Bench tops are in.

And I love them. 

I am very glad we ended up upgrading to the waterfall edges for the island bench. They look amazing. 

Powder room:

Main bath:

Ensuite:

Excuse the mess. Hubby was laying the floor heating. 

Kitchen and Vanities

Last Saturday (yes Saturday) our kitchen and vanities were installed. 

I am so happy with my kitchen. It is absolutely gorgeous with matt white polyurethane handleless doors. I cannot wait to see it completed with benchtops, splashback and appliances. 

The main bath and ensuite look great too. I wish we had upgraded the powder room from laminate but that 'budget' word reared its ugly head again. 

Ours stairs were also installed last Wednesday. 

They should look awesome with the bamboo and some staining. 

Today I ventured back to Don's tiles as our feature tile had been deleted. I ended up changing from feature tiles to a feature wall. I am using the tile from my kitchen splashback as the feature along one wall and around the corner spa with a grey floor tile and matt white tile on the other walls. I do love the cement look tile. (It looks a lot more grey in real life compared to the photo)

I got a big thumbs up from a lovely couple I met in the tile store who are also building the Masterton Villina. 

Roof, eaves, electrical, cladding and gyprock.

Wow, busy busy. 

Since my last post, they completed our roof, put on the external cladding and eaves and removed most of the scaffolding. 

I had big issues with my two horizontal windows off the upper lounge room. One was too high, and the other too low. 

After some discussion with our super site supervisor, he worked some Masterton magic and got the two windows replaced  with one big window. The old windows are out but the new one is not in yet. 

Daniel went in and ran all the cable for our power, lights, data, security and sound systems. There are cables everywhere. I am glad he knows what he is doing. 

Today the gyprock went on. I have only seen photos but it looks fantastic. 

Roof. 

Cladding and gorgeous sunset that sent Facebook into meltdown. 

A little cable

Wired up

Old windows = no view

Hole for new window

New view

Entry

Garage

Kitchen

'Great' room

Pantry

Study

Upper lounge (with my yet to be installed window)

Stairs

Getting closer : )

Bricks are done

Well it has been a while between posts and a lot of work has been done. 

Our bricks were started on 30/05. There were delays getting the scaffold up due to some rain but it finally went up and the bricks were finished on 16/06. 

The roof trusses were completed on 19/06 and the gutters and facia went on Wednesday. 

Our bricks were going to be cleaned last Friday. That has still not been done. 

The roof tiles were delivered yesterday and they started putting on the sarking this morning. By this afternoon the main roof tiles were all done. The lower levels of the roof will not be able to be done until the scaffold comes down. 

Daniel is hoping that he can get the electrical rough in done while he is on holidays from his teaching position. Looks like he will be able to get in and get that done now. I hope he realises how fussy I am as a client. 

Here are some photos of the brick progress. 

And with the gutters up...

And our roof being prepared and tiled...

Brickwork

We have been so impressed by the speed of our build. Everyday there is something happening. Even Monday, there were people on site working in the rain. 

Last Friday, 30/05/14, they started our bricks. My husband had seen that they were delivered the day before and I pulled in to check them out only to find about 8 brickies there. 

Since then, our brickwork gas gotten higher everyday. 

I suspect after today's efforts, they will need scaffold before they can go any higher. 

We were a bit disappointed when we realised that our bricks were exactly the same as next door. However, they have different mortar (they have white, we have off white) which makes them look different. I think our bricks look great. 

Can you believe after agonising over our bricks and changing our minds so many times, we got the same bricks. 

Level up!

The second story frames started today. The ground floor looks bigger with a roof on it. No photos as I was there after work. I am really looking forward to seeing what tomorrow will bring.

Power up

Everything has now been delivered to complete our second level frames. It will all start going up from tomorrow. 

Yesterday my husband went out with a fantastic mate and ran the mains power to the house. 28 meters of trench. Very glad his mate brought his digger along.