Brisbane Build with Dixon

Hello all,

Thought it was time for an update! This is our progress as of the Christmas shutdown on December 21. We sneaked inside after the workmen had left [yes, we 'sneaked' even though they are building our house - but I'm sure you know what that is like!] - and we discovered . . . walls! Well at least the basics of them! Finally we could start to visualise the spaces more clearly. So here's another photobomb of all of that! Hope all had a brilliant Christmas and wishing you all an equally amazing New Year of smooth timelines and plans all coming together!
 Emerging PorchLike  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 Bricking completed up to roof levelLike  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 Bricking to rear roof levelLike  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 Interior stairsWindow at the top with view! :DLike  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 Slider in garageThey finally changed the door to slide in our desired direction!Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 Windows in upstairs living from kitchenScaffolding blocking the view!Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 Windows from lounge endYou can see the view a little more over the scaffolding! Mainly the treetops!Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 Above bench windows in kitchenHusband peeking! Rangehood and splashback will sit between these. Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 Master - entry to walk in robe and ensuiteLike  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 Master - windows to the front of houseLike  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share


p.s. By golly those workmen leave a mess!

Thanks gr8ly! Yes we were surprised that the bricking and interior walls were done relatively quickly - particularly given the rain we have had. But we are very happy about it! Hope the rest keeps this momentum. Handover - that elusive concept! We are hoping for the end of March. As a teacher I'm also hoping to move in the Easter break, makes it a lot easier!

I'm sure that you too will be surprised once they start on the framing in the new year how quickly it will all go. My fingers, toes and all else are mentally crossed for you!

On a side note - we just went and purchased a new bedroom suite for our master bedroom. A kingsize bed! Have wanted one forever but we were given a queen suite as an engagement present 28 years ago and we have used it since then. Husband caved when he saw it - a modern twist on the colonial but all in white with a massive headboard and drawers at the end - but it should work with our higher ceilings. We are both vertically challenged so a king probably seems a bit much but these are the things that that dreams are made of - the things we would like that don't necessarily make logical sense!

It's disgusting how much rubbish and total disregard builders have while onsite. I'm sure if they were working on their house, they would take a lot more care.. We are always finding random rubbish on our lot. It's almost too much effort to use the site bin.

anyway nice progress ... are you already at lockup?

we finally have frames.. although not entirely complete yet. Hoping frames are completely done this week, with the roof the week after. We are moving slowly but its progress nonetheless.

Hello Joggles,

Wow your flying along, the progress is fantastic and your colours are coming together beautifully.

Love all your photos it’s so nice to see your having a great build.

Can’t wait to see the next installment.

Hello Joggles,

How is everything progressing? Agree completely about over thinking the colours I’m in that boat with my carpet.

School has been fantastic and the kids are loving being back, I hope you have a great bunch of kids in your class.

think it's common these days to go through a few site supervisors. We are onto our third as well.. Love the lounge light. Any progress is progress i guess.

Hello all!

Finally made it to the Easter break and have a little time to update re our build. After a number of weeks post-Christmas where not much occurred, under the new SS there has been a great deal of progress. We are now technically at 'practical completion' although there's still a few things to do before . . . [insert drum roll] hand over!

There's been a few glitches in the last week, rain notwithstanding, including kitchen benches that needed adjustments to ensure correct placement for our stove top under the rangehood and downpipes that need final connection to avoid more pools of water around the site.

Also still to do:
* install air cons
* install security screens and doors
* driveway and bits of external concreting.

According to our schedule all of this and site clean should happen in the next week - approximately. But we'll believe that when we see it!

However we understand that the Easter long weekend has impacted upon some of this, so we are attempting to stay positive, although when trying to coordinate a move from one property to another while not having a definite date for handover - it is rather fraught with loads of frustration and an occasional 'gets on my last nerve' tendency to get snippy between us all, husband and two adult children included! But we can finally see light at the end of the 18 month process of selling our family home, deciding to build, having a failed negotiation with one builder through multiple designs to settle on another builder, again working through a number of designs - to now seeing it all starting to come together! And of course the gazillion decisions that needed to be made between then and now!

We are actually starting to get excited which is a luxury we haven't allowed ourselves for a while! I've attached a few update pics but will throw up a few more once the rubbish pit that is our front yard has been cleared away.

Hope the Easter break has been suitably relaxing and rejuvenating for you all and that the keyword for all your build processes whatever stage you are at is SMOOTH!  EntryRendering to front pillars and up/down lights now completed.Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 Vinyl Planks Ending up going with Kenbrock AspenwoodLike  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share



 End of kitchen bench and flooringYou can just see the bottom of one of the four large windows in this area. Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 Lounge area upstairs. Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 Master Bedroom flooringMetropol Granite carpet - you can see some dusty footprints! Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 Stair Lights Vinyl Planks here too. Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 View from upstairs kitchen, dining and lounge.Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

Thanks gr8ly! It certainly is a draining process all around. We said after our first build we would never do it again. But here we are! As a teacher, I'm on school holidays now but we're not likely to be able to move until we have just started the new term. So I will be back at work and husband and children will need to coordinate . . . hang on that doesn't actually sound like a bad plan. I think the reality will be afternoons and evenings of Mum coordination of the family troops!