Friday 31 August 2012

The roof the roof

Gotta love a roof!
We went for another look today - Blair's finished footy and cricket hasn't started yet :)
Progress: Roof trusses, roof tiles, windows, alfresco post, fascia and guttering

You can see the bricks around - apparently the brickie is due Monday!
See construction tab for more photos...


Tuesday 28 August 2012

Argh PAINT!

Choosing paint is hard!

So we went off to Mitre 10 to look and choose paint chips today. It is not the first time I've looked but gee it was hard! Everything looks cream to me! We finally found a slightly stone grey looking paint called Strauss White and Magnesium which looks a bit creamy to me but Blair liked it so I said ok!
My scanner did a terrible job but you get the general idea of our colour scheme.
We also picked the splashback colour - again Blair's choice! He never ceases to amaze me how he chimes in just at the right time with some input :)


Monday 27 August 2012

Kitchen tiles carpets

Decisions Decisions Decisions.......
Since everything has been zooming along with our slab and frame we needed to get going on our colour choices and selections.

We headed to the kitchen place first and John the kitchen man expertly tweaked our plans and made recommendations. He did a great job and helped us with our colour choices too.

 Below is a sketch of what the kitchen will look like on one wall.. It took a lot of tweaking to make this happen!

Next we headed to the tiling shop to pick floor, walls and feature tiles. We decided to stick to the given budget and save money for the kitchen extras.


Last we were off to the carpet shop. We picked a twist pile called soot (dark grey)
Elegance

Last of all we need to pick our splashback and paint colours.. Then we can relax and head off on our holiday!

Sunday 26 August 2012

All framed up!

26th August, 2012

Visited our block today to see our frame up! 
It's all happening so quickly now-  its very exciting!





Thursday 16 August 2012

Slab me

Slab me!

Yay our slab is down! We are very excited! Any guesses for when we'll see a frame?


Tuesday 14 August 2012

Buy a house get a pool free

So our land is getting started and since Melbourne has such lovely weather we got our garage dug out in site scrape and it looks like a pool!

Monday 13 August 2012

Videos to compare progress

Oct 2011


Nov 2011

Dec 2011



Australia Day 2012



August 2012

(see Construction)