Inside!

Managed to get inside the house again and took a few more pics. It was getting on towards dark so the quality isn't that great, but here goes;

The kitchen island bench. Avonite 'Arctica' bench and Formica 'Flaxon' cupboards and drawers.

On the other side of the kitchen - unfinished. Again, Avonite 'Arctica' benchtiop, Formica 'Flaxon' pot drawers and Laminex 'Burnished Wood' cupboards.

The ensuite vanity. Laminex 'Stipple Cocoa' benchtop over Laminex 'Espresso' cupboard doors.

A two part pic of the robe fit-out in the dresser. Worth every penny.

The main bathroom. Laminex 'Stipple Seal' benchtop over Laminex 'Espresso' cupboard doors.

The Powder Room and the Laundry benches and cupboards use the same colour scheme as the bathroom.

Cabinets!

"Where there's a will, there's a way."

I spoke too soon, there is most definitely a desire to get into the house and check out all the work that has been done, but unfortunately my arms aren't skinny enough or long enough to reach around and unlcok a window ... or two. So all the pics have been taken through a gap in the window.

The garage floor has been concreted, which is an unexpected bonus. I had always thought that it would have been done a lot later in the build, when the house is almost complete.

The first of the cabinets have been installed!

The ensuite:
The vanity in the cabinet has been fitted and looks great. Needs to have the kickboard fitted and then tiled,

Was able to get a glimpse into the dresser and it looks as if the wardrobe fit-out has been done. Was able to get a pic of the two baths to be installed. The one on the left is the standard .. the one on the right is the upgraded version that forever will be know as 'my bath'! :) Just a little bigger than normal bath!

Two views of the kitchen. There are cupboards to be installed against the wall in the space to the right of the drawers behind the island bench and overheads along the wall. (My description was really bad, sorry) Expect that to be done tomorrow, so will head over for more pics.

Can't help but be very pleased with how well the colours work together - it's always hard to know if you made the right decision based on the little swatches.

The laundry bench has also been installed, but the pic of that is awful - so I won't subject you to that!

Colours - The Kitchen

I have just finished trawling the Laminex website and have been able to put together the colours we have chosen for our kitchen.

This is the layout of the kitchen, K1 is the island bench, K2 the main bench and K3 the fridge recess / wine rack.

The main cupboard doors are Laminex Burnished Wood, with the grain running vertically.


Pot drawers, the wine rack and the island bench are in Formica Flaxon.


The benchtops are going to be Avonite and in Artica.


The splashback and behind the rangehood is going to be tiled. 100mm by 400mm (laid horizontally) white tile, 500 mm above the benchtop will run a 50mm wide listello tile (sorry, didn't take a picture of it and can't find it on the 'net) across the length of the bench, and about 400mm (or so) from the left wall we are going to run a 5mm wide 'pencil' from benchtop to under the overhead cupboards.

The overhead cupboard doors are going to be aluminium frames with frosted glass.

A Look at the Display Home

I have been organising my pictures today, trying to get some sort of system going, and have been amazed at;

1. Some of the odd things I have taken photographs of. A close up of the silliest things. They must have meant something to me at the time, but what was I thinking when I took a close-up of the water meter?
2. The number of times I have photographed the same thing on different occasions. I am sure there must be six different photographs of the same wall on my hard drive.

Anyway, I thought I would post a small sample of photgraphs I have taken of the display home.

The Front Elevation.
Our home is going to look like this, except that we have chosen different colours for the render, and we have changed the number and style of outside lights. We thought that five lights on the front of the house is a little overkill, so have reduced the number to two, one either side of the garage entry.

The Kitchen
We have removed the 'feature' from the end of the island bench, but that aside, the kitchen layout isd exactly the same. The rangehood has been upgraded since the photo was taken and the model included with the house has a nice curved glass canopy and looks rather swish actually. The pendants are similar to the ones we have purchased for over the bench.

The Ensuite
This is (one of) my extravagances. For some reason I just 'had' to have this bath included in the ensuite. It's almost big enough to be used as a lap pool. It's adds a little 'wow' to the ensuite, and that's always good!


Change the square basins to round and you have an idea of what the vanity in the ensuite will look like.


So, that's a small sample of what the house will look like, obviously the colours will be different. I am afraid that will have to wait until tiles and cupboards/drawers/ benches are installed so I can take pictures for you all. (It's a boy thing!)

Colours ... from the top! Part II

What would I know?? :)

The final (for now) choice of roof tile is .... (drumroll please) .... 'truffle'

The usual disclaimers about being subject to change still apply.

Colours ... from the top!

Part One of many.

Rayleen has rethought the colour scheme for our new home, originally we were going with a graphite coloured tile roof, with charcoal guttering and fascias and a dark, dark brown over light brown render. Now, after a re-think we both decided that maybe we could step away from that colour scheme and try something a little different.

So, it's time to pick the new colour for the roof tiles. On the left we have 'sandalwood' and on the right is 'truffle'. At the moment 'sandalwood' appears to be winning, but that may change ... and I am sure it will.

The actual colours are a couple of shades darker than they appear here, the flash has washed them out a little.