. <br />
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This is the light being boarded onto the plane, haha he could see them loading it from where he was and I just love this pic. <br />
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Safely home and looks too large for our rental. <br />
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On a side note anybody who likes to stay up late and watch Private Practice might notice that in Addison's beach house she has one hanging over the dining table. Mel from Georgica Pond also had one in her gorgeous previous house, god I love that blog. <br />
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I think it should fit in well with the house and I am one happy lady. I will be very nervous when it finally goes up, do you all think it's too much to insist on a mattress to go underneath whilst it goes up just in case? Yeah I know just a tad obsessive over this light. <br />
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<br />Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-42303960509397601162013-01-19T02:28:00.001-08:002013-01-19T02:28:41.824-08:00TilesTiles were started on Friday but it wasn't til Thursday that I decided to arm myself with choc chip biccies and waltz on site all the while worried a tradie was going to kick me off...that didn't happen and I managed to get a quick look and a few hurried snaps before leaving. <br />
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The painter said he would be there on Thursday but really the renders were there finishing up the rendering under the weatherboard and we had our cornice going in the entrance as the lining is now up as well so really not ready for the painters just yet I would say. <br />
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Tiling looks as I was hoping although I wished we had gone a row or two higher. We did not go to the ceiling deliberately as I wanted there to be some grey paint in there, I know it sounds odd but I just like to see some paint in the bathrooms. I actually got talked into having more tiling on other walls that I didn't want. I think the "gap will look better once painted. <br />
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I love the subway tiling, who can understand how something so simple and relatively cheap can look so pretty. Husband has seen pics but I told him that to truly appreciate them he needed to see them in person. <br />
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Overall happy with my tiles and grout colour choices and just hoping that it doesn't get trashed by the end of it. Wouldn't it be great if tradies took their shoes off before coming inside....haha yeah I know in the land of fairies and other mythical beings right. <br />
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* Was reminded by husband that Kitchen is due to be installed in around a week and halfs time. Will be way to nervous to look, it has been such a difficult task to explain what I wanted so I am expecting things to be not quite what I wanted. Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-13350659562598034472013-01-13T20:36:00.000-08:002013-01-13T20:36:08.170-08:00New Floor Tile Pic I met the tiler on site Thursday morning and it was all pretty straight forward. We discussed which way would be best for the floor tiles to run and what was going where, because we have no vanities our powder room wall will have to be done at the same time as our other splashbacks in kitchen and laundry. We have tiles running in similar directions in powder and main bathroom but different in ensuite and laundry just based on the shape of the rooms. <br />
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We went back out to see the painter on Friday and that too seemed to be straightforward. I have to wonder though how they remember which bits are white and which are grey for the outside. I'm just hoping that the painting is good quality, he mentioned that he and his brother have been doing this for a long time. I am thinking they won't start til next week. <br />
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Some of our weatherboard at the front will need to be taken off as our trim to the two front windows was not put on, this is apparently happening on tomorrow if weather stays good I guess. Chippie was annoyed as he had asked ss was there trim going around the windows as trim had been delivered but chippie was unsure as it was not on any of his drawings and was told no. This needs to be attached before the weatherboard. I was unsure of whether we should just have left the front as is without the trim as it is quite thick and maybe too much for our front and I really am just loving the front the way it is but the husband wants it on and has reminded me that when it is painted grey we will want lots of white bits to balance it out. Still unsure about it though, hope I like it.???<br />
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We had a sneak peak of our tiles on Friday and all the tiles in wet areas have been laid, having not been out to the block today I'm assuming that the walls will be started today. No pics though. <br />
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This is a pic of our new floor tile that will be used instead of the dark grey. It is a porcelain carrara type look tile in 600x300. It was really hard to find this with a grey vein instead of the brown and I think this fits in better with the style of home we want whilst still staying within the confines of a project built house. We have picked a light grey grout to go with it. The dark grey will still stay in the laundry and will have a matching grey grout for it as well. Tiler was lovely and already had picked the same grout colours out. <br />
