Fascias & Gutters

Wednesday 12th November

Drive by this morning and noticed the Fascias & Gutters have been completed.

Drive by this afternoon and the roof tiles have been delivered

School drop off & pickup has never been so exciting!

Contract Appointment

Today we ventured back to Porter Davis Offices to attend our Contracts Appointment.  We ran through everything with Sarah who will be our building co-coordinator.

All of the choices we had made at the colour, electrical and tile appoints were costed and presented.  We also made some minor tweaks to the house including frosting to a window or two, and a change of cabinet colour in the bathrooms/powder rooms

Once all was agreed a formal contract was signed and balance of the deposit paid -YAY!

The ball is now in our court to get council approval.

Here are generic ground and 1st floor plans with the galley/pantry option and the first floor powder room option.  There are also other minor changes (window sizes/positions) but this gives you the general idea of the layout.

Ground Level

First Floor

Colour and Electrical Appointment

We visited Hopetoun Interiors today for our colours and electrical appointments. First was the colours, where we selected all of our finishes including: bricks, mortar, roof tiles, garage door, gutters, downpipes & fascia, windows, doors, door hardware, wall colour, cornice, skirting, bench tops, cabinetry, handles, sinks, basins, baths, taps, rails, stairs, carpet and of course the toilets - all which have soft closing lids - no more slamming - nice!  It was a great day, and our consultant Stephanie was really nice and easy to work with. We didn't take photos of our exact selections for everything, but we will add photos/style names in as we go if we can.

Door Handles

Showers, taps, towel rails and toilet roll holders

Exterior

Our brick colour is Homestead Mushroom, the render is Rattlesnake, other colours we are using are Gully and Woodland Grey (gutters, downpipes, garage door and other stuff) The roof tiles are Barramundi. Don't you just love the names of the colours?!

Kitchen

We are having a white on white kitchen (again)  As you know, we recently renovated our old kitchen - and loved it - so this one won't be much different. It won't be exactly the same, but there will be a lot of similarities - why change something we already loved?  The cabinetry will be polar white vinyl wrap (semi gloss) and the bench tops will be bone white (essastone) The kickboards will be a silvery grey colour.  We haven't decided on the splashback yet - it will be tiles, so we will choose that at our tiling appointment.

Electrical

Once colours were done, we saw an electrical consultant, Nathan. He was great to work with, knew his stuff, and was fast and friendly.  We managed to spend our budget upgrading lighting, power points, TV points, etc.  In a few areas they will supply the electrical rough-in and we can install what we like post hand-over - for example fans - we didn't really like the ones they offered, so we will choose our own.

We are considering the 7" Colour Video Doorphone with Recording and Perpetual Function..so we will see all our visitors, and we can see if the kids try and sneak out, and when they are older if they get home on time...mwahahahaha...

Soil Tests

Porter Davis conduct soil tests to confirm site costs.

Not much to see but at least something has happened!