No More Changes.

The final plans have been done with all the changes incorporated ie new kitchen, electrical etc. We signed two / three weeks ago now we wait for the bank, this should get finalised this week and off we go. Another milestone, another journey. Not sure when the start date is, I think we missed the last one. Hoping we start construction early Oct.

Bathroom Selection

Almost everything is finalised now just waiting on the electrical, I thought I'd post our bathroom selection so bored of waiting to finalise all the PVC's...

We've chosen the Fowler Seido inset basins with 20mm CaesarStone vanity bench tops in 'Ice Snow' and the vanity cupboards in Laminex 'White' with flint finish...thought about doing a dark colour like above but since we weren't upgrading to poly I didn't think it would look as great.

Have upgraded the shower screens to frameless ones
Have upgraded the tiles to 1.2m height to all bathrooms
Also picked large tiles for the bathroom 600*300 so these are getting laid vertically

Have not upgraded the taps & shower heads...will change these later

The powder room will have different tiles to the rest of the bathrooms as it's downstairs and the floor tiles are the same throughout the whole ground floor including the powder room...so the floor tiles will be 'Rex Concreate' in Mud, the wall tiles will just be plain white tiles and the splashback will be the same as the kitchen splashback 'Casa Mood Neutra Silver Lux' hopefully this will work out...my inspiration for the white tiles in the powder room (below)...

House no more

Demolition finished on Friday, the block looks so much bigger now without the house. Looking forward to start the building process.

Still waiting on "estimating"

Boy am I sick of hearing that!!!! we signed the contract almost 4 months ago and we are still no closer to getting things finalised. I am so tired of EB's poor excuse that they are waiting on 'estimating' to provide them with the answers...if they're not giving you an answer then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT... Why do we have to get pissed off before they do anything?? What the hell do the customer service people do???

The last changes we asked for was to get the bottom two stairs painted how can that take 5 weeks to get a quote????

I've had enough and we haven't started building yet...

Paint Selections

I've resolved my colour problems. It seems like the whole house is going to be white...The windows will be pearl white, the external & internal doors will be crisp white & the whole house will be pearl white....the eaves are frosted ice & the bi-fold doors are woodland grey. I've also changed the garage doors to dune instead of paperbark. I'm much happier with these colours than the original beige I chose earlier; and I'm much happier I did it myself.

The vanities will be caesarstone ice snow with white cupboards. The kitchen will also have caesarstone ice snow with crisp white cupboards.

I loved Taubmans new 'White on White' brochure. The Bristol guys at Bella Vista were a great help.

Looking forward to add some colour to the house once I've seen the house & get some furniture...I think it would be better to work out what colours to add once I can see how much light the house gets.

Here is a link which helped me in choosing which 'white' to choose

http://www.smh.com.au/news/house--home/all-the-white-moves/2006/10/17/1160850935910.html

Kitchen Layout Done

Here is the finalised kitchen:

We're putting in our own appliances - All Smeg appliances: the cooktop is designed to be completely flush with the benchline (love it), 90cm underbench oven & rangehood.

• upgraded to 40mm caesarstone 'Ice Snow' benchtops with matching servery top & waterfall edge
• upgraded to polyurethane doors in Crisp White
• upgraded to aluminum kickboards
• included soft close drawers & doors
• upgraded to double undermount sink

• added a microwave tower
• added a lazy suzan
• added a garbage unit/cupboard
• added drawers instead of cupboards
• extended the breakfast bar

• the floors will 'Rex Concreate' in Mud
• the splashback will be 'Casa Mood Mosaico Neutra Silver Lux' with white grouting

It's going to be a white white white kitchen...below is the kitchen display for a Madisson