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Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-73450550156412318962013-01-08T04:32:00.000-08:002013-01-08T04:32:13.823-08:00Chippies = Beautiful Weatherboard Well we didn't reach lock up before Christmas but the Chippies worked right up til the Thursday before Christmas getting the eaves done and building extra frame bits for our weatherboard to attach to. We were really disappointed to not have weatherboard up before Christmas and felt really frustrated at why it wasn't being done but we have since found out there were some payment negotiations going on regarding the weatherboard which delayed it slightly. Imagine how excited we were though to head out to the block last Thursday to see the Chippies back early with the weatherboard at the front already done. Totally made up for the delay. <br />
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We are both really happy with it and glad we went with the bigger size weatherboard as the Scyon comes in two different sizes and I was very uncertain about which size was the "right" one I was after.<br />
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Garage door was put on a while back but I keep forgetting to photograph it. Just went with the standard one in simple Surfmist, nice to have one thing not to have to upgrade to achieve the right look. <br />
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Close up shot of that wonderful weatherboard. Hope I'm still loving it this much when it needs repainting. <br />
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Close up shot of our door handle, one of the more modern bits to our house. This was standard but we just went a little bigger. <br />
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All our doors have been hung and architraves are on but not the skirtings, those will go on after our floor has been laid. I am meeting the tiler on site Thursday morning and the chippies will finish up this Friday. I still need to discuss grout colours due to us changing the floor tile but apparently he has samples for me to look at, I'm thinking a light grey. Hubby also wants a meeting with the painter before he heads off for Africa this Friday. Fingers crossed we have a good one. <br />
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Will try to remember to take my camera and take some sneaky shots whilst I am out there as they have been very thorough with locking up and we haven't been able to get in at all. <br />
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Reminding myself to try not to stress about things and to try and enjoy this moment in our lives after all it's not every day that one gets to experience building a house. <br />
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Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-84521970340240809142012-12-11T16:19:00.001-08:002012-12-11T16:19:49.046-08:00Bricking, Cornices and a Missing Kitchen? Last week saw our bricking being finished off. We only have a small amount of the house to be bricked. Hate how it is looking right now as because it is being rendered they are using some cream bricks with grey mortar and it it looks pretty ordinary. Hard to get past it visually. Also not sure how much I love the parapet over the garage but I guess it's going to have to grow on me, should look better once rendered and painted. <br />
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As I mentioned in another post we have to have a rendered strip running around the perimeter of the house under our weatherboards due to the glass termite barrier (not our choice) but we got them to at least lower the height of this. Now that that row of bricks is done hubby checked measurements and noticed they had done a row too high, a call to the ss and he let us know that he had already noticed and had the brickie booked to head on back to fix it up. Happy he is on the ball but also pretty pleased with my hubby that he picks these things up. <br />
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Our tiles and weatherboard has been delivered and the weatherboard is due to start this week I think. Just looove weatherboard but I am wondering it it will look odd on our gableless (is that even a word?) house, joys of building a project house and not sticking with standard brick or render means you have no idea how good or stupid it will look. <br />
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I have been stressing about my kitchen and have actually not been looking forward to it going in, I know that's weird but not being able to talk to kitchen company and relying on emails and pictures to convey what we want adds to my stress and also no detailed kitchen drawings. So I admit I felt a little relief to hear that our kitchen will be delayed due to a headoffice stuff up. It seems that a variation we made a few weeks ago to the kitchen and bathrooms created a mix up and our kitchen was not ordered. So instead of us getting our kitchen before Christmas shutdown it will now be installed after. I guess at least we won't have the worry of our kitchen sitting there over the Christmas break but this has now delayed other things like tiling, which was also due to be done before Christmas. <br />
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Like I said in another post each new stage brings with it issues big or small and I am glad I realise this now and I am learning to not stress and just roll with it. <br />
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In other news we swapped our 75mm cornice for the Sydney Cove 90mm and we are so glad we did as it looks gorgeous. My hubby is especially taken with it. <br />
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Architraves and doors have started to be done and the Chippie will be busy at our house until Christmas. <br />
