Our new home

Friday, 21 March 2014

Bricks .......day 5!

Wow, our home looks lovely. Here are some pics after the brickies were there today, on a Saturday! They are expected to be completed on Monday!

This the front with the pier that is being fixed. My SS informs me that it's called toothing out.

The left side of the house

The back, terrazza area. There is still a brick pier to be built in the back corner.

The right side of the house.

The back of the house, two of the bedrooms.

A close up of the two bricks that are being replaced, hopefully, straight this time.

A wider shot of the front. And all the broken bricks that will be taken away in the clean up.

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Reselecting carpet!

Last week I got a call to book an appointment to reselect our carpet. I was quite happy about that as I was disappointed with the old choice! Here is the old choice

And here is the better option, which was not available as our first choice. It's called Enforcer - Dark Ash.

It's a much nicer colour match. Hopefully it will match our paint colour too.

There are three tradies onsite today. They suggested they will be done early next week, weather permitting.......Yesterday I spoke with T, our site supervisor. The brickies told him to order the rest of the bricks! He is hoping to get the other rough ins done end of next week!

Here is progress at lunchtime today

Poor photo, but I love it. It looks exactly how we imagined. I love the brick colour.

I asked about putting lights on our front brick piers and they said there should be enough room to get the cables down!

Monday, 17 March 2014

Bricks.......

Wow, the bricks have started today, I love them. The colour is austral Urban One Silver.

From across the road I could see that all the bricks had been separated and spread around the house!

And from right out the front I could see six layers, I think they call them courses, on our side of the bedroom wall...... And the granitguard which is termite control, has already been put down, all before 12oclock.

I'm super excited to see the home come together form here! Are you following? Leave me a message, have you built? Are you building? Tell me about you?

So we went back after school pick up and they have progressed!

I love it!

Thursday, 13 March 2014

Selecting a high school

So we have a busy life and building a house is not the only thing we are doing. Besides one daughter dancing four days a week. I have another daughter who dances one day a week, plays and trains for soccer two days a week and surfs another day a week! I also have a sixteen month old son. And our eldest daughter will be making the big transition to high school next year. We have been going on school tours and information sessions and we have selected the school that would suit her needs. Now we wait for the interview and hope to get in. I'm glad that I have the house building to keep me preoccupied......

Waiting for bricks to go up

Ok, so really we are not waiting long but today our bricks and everything that is needed to for them are all onsite waiting for the brickies to finish a job at Tullimbar. It keeps raining on them out there and we are getting nothing at the Rail! And every time it rains our bricks get delayed another day!
I was onsite yesterday with our supervisor and inside the house is very dark! We had planned to put a skylight in the laundry but we will be needing one in the living area too. So we are arranging for that to happen, before the walls go up, thanks to our supervisor for that suggestion!

Some pics of bricks and sand! Because I love pics.....