Today was a very busy house day....we got all of our ducks lined up and managed to organise almost all of the rest of our selections in one day.
Stop 1: Lighting
First up, we went to the lighting shop. We have already purchased most of our pendant lights, but we were yet to find the right lights for the theatre room. We stopped in at Light Up Australia on the way to the Keogh office and Ben managed to find his perfect wall lights for the theatre room. They were out of stock so we placed an order and they should be here by next week.
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| Retro wall lights to go either side of the screen |
Stop 2: Electrical
Next stop, into the Keogh offices for the electrical appointment. Despite Keogh's generous light point and power point allowances, we have still added in an extra 21 light points (mostly through adding downlights to the hallway, study and theatre room). We have also added in 8 extra power points, and an IXL in each of the bathrooms.
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| Electrical plan draft (not including switching) |
Stop 3: Cabinetry
Next up, cabinetry. We met with Jack from Divine Cabinets to go through the cabinetry configuration for the kitchen, bathrooms, and laundry.
As we have mentioned in earlier posts, we especially liked the kitchen design from our original house plans, so we have decided to keep as close to this design as possible:
Instead of the pot drawers either side of the stove, we are going to make them cupboards instead. We will also have an overhead cabinet on the left hand side of the stove. Our island bench will have one set of cupboards in the centre, and bank of pot drawers/cutlery drawers either side.
We have chosen this 'shiplap' style for the vinyl wrap cupboard doors, and provincial twist handles:
At this stage, we have gone with Antique White for the cupboards, Kalahari Topaz for the kitchen benches, and Nullabor Stone for the benches in the bathrooms and laundry.
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| Antique white - cupboards |
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| Kalahari Topaz - Kitchen bench tops |
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| Nullabor Stone - bathrooms and laundry |
Stop 4: Tiles
No rest for the wicked - next stop for our day...tiles! Now, we had already gone through and picked most of our tile selections back in November, but in light of our new cabinetry and benchtop colours, we just wanted to revisit and make sure everything still matched okay.
We decided to change the floor tiles in the bathrooms and laundry to Millennium Grey Pearl instead of the Millennium Black, and we needed to change the feature stripe in the bathroom as our original pick is now discontinued. But not to fear, we have picked an even better feature tile instead! Sample has been ordered and is expected in next week. We also have some sample tiles for our kitchen splash-back coming in from Sydney. In the meantime, here is a recap of our selections so far:
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| Top - feature wall in en suite; bottom left - walls; bottom right - floor |
Stop 5: House
Finally, we managed to drop by the house this afternoon. The builders have been very busy indeed - we now have a roof, windows, and half of our blue sisalation. You should have seen my smile when we drove up the street and first got a glimpse of the house :D
Weatherboards have arrived on site, so they should be starting any day now - then it really will start to look like a house!
Now here are lots of pictures:
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| Family room windows |
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| Sliding door out onto deck (door still to be installed) |
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Standing in the theatre room, looking down the hallway
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| Kitchen window still to be installed |
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| Front window in Bedroom 2 |
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| View of future deck |
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| Master bedroom bay window |
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| Big pack of weatherboards ready to go |
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| Cricket anyone? |
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| Clear glass highlight over the front door - this is going to highlight the chandelier beautifully from outside |
