Settling in quite nicely.

It has been just over a month since hand over and we have been living here for about 3 weeks (not sure of the exact first sleep). The house is now liveable and we really don't have that much more to do inside except for some art for the walls. On the weekend our wonderful Bro-in-law came up to tile our alfresco and wow what a job. So now we can sit out on the alfresco and enjoy out little piece of paradise. The driveway has been down now for 2.5 weeks just waiting for the concreter to covercrete it, but due to crap weather he keeps on pushing the date back, which is having a knock-on affect on landscaping.

Enjoy the pics. 

Living Room

Living/Dining and Alfresco

Gorgeous tiles go with our gorgeous wicker setting.

My view while I was having breakfast

Chill out room

Gorgeous Kitchen to Alfresco

Lovely Study

Entry

My herbs

Nice Pantry

    

Main Bed

View from main bed to Alfresco

Walk in robe

Bed 2 - guest bed and also when we have conflicting shifts.

TV room

Bed 3

Bed 4

 Pics of the Broski doing what he does best.

Great Tiler! This is the magical moment our Tiler laid two tiles at once in perfect placement. Not often you see that happen.

Concentrate now boys

Not sure what is happening here

View from our little patio (where I hope to put a jacuzzi
someday soon)

Is that a yoga pose?

Job well done

Timber Flooring (part 2)

Timber flooring was completed today. It looks really good. The quad board (scotia, mouse board) has been fitted and it really makes the flooring look super. We spent the afternoon trying to get all the dust off the floor and plumbed the dishwasher. No leaks so far. Just need to get the cooker back in place without scratching the floor. You can now see how nice the stools look (good buy Margie) along with the book ends for the shelf on top of the fridge. We have placed a couple of statues in the niche, we never intended to place all 3 there, but we kinda like it. Now we just need to get all the rest of our crap over there.

Book ends above the fridge. Cooking books go here.

Final floor. Looks great. Very happy.

Living Room. We have still to tile the Alfresco. Free room board and beer for the Broski (you know who you are).

Kitchen Stools. Bit 70's with a modern look. I love them.

Entry to Alfresco

Alfresco to Entry. With niche statues.

Timber Flooring

Today the timber floor was laid. They had to level the floor before-hand. This is something they do not tell you about until pretty much the last moment. The builders tolerances and the tolerances required for a timber floor are quite different. So they had to grind out high points in the concrete and fill in low points. Another $800 bucks thank you very much. I need to find out how to do that job. Hour and a half work, and almost a grand in the skyrocket. Nice. Anyway the floor is looking good, although the pictures are not complete. They still have to put on the quad edging (scotia, mouse board) whatever you call it. Carpet in next. We also fitted some curtains and blinds and assembled our stools for the kitchen bench (before flooring). Hope you like the pics...

Kitchen Stools before flooring. We had to remove the oven prior to flooring. Splash-back in place.

TV Room. A/C install also completed.

Hallway from Master Bedroom

Living Area

Dining and Kitchen with flooring.

Theatre Room - Going to be a chill-out room instead.

From entry looking through to Alfresco

Margie doing what she does best. I already feel the slap on the back of the head.

From Alfresco to entry.

Handover Day...26.04.2013

Wow!! we did it. We got the keys to our first home.

The handover went smooth, just a few things that need to be sorted out, but apart from that, we are so so happy with the final product.
I have yet to take any photos, I think I will leave that for now and will post some once the flooring in done.

R2D2 was the first car on the Driveway. Scott looks so so happy.

Landscaping.

Today we went out to have a look at some garden centres and were overwhelmed by the choices that are on offer. So tonight I thought I would have a go at a landscaping design and this is what I came up with.

This is how I would like our garden to look like. That is me walking to Scott on the Patio (right bottom). Obviously the shrubs at the front would go right up to the boundary.

* HAND OVER DAY 26th APRIL *

And the Big Man said, Let there be light: And there was light. And the Big Man saw the light, and it was good...

All the lights are now installed, albeit with a few dodgy globes (bulbs). We have installed down lights in many of the rooms, along with fan lights. The kitchen bench has pendants that the wifey sourced online, along with the dining table lights. These are the 4 white pendants, that are currently cable-tied higher than they will be. Hall wall lights as well, we may have to go for a lower wattage bulb in there, as they are a bit bright. We also have the garage door installed along with the outdoor front facing lights. They look very small, but we will have to see them at night time. We also installed a moat, though not to my specifications...

Kitchen and Dining

Dining and Living

Kitchen, Dining and Living

Alfresco

Theatre

Master Bedroom

Kitchen

Entry Hall

Entry Hall

The Moat I asked for

The Moat we got