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So what does everyone think, blessing in disguise kitchen is delayed til after Christmas break or better to have had it in with less delays regardless of Christmas break? <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Much happier with this Cornice, can't wait to see them painted</td></tr>
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Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-4790795472972207342012-12-02T12:58:00.001-08:002012-12-02T12:58:30.943-08:00Plaster,Fireplace and Cornice IssuesI am late in this post as plastering started on Thursday. We were a little nervous about it as it had stormed the night before and the plaster had been sitting in the open doorway of the garage. Hubby took down some coke and doughnuts and the plasterers let him know that it was dry and it had been under black plastic. <br />
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While he was there he noticed that our fireplace which was due to have gone in on the Tuesday had not been done, a quick ring and our plumber was in fact on holiday and had it booked to be installed the following Tuesday. Gah! It needed to be installed before plaster and with the plasterers working fast we needed it done asap. He managed to find someone to come and install it on the Wednesday and the plasterers left that area down the bottom til the end. I tell you every new stage I am learning will bring it's own issues, surprises or delights. <br />
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We also of course had our insulation put in before the plaster went up but I stupidly assumed that it went into every wall of your house not just external. After reading so many forums and blogs how did I not know this important detail? I didn't necessarily want it in every wall but I would have put some insulation around the powder room and laundry for sound proofing purposes. Oh well live and learn, not much I could do as we completely missed this stage of the house build as hubby was away and I was too buggered at the end of the day to drive out there. <br />
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First row of bricking has started and the termite barrier has been done as well. <br />
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By Friday afternoon plaster was up. We checked Saturday afternoon and somebody had obviously just finished working as there was water out the front and the plaster joins had been painted over with whatever it is they use. Workers on Saturday, woohoo!<br />
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But it wouldn't be a house build without issues right? While there on Saturday my husband wanted to show me the cornices. We paid an over inflated price to upgrade them from standard so we were looking forward to them going up. Hubby pulled a piece out and really until they are painted they are not that impressive yet. We noticed we also had some standard cove cornice and had pulled a piece of that out and that's when we realised something didn't look right. The standard cornice comes in 90mm and our upgraded cornice that we spent a lot of money on was only 75mm. We have high ceilings so we are unsure what this will look like. Looking at Gyprocks website however shows that this particular cornice only comes in this size, we just happened to pick the one that doesn't come in the larger size. Aaargh! Another live and learn moment. <br />
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I am also at the moment having a panic about our island bench being too large for the space. We (hubby) widened it and to my eye it is now too wide and will look like a giant whale of a thing you have to walk around especially if somebody is sitting there on a stool, he disagrees. I really hope it's not as bad as I am imagining. I am a panicker and worrier about everything, my poor husband. <br />
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So that's what has been happening, will do another post on things that I think are better than expected and things that are not now that plaster is up. <br />
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TashNatashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-86016015776800946212012-11-28T04:17:00.000-08:002012-11-28T04:17:48.611-08:00Ceramic StoolsCeramic stools, anyone else have trouble finding these under a $100? I have seen some recently on Ebay starting at $50 which for me is the cheapest I have seen them but they are located in Melbourne. <br />
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Anyone know of any in the Brisbane or even Gold Coast area selling for a decent price? I have looked on and off but not too seriously. I have even thought what a great idea to import them as they cost literally nothing but where would I store a thousand or so stools? Haha. Really I need to be saved before I become desperate and spend a stupid amount of money on one. <br />
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We are heading back to Brisbane this weekend to pick up an ebay purchase and would love to bring one of these back. <br />
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Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-69482208066126653702012-11-27T03:57:00.001-08:002012-11-27T03:57:14.840-08:00Kitchen Island PendantsAfter looking and looking for lighting to go above our island bench I decided to go back to one of my original choices. If I were in America I would have had just as much trouble because I wouldn't have been able to narrow it down to just one choice. But I live in a little regional city that while has a lot of the major stores it is really lacking in the homeware area...and it's pricey too. We live near Brisbane but I don't go over enough to know where the best little homeware stores are and often when we head over it is usually a mad dash to do what we need to do and it leaves little time to do the type of shopping I want to. <br />
