Tiling complete

As the house is well and truly locked up, it gets harder to get inside and take photos and not much has occurred outside. A change to outside was the tank stand has been put in and the tank should be arriving in the next couple of days. Now we just need some rain to fill it.

The bathroom and ensuite has been finished except for the shower screens and mirrors. This is the kids bathroom. Vanity and bath installed, tiled and almost ready for use. There is a power point missing but when these photos were taken, the electrician was in the house finishing off all the electical points and switches.

The bath and tiles in the ensuite. The IXL tastic has also been installed.

The vanity in the ensuite with tiles outlining where the mirror will ultimately be.

We were able to leverage off the tiler that NDH uses to lay our own tiles for downstairs. It saved the time of having a tiler come in and do the wet areas and then once hand over occurs, getting the same or another tiler to lay the tiles for our flooring. The tiles did look really good when they were first laid but now with workmen walking on them, they look a bit dirty.

The living and meals areas have also been tiled so other than two rooms to be carpeted, downstairs flooring is virtually complete.

The powder room downstairs has been nicely finished off. Not long now before we will be moving in.

The Kitchen

We got our first look at new kitchen. Angela was dancing around in it saying how big it was, how much room there is, and how much easier cooking will be.

No this is not the new kitchen but what we currently have. A nice blend of 70's architecture with tiled bench tops and mock wooden laminate doors in shades of brown.

The new kitchen from the meals area showing the new bench. This new bench has a dark laminate top and is wide enough that people could prepare food from both sides. Sorry about the blurry photo but I'm sure we will get another clearer one soon.

Inside the kitchen, the gap is where the stove will go. There are pot drawers to the side of the stove.

Cupboards and a microwave spot are below the main bench. We lifted a bit of the cardboard protection to show the colour of the bench top.

In the butlers pantry there are benches and shelves on each side wall with spaces to store appliances. The back wall will contain shelves where we can store food.

Bits and Pieces

A lot of different things have been done to the house.

Some doors have been hung. These are the double doors to the main bedroom. We went with plain doors initially to keep the price down. Probably in the future we will put some feature doors there.

A sliding door has been added to the walk-in pantry.

Skirting boards and architraves have been installed in the main areas. The pile of skirting boards has been substantially reduced.

The main corridor looks a lot cleaner now that the door frames, cornices and skirting boards have been put in.

The ground floor eaves have been painted as well as the alfresco. Everything is steadily moving on.