Alkira Homes "The Sienna" KDR Ryde (NSW) - complete

They had the slide placed where the linen pantry is upstairs leading back down to the ground floor bedroom.

I think they are almost done with the main part of the work. The rest of the plastering for the gaps and cornices is next..

Hoping to see the amount of light that gets bounced around during the day

I don't think it is a huge issue but OHS compliance, liability ... and sometimes people being stupid and then sue the builders mean certain rules need to be enforced a little more.

I was with the SS the other day and almost stepped on a piece of wood that had a nail pointing up. So I can understand why...

The times I did go and no trades were there I would msg SS and ask if it was ok.

How was the progress for the rest of the week?

Words are wind. Show us some photos

waiting ...

Ooh, no worries... Good progress today - yay

ok ... now for the photo update. I mentioned that there was a hive of activity which has now died down. Site has been cleared of a lot of the debris which is good. A fresh load of gravel laid down in front of the driveway. So we're slowly moving to the next phase.

Due to ground floor being laid with tiles I was told the stacker doors will need to be taken down and adjusted higher to allow the flush finish we want. There was a small problem with the wall from the void and not really meeting flush with the stackers which is definitely not what I was expecting. It is a squared finish but just looks odd and doesn't flow so have requested the SS to fix that before DW complains later on and would be more a headache at later stages. The fireplace room I was expecting squared corners but ended up with cornices instead. Personal preference and considering the style of the house not a huge issue, the display home was a rendered version so less cornices the better.

Now for all the pic piggies ...

View from the kitchen towards the living room and fireplace


View from the kitchen to the guest room, void on the left and stairs on the right


View of the stairwell area
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Looking towards the front of the house, take note of the front door frame!
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from the stairwell looking back to the kitchen, dining, living room and alfresco. winter brrrr
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Cornices are up now and this is the view of the garage
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Void view from upstairs, take note of this one as well
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Bathroom is walled up and floor has been waterproofed, now for the walls
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View from the master bedroom looking at the retreat and the walk in robe (sky light might have to do for this room)


From retreat looking back to the void (bedrooms on the left, stairs and the 4th bedroom on the right)


View from the living room looking back to the house. Such open spaces! Winter will be very cold brrr


I have fence! ... done with the neighbour.. chapter is officially closed (still have to clean their paved area due to the rain etc sand and dirt is covering their paved yard)


I have new slab for the air con. They sized up the unit but the architects didn't know and I certainly didn't know ... let's see what the end product will be. It could be mighty noisy hahaha


Now for some photos of the display ... it will roughly look like that minus the pretty rangehood and white shelves on either side of the rangehood and the wood panelling on the ceiling. Colour scheme is pretty close (just realised about the wall / ceiling due to void .. hmmm how will they paint that?)


OMG! .. look at that view! ... It will look "roughly" like that (hopefully). See the lights they've used.. just not sure about brightness. Have purchased 6 wall lights already very similar and hopefully will be ok.


Look at the display home front door!! ... It wasn't until I looked at my own and went back to have a look at the display did I realise they were different in height!!


so... there you go ... that's the update so far.

Maybe your ceilings are higher than the display in that area? I don't know of course - just putting it out there.

True. Either you have a higher ceiling AND higher rumpus entry (to the right), or your door is lower than the display. Cheeky gits!