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Some of my favourites. <br />
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I checked back over my favourite pics and one type of light kept popping up. It has been done in so many kitchens on Houzz but I think they give just the right type of look for my kitchen and they were the right price (on sale) so that won me over as well. Bit scary buying stuff that you have only seen over the internet in pictures but we think the size should be okay. <br />
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We bought three of the Schots Parisian Pendant lights in the brushed nickel but I think the Chrome would have been nice too. <br />
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I am so excited about them and can't wait to see them put up. For an ordinary everyday suburban mum it is surreal to think I get a little slice of America in my project house to make it a little bit special. <br />
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My lovely hard working husband organised to have these sent from Melbourne through a courier through his work. This is the second time he has organised special lighting for the house, the other one I will do another post on as it is my most favourite thing of all for this new house, although there has been some dramas about the size of it. <br />
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Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-44008687007018241592012-11-20T20:24:00.003-08:002012-11-20T20:24:48.444-08:00Windows Doors and SolarWe have had our front door and windows installed and it really looks like a pretty cottage from the front now. Our sitting and rumpus room windows have not been fitted in yet due to the adjustment to frame not being correct. I am loving the front windows they are my favourite thing. <br />
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The two whirly birds and the solar panels and solar hot water have all been installed. I kinda thought that the whirly birds looked really daggy up there on the roof but I don't notice them now, yes I know they're not there too look good. <br />
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The front door fits in really well with the look that I was going for while still being a modern pivot door. I couldn't find a pic of this door anywhere on the internet and it didn't cost anything extra to switch to this style from the standard style door. I would love to paint it a blueish colour like Melinda from Georgica Pond but piked out at our colour selection appointment. <br />
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On the weekend we went out and swept and tidied up the site and my husband noticed that a pipe out the front was leaking, on closer inspection it had been broken and taped back up. We let the ss know and the plumber fixed it up. <br />
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We are having a private inspector out today to have a look but I am leaving that stuff to hubby to worry about. He had a panicked moment thinking that they had put the solar right where the flue for the gas heater is to come out but it is all fine. <br />
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Also have changed my floor tile in the wet areas, not the laundry though. I just wasn't feeling the love for the dark grey and if you'll remember it was not my first choice. So after searching around Brisbane we found a tile I am happier with and a size that can go in the shower. It now fits in closer to my inspiration pics and is totally impractical, haha. The dark grey will stay in the laundry.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our front door - will be painted not stained - 1200 wide</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">French door in main bedroom</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bifolds looking out to outdoor room off the dining area</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bifolds off family room - will deck or concrete this area</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking out one of the pretty front bedroom windows</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Standing in entrance looking back to front door</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Solar and hot water panels and two whirly birds</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking up at the 25 degree pitch roof</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gas fireplace spot in family room</td></tr>
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Natashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207338997338102020noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665695123297027686.post-31732229181334305452012-11-17T03:07:00.001-08:002012-11-17T03:07:48.117-08:00Graduation Day and Formal My 18 year old daughter has finally graduated from highschool. Our day started with dropping her off for breakfast at 7.30 at the school then a mad dash to buy shoes and a shirt for my husband (we like to leave things to the last minute) then back to school for last roll call where she recieved a vase with all of the graduating girls names on it. <br />
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It was a long day but it is something nice to look back on for her. I am relieved it is over and I now only have the house to worry about organising for a bit. <br />
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Here are some home grown non professional shots. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Us - My heels killed all night!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Off to schoolies to today, I have been telling her she needed to go all year but <br />
she didn't want to then she changed her mind at the eleventh hour. </td></tr>
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