Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Taking forever DFH 14Aug 10, 2012 12:22 pm Oh my splash back is going to be full of excitment... its cream!! Such a risk taker I am.. lol. I fell in love with the ceaserstone colour wild rice which is quite a dark brown and my beutiful floor tiles are called Saturnia Marrone which are also quite dark so I wanted to lighten things up a bit with the cupboards, the splashback and the wall colour is fairly light... I seem to have a really bad shopping addiction for stuff for the house so I stayed safe with the colours with the intention of jazzing it up with other things. I have already been doing so much shopping for this house, running out of places to keep everything until we get in there, the boot of the car is doing a good job of it at the moment.. Your splashback sounds really nice, would be good to see some pics when its done... It feels so long away before we can see all of our choices come together.. Re: Taking forever DFH 15Aug 10, 2012 12:33 pm I know what you mean I am addicted to lighting at the moment I've bought a heap of pendants to go in the house some with crystals some chrome. Can't wait to put them up. I also have been to a few Tupperware parties I had no intention of buying and ended up with a whole bunch of stuff to organize the walk in pantry ( which I have never had and am looking forward to ) we need to get a lot of furniture to fill the rooms so I'm saving for that my husband has suggested we wait until we are much closer so they can just deliver all the stuff to the house instead of moving it all which makes sence. If it was up to me I'd have all the furniture ready to go lol so I'm glad he is my voice of reason. Re: Taking forever DFH 16Aug 10, 2012 12:43 pm Oh and i forgot to mention Cream sounds nice with the colours you picked! We went with the laminate floor boards it's called manhattan spotted gum. The carpet you picked also was our original pic I found the carpet choices pretty poor I'm not a fan of the non plush ones and that was the only one in cat 1 that seemed remotely what we were looking for! We ended up upgrading because the colour matched better! Our ceaserstone for the kitchen is osprey kind of an off white with fine stone speckles and I picked a different one for the ensuite called white shimmer has glitter speckles through it ( very Girly) and the free standing bath is black! Can't wait to see that installed Re: Taking forever DFH 17Aug 10, 2012 12:52 pm Oh we need a lot of new furniture too...after renting for a long time we moved in with my mother in law while we saved for the deposit and she was begging for some company so before we moved in we sold a lot of our furniture with the intention of buying new things... didnt think we would end up with 3 living areas though so probably might have been best to hang on to our old couches to fill some of the space... oh and your husband sounds like mine... dont buy any furniture until we get close and you can see what will work and then get it all delieverd at once... There are a lot of good online lighting shops so I think we might go to the actual stores see what we like and then try to find them online, much cheaper... I had wanted a beutiful pendant for the bedroom but my more sensible side is to have a ceiling fan but I have been looking at lights over the kitchen island bench... I like the look of the 3 over the bench but am really trying to find some that are slightly unusual as a bit of a wow to the room Re: Taking forever DFH 18Aug 10, 2012 1:00 pm our dream home Oh and i forgot to mention Cream sounds nice with the colours you picked! We went with the laminate floor boards it's called manhattan spotted gum. The carpet you picked also was our original pic I found the carpet choices pretty poor I'm not a fan of the non plush ones and that was the only one in cat 1 that seemed remotely what we were looking for! We ended up upgrading because the colour matched better! Our ceaserstone for the kitchen is osprey kind of an off white with fine stone speckles and I picked a different one for the ensuite called white shimmer has glitter speckles through it ( very Girly) and the free standing bath is black! Can't wait to see that installed We were going to do those floor boards too when we were considering doing the flooring after handover due to the builders margin they put on everything but then it became a matter of we just want to get in as soon as possible lets just get it done through the builder and there is no mucking around, turns out I am really super happy about the floor tiles lol... A Black bath tub in the ensuite is really going to give it a big wow factor... (I have never seen a black tub so please please post some pics so I can see and with the white shimmer will be pretty special... we did the wild rice in our ensuite also but changed to the latte benchtops for the powder room and main bathroom just so that the ensuite was different and the feture tile I chose for the ensuite shower is this beutiful sparkly tile I hope should look good just to make it a bit prettier in there. Re: Taking forever DFH 19Aug 10, 2012 1:03 pm I bought a pendant that goes over the kitchen bench it's three white cylinders that hang down with a bit of a pattern we made them put a batten point above the bench my bedroom pendant is white with crystals hanging off it and I wanted a chandelier in the ensuite but where they put the light point looks pretty close to the shower and for me to change t will be yet another variation so I will see once its built I bought some pretty thee ones I have no idea where I'm putting them But I'm sure they will go anywhere! I just want to get the main one for over the dining table I actually saw one at bunnings that I loved so I might get that and then just wait until we move to sort out the rest. Re: Taking forever DFH 20Aug 10, 2012 1:34 pm I had a look at your bench colour on the site that's really nice, the cream splashback will look great, I think that bench is displayed at the Greenvale displays not sure which house it's next door to the Hartley The fastest thing a builder will do is bank your cheque, those systems work perfectly with lightning speed, everything else is slow burn. Just the way it is. 1 8855 Can someone please offer some advice? Im DESPERATE. Because I'm completely and utterly exhausted. How long are variations taking with other companies at the moment? We… 0 18821 Thanks. I called VBA today and they said it was a Consumer Affairs issue, the old handball. Seems like the government organisations don't want to do their job at the moment. 2 7626 |