Burns Build - Dale Alcock Finished Photos

Thanks! It is from Masters and more of a brown wood look.

Thanks want to use them to pretty up our WCs

Hi Tbrown2012... I'm a late comer to your conversation and really enjoyed reading about your "journey" from start to finish... I absolutely love your bench and servery and am seriously considering sacrificing some space to achieve that in our new home but I have a couple of questions for you if you don't mind... not sure if they've already been asked.
How functional is the position of your kitchen sink? Does it allow you to still see what's happening in your meals area? Still allows enough space on the servery when the window is open? Given the length of your bench... how many joins do you have? Are they noticeable? Thanks in advance... I'm sure your thoroughly enjoying your new home!!

Hi winter_1429, great to hear you enjoyed the thread
I would not change a thing in terms of the position of our kitchen sink. In answer to you specific questions.
Yes can easily see into meals area. Heaps of space on the servery when window open. We have 3 joins along that whole bench as its over 7m. 2 of them you don't see and one I am not that fond of, no one else seems to notice but I do!
Good luck with your plans

Thanks for the reply Tbrown2012 - that's all great to hear... do you think the colour/pattern of the stone you choose impacts on how much you will notice the join? I suppose the ability of the person installing it comes into play too!

Yes I think the colour/pattern does make a difference to how noticeable the join. We also had the joins redone a couple of times and do think it's the best they could do.

Hey Tbrown. Just preparing my post about interior paint colours and came across the interview of you on D.A.'s website. Very professional and house looks so, so good. Hope you are enjoying!

Omg I am admiring your beautiful house pictures just now and suddenly I catch sight of the street view- I kid you not I was at the BB playground the other day and as we were driving out of the suburb (I tend to meander along the streets in BB because there are some lovely houses), my daughter said, "If you had to have one of these houses, which one would you have?". I keep looking as I drove and spotted something so gorgeous that I pointed and said "That one!"....It was YOUR house!!!
Magnificent. Wish I'd done your external colours, maybe I'll be painting soon! Ironically I've got your internal colour as my external (albeit @300%).
Gorgeous pics (and dog). Love the family beach pics in the beechwood frames, really completes the whole beach house look.

Thanks housebythewater. Was rather nervous talking on camera. Keep seeing our pics pop up on their FB feeds, feels bizarre! It was a great experience and great ending to our building journey. Yes certainly loving the house!

Wow what amazing comments and compliment! Much appreciated !!!

Yes you are famous! I put you on House By The Water's Facebook page too: https://www.facebook.com/housebythewater?ref=hl and a couple of your pics on my blog this week. (Thank you!) You've done such a good job with the finishings and decoration in such a short time. I'm thinking that we'll take 1-2 years to get to the same point after handover.

Hahaha .... Love your blog and seeing all your inspirations for the house. It's going to be fantastic watching it all come together. Thanks for the comments on the decor, it had been such fun but has somewhat stalled as funds run out!! Still a few things I would love to get done, we didn't get any landscaping lighting so would love to have parts of the garden lit up at night, get some eco screens/ timber to cover that horrible fence and inside I am looking for some pendants for our bedroom and a new hall table light as ours broke.
Looking forward to your next update

Hey Tbrown - where are your kitchen pendants from? I have found numerous places that sell them but haven't seen them in person (only online) are you happy with the quality of yours?

Hi archetto, they are from Beacon "Aero" pendants. We initially bought the larger size but they were too big so got the smaller ones. My hubby loved them but I wasn't so sure. I was pleasantly surprised when they went up, really changed the whole look of the kitchen - love them now!

Thanks for that, looks like Beacon don't sell them anymore.

Hey archetto - saw them at Beacon Joondalup on the weekend!!!

Hi again +Tbrown2012! I've been stalking your kitchen plans and pics again and have a question... What have you done with the corner cupboard under your servery? It's a bit hard to tell from the pics... Have you gone with drawers in most places? Thanks in advance

Hi, the corner cupboard is a little awkward and we had to do it without a handle as it would cause a problem when opening and hitting the other cupboard. It is quite a big, deep corner space and great for storing bulky items which we don't use a lot. If I didn't have a lot of other cupboards I may have put in one of those corner cupboard swivel inserts which makes better use of corner space.
In terms of drawers, yes love my drawers, have 4 banks of 3 wide drawers.
Attached pic of corner cupboard and updated kitchen plans

Hey Tbrown, I really hope you are still on here because this exact same thing has happened to us and the SS reckons that he can't match it the same color because its different woods. I am really unhappy about that response. How did you go about getting it matched? did it work out in the end? did they fix it or did you sort it out after handover?

Hi Honeywood,

Yes, it was all sorted. SS agreed it looked horrible and said he would sort out. By the time PCI came along they had stained it and matches the door almost perfectly. I will see it I can find a photo.
Your SS needs to at least try match it, doing nothing is not good enough!