2012 - finally some more pics!

Well, we STILL aren't in but we are oh so close. Here are a few pics. Sorry it's been so long! (if anyone is actually still reading???)

Our lovely kitchen and family room with the french doors on now which lead up the stairs to the front door.

looking in the other direction towards the back yard and the alfresco area.

the kitchen (sans appliances).

the sink with the underbench filter.

another view

the kitchen drawer handles which I have no doubt my toddler will use for climbing practice....

the formal lounge

looking lowards the front door (with glass bricks above it) from the other side of the french doors.

our walk in pantry

another view of the walk in pantry

and again

chris's walk in wardrobe

and another view of chris's WIR.

Hopefully we will be in in the not too distant future (do I always say that??). cross your fingers for us!!

Happy New Year??

Well, I can't believe how long its been since I last posted. It is now 2012 and despite all our best intentions to be in the house....well, we are not :(

Why the delay? To be honest, its impossible to point to one factor. It seems to be a combination of things. A big issue is the people that we have helping us, whilst doing great work, seem to be "part time" in that they frequently go off to do other jobs. So it feels to me that we have no continuity. There may not be that much left to do, but we don't seem able to get a good run on it.

However, every day something small is achieved and, although it may be small, its still a step towards being in (so I keep telling myself).

Next week our WIRs and walk in pantry are going in so I will post some pics once that's done.

Happy new year everyone! I hope hope hope its a happy new year for us!!

lights!

We are trying to decided between two lights to have over our kitchen bench. I think I am liking the first one more - it is made from rattan with an inner tube.

We borrowed the two lights we like to see how they look. There will obviously be two pendants over the bench.

Thoughts are welcome!!!!

More kitchen

Here we have the unit we had made up to store wine, the microwave, cookbooks and the kettle and toaster.

Front on - we are pretty pleased with it.

the whole picture :)

I love the bi-fold door as opposed to those awful roller doors.

A side view of our handles.

Spa and kitchen

Here is our lovely working spa bath - can't wait to use it~!

Love this spout.

Here is our downstairs bathroom and functioning toilet :)

This is the laundry looking towards the back door and you can see the huge cupboard on the right which has shelves all down one side and a long open section on the right for the ironing board, brooms etc

The other side of the laundry.

Our lovely kitchen!! This is our three metre bench.

The 6 "secret" cupboards

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Our great pot drawers.

The Oliveri sink

The quantum quartz benchtops being weighted down over night.

Tada! With the benchtops on. So Alpine White QQ - 60mm the whole way round.

Very happy with the waterfall edge.

Lots of light being reflected.

Needs to be plumbed and then we can get the appliances in.

The sink in situ.

The (almost) finished product.

The Kitchen

Our kitchen has finally gone in!!

We settled on natural white for the cupboards and our benchtops will be Caesarstone "Snow"

We are sourcing our benchtops separately so we can shop around. Also, now that the carcass is in situ, when the stone masons measure up they will be more accurate than just off the plan.

Our breakfast bench is 3m long and has lovely deep pot drawers. We also have "secret" doors on the other side.

Looking out towards the alfresco area and backyard.

We are pretty happy with it so far. Very much looking forward to getting the benchtops on.