Small bits and pieces...

We are waiting for the tiling to start, but in the meantime some bit and pieces have been happening. Yesterday the bathtub, toilets, spa and door handles were delivered. We also realised that the shelves in the pantry were already installed.. no sure when though. Today we found that the Garage door was installed, it was really quick. We were discussing why we didn't have the Wisdom Ad in our house and today it was finally place in the fence... haha it is funny as we are really close to completion.. (well at least it seems like it). Enjoy the photos.

Façade is almost finished

Sorry for the car photobombing.. but I liked this picture, the sky was just so full of colours... The façade is almost finished and now we can see the colours in real life. We think now that the combination was a little bit risky, but I think the final product is looking good, now we need to think about the colour of the fence, so it matches the same palette. Our garage door will be surfmist, close to the colour of the fence with our neighbours and to the first floor cladding. The balcony is missing the rail bars yet and also a privacy screen in the right side, which was required by CDC. 

For the fence we are thinking in using modular walls system but we are still trying to decide if we should go all around the corner until the driveway (1.8m decreasing to 1.2m high in the corner and front) or whether we should just put some retaining walls with some shrubs (like a raised garden bed) for the delimiting the land.

We have been growing some Lilly Pilly Acmena var minor (28 of them) in the balcony of the place we are living now, and we have also some English Box (around 60). 

Our idea is to use the English boxes to create a path towards the door and put the Lilly Pillies behind the modular wall (in case we decide to go all round the corner), or put them in top of the raised bed garden (if we decide to go for that).. decisions... decisions... :-)  

Getting closer.. slow but closer

Some photos of the progress done during the last weeks. The house is taking shape and  finally we feel close to the end. Last week I've received a call from the Site Supervisor saying that he was leaving WH and that he will hand over to another person. We will have a meeting with him tomorrow morning, we hope we can get an approx. date of completion. Our previous supervisor told us some months ago that the house will be finished on February, however we see that very unlikely. We hope we still on time to finish in March, we'll update you as soon as we know. The house is looking beautiful, we are really happy with the options we took, with exception of small details such the mirror in the ensuite.. when we realised that having only one mirror was an upgrade, it was already late to do any change. Anyways, enjoy the photos :-)

Tiling has started

First thing.. We hope you have enjoyed a nice time over the end of the year break and with your families and friends during Christmas.

We were lucky to finally do a lifetime-delayed travel to Europe, it was really nice time [and freaking cold too :-) ], it was almost a month so we came back with a lot of expectations about what would be the construction progress... Well it wasn't bad at all... tiles have been installed through all the wet areas (main bathroom, en-suite, powder room, laundry and porch). There were also some work done to open cavities in the gyprock for electrical and a/c installations. Additionally, the ground floor bricks have been cleaned up and the balcony cladding is finished.  Here some pics:

Ensuite shower

Ensuite cabinets

Ensuite cavity for SPA

Balcony Cladding

Main Bathroom

Ground floor from living room

Laundry

Powder Room

Cleaned bricks

Stairs and cabinetry

Last week our SS told us that the stairs will be installed on Wednesday, so today we went to the house to check out the stairs, however we found a surprise... the people from Knebel Kitchens have been there, in fact they were working when we arrived.. so we went to walk around the neighbourhood. They left a little bit late, so we didn't have much time to actually see things with sun light. Here are some pictures:

Cabinets in main bathroom

Stairs

Cabinets in en-suite 

Main door

Cabinets in powder room

Kitchen as seen from Living Room

Upper and lower cabinets

Main door

If you are interested, there is one last chance to buy a piece of land in Heartwood - Voyager Point :-)

Tiles out of stock... but we can't complain :-)

Last week we received an email from DiLorenzo saying that we will need to chose a different tile for the wall of the ensuite. Obviously we weren't happy with that, as It took us a long time to make the decision the first time and then another bit to convince the kitchen provider to use different colour of Caesar Stone.
Anyway we went there today and we weren't convinced by the other available options. We couldn't find some of the others tiles we picked the first time for the other bathrooms, apparently they  have been removed from the prestige package as they are more expensive now. The girl that was helping us proposed us to have a look into a lower category, we almost decided to pick one of those, but them we asked to another person in the reception and (apparently she is kind of a manager) she told us that, as it was their fault we can choose one from the upgrade options :-) yay!!!.. we saw this other tile from the beginning, but were reticent to spend more money.. at the end we got the upgrade for free and we also changed the floor tile too to match this new wall tile. The only thing we didn't change was the featured tile, as we like the one we choose months ago.  So this is the new tiles for wall and floor of the ensuite.

Internal linings

Some people say that an image is worth thousand words... I wonder how many words are these videos :-)