Our Homey - Finally Moved In!!

Minor Update: Bricks have been washed. They look really great! (if I do say so myself!) I'll try and get a picture up soon. We're very happy with how the colour came up.. nice and reddish, just the way we wanted. What else.. ooh yeah, cornices finished (except for where our rangehood and upper cabinets are going to be in the kitchen) and our internal doors have been delivered! WOO HOO!

AND we were actually properly locked out this weekend! Haha.. we've managed to get in and have a look so far, but this weekend all the doors were locked tight! I guess it's a good thing; if we cant get in, then hopefully no one else can either and steal our doors!

Nearly there, nearly there! *does happy dance*

Well, now that work is well under-way on the inside, I shall reveal the colours we’ve picked and hopefully, they’ll look pretty good together.

Our timber bifolds, French doors and front door will be stained in “Rosewood”. I wanted to keep the natural look of the wood.. I think I have a thing for timber.. hee hee.

For the walls, we’ve picked Wattyl “Kid Leather”, architraves Wattyl “Oriental White” and for the internal doors we’ve picked a third colour, Wattyl “Flokati” (at an extra cost of course.. *sigh*).

Our kitchen benchtop we upgraded to Cat 2 Quantum Quartz “Tornado” with an Aris edging and we chose Laminex “Sarsen Grey” for our cabinets in satin finish at first, but a little while ago, our CSC emailed and told us that Laminex dont do “Sarsen Grey” in the satin finish anymore, but they do do it in the gloss finish. Go figure! I really like the colour so we changed it to the gloss. We upgraded to the vinyl wrap cabinets cuz I was worried the standard ones would start peeling in a couple of years. I think the price was worth it.. I just realised we do have alot of cupboards! We also changed the sink to two full sinks instead of the 1&3/4 or whatever it was. I cant work with a small sink!!

Our bathroom vanities and laundry cabinets are in “Oyster Linea”, and our laundry benchtop we changed to “Stipple Seal”.

< Sarsen Grey < Oyster Linea < Stipple Seal

Our wet area tiles will be a Cat 2, “Cliffstone black” with a “Pebble Tan” feature in the shower niches and along the floor next to the bathtub.


This pic is what we based our wet-area tiling on.. we LOVED the colour of the tiles!

This week, the kitchen was installed, so were the bathroom vanities and the laundry cabinet, and all our doors have been stained! Yay!

And now.. PICS!! Finally! ** partner was able to get inside on Friday evening.. buahahaha! :D I made sure he locked up when he left.






Our lovely cleaned bricks.


Our front door.


The wood-look garage door.. LOVING this!! It matches the stain we've chosen for our timber doors. Definately worth the extra money.




Our two sets of French doors.


Bi-folds.


My kitchen cabinets! YAY!!


Pantry (left) and fridge space.


We've asked for only one set of pot drawers, but in this pic you can see there are TWO; to the left and the right of the stove space. I dont think I need that many, but am I looking a gift horse in the mouth?




The ensuite vanity.


The bathroom vanity.


Laundry cabinet. I cant see it properly, but I think they've used the wrong colour for the benchtop!!

Anyways, we’re planning to put floorboards throughout the entire rest of the house, just cant decide which to use. Thinking of going Blackwood or Merbau, or something different!! Any experiences/ideas anyone has would be very helpful.

Sorry.. such a long post.. hee hee. I havent updated for a long time! Anyways, SS has been GREAT. He's contacted us and updated us on what's been happening and when each bunch of tradies will be going through the house doing their thing. He wants to do a walk-through with us sometime this coming week, I think before the painters come through, just to make sure everything is supposed to be where it is.

So close.. so close!!

Keep the pot drawers!!! I hope I get a mistake like that. I'm building the Tulip in Wallan.

The Tulip is by Burbank and I'm just up the road from you in Wallan.

PS. Pot drawers are also great for Tupperware etc.

Extra pot drawers are a massive bonus! Keep them!

klscomps, I'm also building in Wallan!