Some more kitchen

As the title suggests, some more photos of the kitchen. Today the island has been completed and it looks more complete than yesterday. Now we can just wait for some benchtops and handles.

A close up of our Laminex Morning Shale vanity in the ensuite. It has a lovely swirled and textured feel.

The main bathrooms Laminex Zincworks was a late call up after our initial selection was thankfully discontinued, thankfully because this forced us to make a decision and we now love the zinc colouring. The handles are mighty cool too (if I say so myself).

We have a kitchen

It was a busy Monday morning in the house as our cabinet makers were hard at work, the kitchen is looking great and the bathroom cabinets are in as well. Our laminate feature wall (as seen below) is something we have been waiting so long to see and to finally do so is excellent. We had some serious moments when we were quite unsure as to whether our cabinet makers would translate our concept into reality, now that they have it is nice to see it all come together as we had wanted.

Our pantry door is to the right of the oven cavity (on the dark licorice linea laminate wall). You can't really see it and that's the idea, the giant pantry loops back behind the laminate wall from the door back to the left side of the wall.

Benchtop with the fridge cavity to the right, this photo is taken from where the island bench will be by now. At the time of the photo it was still waiting to be put in place. The stone benchtops for both the bench and the island should be installed in the next few days.

Here is our ensuite vanity and basin. The bath and frame still have to be installed on the left hand side of the vanity

Tomorrow I will update with some more cabinet photos of our first almost finished parts of the house.

Lock it up

The house was officially locked up today. Our lovely green front and side doors are there for all to see (don't worry they won't stay that colour). You can also see the base render on the portico and the study, quite obviously this has not been painted yet and it will look much cooler in time. Even still our facade is kind of taking shape.

Our green door with translucent glass highlights.

The laundry door, this will be seen by nobody and still it looks good. But I am biased.

The sparky was at the house today as well, it seems that second fix is happening sooner than we were expecting. Today he had installed power points and was in the process of cutting into the ceiling for the downlights. The tilers won't be in for a while yet so we are assuming that there will be another electrical fix once the interior gets close to completion.

Plastered - Pt 2

Now we have our walls plastered they just need to be 'finished off' and then the cornices will go in place.

Below we are looking back to the living space from our kitchen.

Here we are looking from the dining space over to the living space.

And the master bedroom which looks smaller than it really is. I promise, it's actually quite large.

Plastered - Pt 1

After a week or so of delays our plastering began on Thursday last week, first it was the ceiling which was installed in one day and then on Friday the wet areas were completed. The rest of the plaster will hopefully (fingers crossed) be completed in the next week just in time for our cabinet makers to get going.

Here is the view back to the front door from the entrance hallway.

Our open plan kitchen/dining/living area. Currently looking rather messy, cluttered, and dangerous for small children, hopefully our interior will be slightly less messy, cluttered and dangerous.

Our ensuite including plaster cut-out for the spa. Yeah, the spa, you'll just have to visualise for now though okay.

The laundry. It looks small but it's not really, it will be quite roomy actually.

We are insulated

Our plasterboard is on site and today the insulation was installed in all the walls and a part of the ceiling. The rooms feel 'enclosed' now and the spaces within the house are much more real. Now they can whack up the plasterboard and we'll be looking good.

Above is our main living area looking back towards the open plan kitchen, below is our rumpus.

Yesterday the roof capping was finally in place after the gutters and fascia around the portico were finally sorted out. It seems the builder was 'winging' our custom portico design, so once the brickies had the portico up the roof was shaped around it.

After visiting our cabinetmakers again yesterday to sign off on our kitchen and cabinets we made a few late unexpected changes. The selection blog entry has been amended accordingly and you can see the links to our new selections. Our changes are from a 'Platinum Essa Stone' benchtop to a 'Basmati Essa Stone', we also have been forced to change our main bathroom vanity due to our Laminex being deleted, it's a good change though as we love the new 'Zincworks Laminex' that we have selected and have picked it now for our laundry as well as the main bathroom. Hopefully only a few weeks until we see the kitchen installed according to our cabinetmaker and site manager. Exciting stuff...

Brickwork - check!

Just before lunch today the brickies polished off the last of our portico, now it looks like a house. Notice the precise brickwork on the left that will be left exposed and then the less precise study on the right that will be rendered.

The portico itself has given our builder something to think about as they try to make our roof and gutters fit into the facade correctly. They will get it right because they have to!

The portico will be rendered for those of you that may be wondering.

We also have had first fix of our ducted vacuum installed. My back already feels better just looking at the inlets, and you can just about hear that tiny 'whirr' as the almost-silent vacuum fires up on demand.