Today is the day!!

In just a few hours we will be handed the keys to our brand new home!

I am excited, I am thrilled with how everything has come together and I am looking forward to getting in there and unpacking.

I will update my blog with more photos as we go but here is a teaser...


The kitchen...

Countdown is on!

2 weeks until handover...

Assuming all goes to plan.

I am quietly confident that everything will come together nicely, but I don't want to get my hopes up too high.

We have handed in our notice to our real estate agent, paid for our insurance and we received our final progress payment yesterday and that has been sent off to the bank.
Let's hope the bank gets its act together and processes it quickly and doesn't delay anything.

We had a sticky beak in the window yesterday, the tiler has been there tiling the main living area floor downstairs. It looks fantastic.

We have a walk through booked in for next Wednesday, so hopefully all the little things that need doing will be done or close to being done.

A few things left to do still;
- shower screens, wardrobe railings, shelving in pantry, mirrors
- fly screens and screen doors
- insulation in the roof requires spreading
- acid burnt bricks need replacing & a few bricks need fixing.
- timber screen to the front facade needs to be installed
- paint touch ups
- carpet
- tiling - a couple of tiles need to be done
- stair case needs to be stained
- site clean up
- internal clean

And then the obvious ones, all the installation of appliances etc on handover.

We are taking delivery of one of our lounges next Wednesday, not sure where we'll store that, but King couldn't deliver it once we were in because their warehouse is under renovation.

The DA for retaining walls should be through soon, we had to submit additional paperwork, so now we just wait!
That's our Christmas job, installed 900mm high retaining walls to the rear of our block and to the sides.

A walk through...

We had the opportunity to walk through the house today. I finally got to meet our lovely supervisor.
My husband has been meeting with our supervisor regularly and this is the first time I have been able to attend.

Handover is still looking like the 14th December.
Everything is booked in and going to plan.

Very happy with our colours, selections and most importantly extremely happy with our builder.
Our supervisor has worked hard to ensure everything is completed to the highest standard and has a fantastic eye for detail and picked up things we never would have seen.

Now to get all our paperwork sorted for the final payment. Last time we put through a payment the bank was painfully slow and took 3 weeks for them to send a valuer out to approve the payment.

Here are some photos;

Bedroom 2 - Martini Paint

Towel Rail - Main Bathroom

Main Bathroom

Looking from the front door

Feature Wall - Taubmans Stone Drab

 

Feature Wall - Taubmans Stone Drab

Upstairs Powder Room

 

 

Feature Niche - Ensuite

Towel Ring - Upstairs Powder Room

Vanity - Downstairs Powder Room

Bath - Main Bathroom

Good news

Another week down and another week of changes.

This week we have had painters over the weekend, garage door installed, gyprockers and carpenters finishing off things before the painters return to finish off, handles installed to all doors including my beautiful front door.

We spoke with our SS today and he expects handover on the 14th of December.
Everything is booked in up until that date.
Plumbing and Electrical fit off next week, bricklayers coming back next week to fix acid burnt bricks.
Carpet is booked in for the 27th.
Shower screens, mirrors and wardrobes were measured yesterday.

So not long now, I hope it all comes together. Cant wait to spend Christmas in our new home and spend our annual leave working on it.

Lets hope the bank plays nicely this time. The
valuer took 3 weeks last time which delayed our payment.

We are meeting the supervisor on site next week so I'll add more photos then.