Building the "Cascade" (photo updates)

Visited site over the weekend kitchen cabinets now appear to be finished except for the ceasar stone benchtops, sinks, tapware and appliances. It appears that the overheads at one end of kitchen are incorrect, they should have glass inserts rather than solid doors. We will be meeting SS on site on Friday to discuss this. Architrves & skirting boards nearly completed. Painters should commence later this week.

Still having to take photos through dirty windows so quality is still poor.

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These overheads should have glass inserts & shelves
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This is where the Induction cooktop will go with rangehood above
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Laundry

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Visited site on Friday and met with SS to discuss progress and some concerns regarding cabinets. Overhead cabinets in first picture were supposed to have glass fronts & shelves so they could be used for display purposes. SS will get on to cabinet makers and get them changed. Other than this we are very happy with kitchen cabinets so far. SS says it will be 4-5 weeks before caesar stone bench tops are installed.
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The light coloured overhead cabinets are supposed to have glass doors! Tower will hold coffee machine, warmer drawer & microwave
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Bench next to wall tower will have induction cooktop & BBQ grill with rangehood over, tower will hold Conventional oven & Steam oven.
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Butlers pantry cabinets
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Bench which will house sink in Butlers pantry
More minor problems with cabinets in laundry and en suite again SS assured us they would be rectified. Caesar stone tops are still 4-5 weeks away.
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Vanity in en suite, doors on overhead shaving cabinets should be the same as those below
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Laundry cabinets, overhead should be all dark with no white showing
Along with seeing the cabinets in the flesh for the first time we also found that the front door had been installed and covered in plastic sheeting to protect it from the elements and tradies prior to being stained. WIR have been delivered and one has been installed. While we were on site the painter arrived to confirm where we are having our feature walls and that he had the colour schedule correct. He will start painting this week and expects to take about 3 weeks.

Before we left I asked SS when we might expect the house to be ready for handover. He said that realistically it is probably about 10 weeks away!!! This will take us well into October.
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First of the WIR fitted

Hi Toast,

Warmer drawer is a plate warmer which we will use to warm coffee cups prior to use
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Steam oven is what the name suggests an oven for steam cooking especially useful in Asian cooking.
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And no, no chef in the house but my wife loves cooking and this is her domain!

Wow! What a home! It looks great!

Love the WIR and all the cabinets

Well it's been two weeks since we have added any posts, this has been because there has been very little visible action. For the last week the painters have been in and have apparently completed all the walls and ceilings, the rest of this week they expect to finish all the fiddly bits such as eaves, skirting boards, architraves and feature walls.

We originally asked and paid for 6 feature walls (1 x living area, 1 x Home theatre, 1 x Lounge, 1 x Master bedroom and 2 x Main entrance) all in just a matt finish. Since then we have asked the painter to add a further 4 feature walls (3 x Home theatre and 1 x master bedroom) he will also upgrade to a suede finish on Living area, Lounge and Master bedroom.

Other work done since the last post includes vanity unit in garage toilet, WIR completed (unfortunately no pictures as yet), extra bulkheads in kitchen and doors/servery window/ceiling in alfresco have been stained.

SS said that he is getting the tiles organised this week and tiling should commence next week.
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Alfresco doors stained
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servery window
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Vanity unit in garage

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A site visit yesterday found a lone painter still plodding away. So far only the Home Theatre (Deep Indian Red), front entrance (Bronco Brown) features walls have been completed. They have put the wrong colour in the lounge room so will now have to redo it. We had been told all painting would be completed by last Friday but as yet eaves around canopy, Master bedroom and living area feature walls are not done. Hopefully all will be done by the end of this week.
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The visit also revealed that both WIR's were now nearly complete with only framed mirror for WIR yet to be fitted. This will be done after painting according to cabinet maker. Aam is happy with all the shoe & handbag storage but wishes there was room for more!!!
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WIR No 1
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Spaces for shoes
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Spaces for handbags
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Pull down shirt rails in WIR No 1

Very nice!!!!

They are Polytech Melamine Avon Beech finish.

http://www.polytec.com.au/colours.php?select_samples_category=16