Some bathroom photos

Back Yard Pics

A few piccies of the trees - planted in the back yard over the last 3 years. Unfortunately the weeds in the nature strip behind are giving us more shelter from the road right now. . . (see the doggies' track?)

And here's the screen that we've half-finished. . .

Been a while

It's been a while. . . thought it was time to upload some more photos. . .

We bought a pendant light for the foyer:

Christmas

Our Christmas tree. . . wish all those pressies were for me!

After 18 months. . . we FINALLY got a driveway!!!!

Tradesman doing what tradesmen do best. . . . leaning

Scraping away that soil on the big girl

Formwork is in

First half is laid - we went for the coloured oxy stuff, charcoal grey

DONE!

Retaining Walls

We built a couple of retaining walls out front. . . (again, not as hard as they look). . .
Oh! Thats turf out there too. . . we did that. . . (not as hard as it looks). . .
And there's the excuse for a driveway that we put up with for a year and a half (crushed concrete. . . better than nothing!)

They're not quite finished in these photos. . . actually, they're still not quite finished!!!

Sunset shots

We went tree shopping today. . . which is always a bit of an impulse-buy situation for Phil and I. . . down to Downes Nursery (Theresa Park . . . just down the road from us. .. CRACKING deals on most things green.)

Picked up another Eucalyptus Robusta, Brushbox and a rather nice Acmena Smithii (which we're not going to prune, so hopefully it will grow to tree-proportions). Photo is from the alfresco (hello Beau). . . we'll have some privacy from that road in about a year I think! (I hope).

The ficus' are looking a bit sorry. . . they dropped all their leaves in the frost. . . poor trees.

I finished the SPICE RACK!!!!!!

Long time, no posts. . . sorry about that, been a bit busy. Obviously though, I haven't been busy making the spice rack, otherwise it would have been on the wall about three and a half months ago.

But finally, I got it finished this week, and now I am able to present to you . . . drum roll . . . THE SPICE RACK! YEAH!

It's actually 600mm wide x 1200mm tall. Houses all of my fifteen million bottles of herbs and spices nicely (most of which are well past their use-by date I might add. . . must start cooking at some point soon!) It's hung on the pantry wall, made of pine with a laminate board backing, and painted in satin enamel, in the same colour as the pantry shelf wooden bits.

More photos to follow of other stuff. . . soon. . . honest. . . if we get anything else finished.

Trench

We put in some extra drainage, to take the water away from the front of the house. . . not as difficult as it looks!

Night Light Shots. . .

I was there late on Saturday night, working hard (while Phil went to the Bulldogs game). Took a few night-time lighting shots.

The garage external lights (one of the bulbs isn't working). . . with flash:
Without flash:
Theatre room downlights

Cutout downlights:

Front up/downlights (with flash):

Without flash:

Alfresco downlights on full dim:

And blazing bright. . . the stage!!!

Busy weekend

Well, a busy Saturday! We'd planned to finish off dog-proofing the back fence on Sunday, but it was an absolute scorcher, so we opted out.

Got the TV bracket up in the theatre room (only about $65 from Selby Acoustics). Went up a treat, I can't believe the same thing costs about $200 in Bunnings. . . here's a piccie. . .

Also finished fixing up the shoe shelf in the WIR, so now it no longer wobbles. . . repainted the wall behind the shoe shelf and the new wooden bits I used for the fixup.

Painted the render in the garage.

Did the final coat of varnish on the handrails.

Phil mowed the lawns.

Finished cabling up all the data lines.

Then on Sunday evening we sat down at the back fence, watered the trees and had a couple of beers.

Job's a good 'en.

Nearly there

It's pretty darned unbelievable, but we're nearly there. . . just one week away from handover.

I was at the house this morning, all the door handles and fittings were sitting beside each relevant door. . . (well, actually, they had the privacy and passage handles mixed up on the ensuite and master bed, so I just switched them). . . door stops were positioned next to the door handles. . . the cheap white plastic things. . . so I collected them all up and gave them back to Tom when he popped by. . . (we've ordered some nice black and silver door stops online, they should be here any day. .. didn't want them putting the wrong ones on!) The chippies should be in tomorrow to fit everything, and hopefully get all the remaining chippie stuff finished. Also, they're fitting the front door handle! Yay! Must remember to take a pic.

The gyprocker was arriving as I was leaving, so the kitchen bulkhead should be plastered and corniced today.

Dale the tiler was adding the finishing touches to the alfresco tiles and will also hopefully have tiled the splashback in the laundry.

Bob was painting the front wall with bitumen sealer for the fill which is going to be dumped against the wall on Monday (Jeff said something about putting an aggie sheet (whatever that is)and some brick rubble in between the wall and the dirt, with a channel at the bottom to drain the water away somewhere safe.) Goodo!

We have to finish off our little bits of painting and finish fixing up the back fence over the weekend, hopefully I'll have time to seal the grout in the ensuite too. . .

Aircon goes in on Monday. Earth is also being moved around on Monday (hopefully) with a few more truckfulls of fill being brought in. . . hurrah! More dirt!

Alarm and ducted vac install is finishing off on Wednesday.

Kitchen benchtop goes in (hopefully) on Wednesday.

Vanities and toilets and plumbing (hopefully) get done on Wednesday too. (Depending on when the vanities arrive).

Clothes line should be installed on Thursday or Friday.

Bamboo flooring goes in on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Handover is Friday! Woohoo!

Carpets going in a week on Monday and Wednesday.

We should be doing the "big move" on Tuesday.

Dishwasher is being installed a week on Wednesday.

Foxtel is being installed two weeks tomorrow. . .

There are an awful lot of "hopefully"s in there, aren't there?

Theatre room painted and electrics installed

We finished most of our painting over the weekend. . . including the theatre room! Yay! Sparkies installed 7 downlights in the coffered ceiling. . . two at the front, two at the side and three along the back. . . on three different dimmer switches, mainly so we can just have the back ones on low if we're watching a movie. . . good thinking Jeff! (Well, you didn't imagine that we'd think of anything so ingenius would ya?)

Exterior lighting

Up/downlights installed . . . 6 along the front of the house and three outside the garage doors. . .

12 downlights in the alfresco ceiling, a spotlight for the bbq (as Phil's a cooking star) and two batten lights (due to be replaced with ceiling fans after handover).

Sparkies have been sparking. . . I see the light!

Sparkies have been working hard. All of the power points, switches and most of the lights have been installed. They have to come back after handover and install our appliances and the ceiling fans, and we have a lot of bare battens that we have to furnish, but we're getting there!

Heat / fan / light in the main bathroom:
Pendants in the dining room. . . we shall shorten the cable lengths when we've got the flooring and table in there. . . honest!

Random shot of power points and switches:

Downlights in the cutouts:

Heat / fan / light in the ensuite: