Framing Day 96 - Shower Screens!!!

Under the "Design is in our DNA" promotion that we signed under, the shower screens were meant to be the Stegbar "semi-frameless" ones. When I looked at their site, that to me, meant the Grange series.

However, others appear to have had different results in interpretation of what "semi-frameless" actually meant and equated too.

So, after quite a few emails back and forth between myself and our BC, I was informed that it would indeed be the Grange.

I believe that this is what we have had installed!

Master ensuite shower screens are in!

Framing Day 96 - Exterior Update

We arrived later in the day, and it was overcast, so the pictures are a little darker than usual.

A closer view of the painted mouldings.

The re-rendered, moved power point.

Dirt had been scraped from the back yard and placed against certain points of the house.

Why aren't these internally wired? I hope it will be tidied up.

Framing Day 95 - Exterior Mouldings Painted

One of the things we were most uncertain of was the colours of the mouldings and other external features that can be highlighted.

Based on the Waldorf colours at Berwick, we went with the Ironstone moulding colours. That worked well there, but they have a black tiled roof, and we've gone with a Surfmist colourbond one (as the gouging for Coolmax was unacceptable).

Then we saw the colours of the Waldorf Grange at Greenvale, which features the Long Island facade. However, it too also has a dark roof.

The Long Island facade on the Waldorf Grange.

So I'd had many discussions with David asking to to check the colours, and even his opinion. He kept telling me that they were going to be Astor White, which is what I had wanted to change too. Although even then, I wondered if with a white roof, would it be too bleached or washed out?

So, imagine my surprise when I arrived on Saturday, not only to find that the fence had come done, but that the original Ironstone colours had been used!

The mouldings have been painted in Ironstone.

Despite David and I having discussed this on at least three occasions, we were talking about different things! So, I should have acted on that nagging doubt in the back of my mind and sent him a picture of the colour selection where it had all been drawn out by the WoS girls in different colours to illustrate the different selections.

In the end, I'm actually quite happy about it, and I think that if they had been done in white (especially with the white roof) then it probably would have been too washed out.

What do you think?

Framing Day 90 - Massive Interior Updates

After picking my boys up from school, we all got to go and have a look whilst there was good light. We found the painters there, I thanked them from helping us build such a nice home. They looked back at me as if I had two heads. I had a good chat to the boss, Paul. He said that most people don't talk to them (which is pretty much what the framer said months before) at all, much less say thank you. "It doesn't happen" were his words. Sad really.

I would encourage everyone to talk to the tradies and let them know that their efforts are appreciated, if not verbally, a case of beer never goes astray.

The guest (princess) suite ensuite.

Guest suite shower.

Guest suite floor.

Partial kitchen splashback.

Laundry splashback.

Laundry.

Laundry floor. The slab manager had no issues putting a drain here. I wish we'd known that!

Not too much out of square.

The galley sink.

And tiled splashback.

A closeup of the kitchen cupboards.

A wider angle view.

The SS was not happy that it was straight. So it came down to be replaced.

The spa has been delivered!

Bedroom bathroom.

Bedroom bathroom.

The front is north facing; lots of natural light.

Another bedroom bathroom.

Master Ensuite. I wish we'd been asked which way to lay them, either by National Tiles or the Tiler. I'd have requested them to be vertical if asked. It looks odd. Time will tell if I can live with it.

Spa will be next.

Master ensuite shower.

Master ensuite shower.

All of the heat lamps are in.

Framing Day 89 - Kitchen Splashback Done

We got to the house whilst there was still light, and only only take these pictures from the outside through the glass doors, so apologies for the grainy pictures.

Framing Day 85 - Tiling Begins!

Tiling has begun!

And other updates.

The first tiles have been placed.

Too close to a water tap.

Framing Day 80 - Waterproofing, Painting, Tiling and Wiring!

It had been a busy two days. Not only could I get a decent look at the waterproofing (yes, and my footprints!), the tiles had been delivered! I'd been worried all along that the lovely tiles we'd ordered were no longer available. We had one switch performed on us, but I was worried that the lovely textured (not flat) tile for the splashback and galley would be added to the "no longer available" list. Thankfully, that was not the case! Some of the wiring had also started to have been pulled through.

Some of this has actually been tidied up.

One of the upstairs bathrooms waterproofed. All of them were done.

Tiles have arrived!

Wiring starting to come through.

The painting continues.