The Dynamic Duo have done all the architraves, hung all the internal doors and done most of the skirting. I only had their services by default - they were supposed to be doing the trusses on my niece Kylie's house but it was too wet to get the truck onto her block (yes, it's a real H family thing with this builder lol - he is building 4 of our houses at the moment). However they got most of the work done so the cabinetmaker can do his thing. The fibro/gyprock/whatever it is has been delivered for the eaves and Al's ceiling. The delivery truck got bogged and took out the yellow-tipped white post that marks my corner :(
I also had Paul the Painter turn up and start puttying nail holes. He will be spraying the internal walls next week and I have until Wednesday to choose what colour of off-white I want. Who would have believed that WHITE could have so many shades !! The ceiling will be Builder's White - the white you have when you aren't having white. I have no idea on the walls yet but my journey to find a white did produce a good result in other spheres.
Despite having the flu at the moment (aaaaawwwwwwww) I ventured out on Friday to hunt for Whites. And what a charming picture I was; dripping with sweat and red-faced with fever lol. On the way back from the paint shop, I stopped to get more laminex samples from Barrys ( a girl can never have too many samples) and next door was a Clive Anthonys electrical store. Went in to check out rangehoods and ooo! the de Longhi one was $899, down from $1249, as they are end of line. Had a think at home about it, then Zoe and I went to the local CA store to buy one. The salesman told me they had a cancelled builder's order for those rangehoods in their warehouse and I could have one for $699 if I wanted. He had to ask???? So it is now tucked safely up in the dining room walkway for everyone to trip over for the next month or so :) Clive Anthonys are definitely on my list of People I Like during this build - the local store happily put my order for the stove, dishwasher and fridge on hold, until I need it (which will be soon!) and they gave me good prices for all of it.
I met up with the cabinetmaker later that day and now I can't change my mind any more over colours. Just bite my nails and hope it all looks ok. It is sooooooooo hard to match all this stuff up from teensy chips. The bathrooms are the same as I described earlier. I have really only used 4 colours overall:
Main bathroom and powder - Pumice cupboards and Roman Marble (gloss) benchtop
En suite - Burnished Wood cabinet and Pearl Grey benchtop
Laundry - Burnished Wood on the bottom cupboard and Pumice on the benchtop and wall cupboards.
and finally!! the kitchen - Burnished Wood cabinets and Caesarstone Ice Snow benchtops. The CS colour isn't showing well on my monitor; it's a whitish colour with flecks of greys and pale browns.
I will decide on the glass colour after it's installed.
We were woken by the roar of the wind and rain in the storms on Wednesday night at 2am. I haven't seen rain that heavy in a long long time. Next morning, my new house had a moat again - up two bricks high. There are 3 courses to floor level. Phew! It will be better once the storm water is installed properly. But there were no leaks anywhere inside :)So that is this week's update. Stay tuned for the next episode of The House of Jan - same bat channel, same bat time, same bats :)
