Orders, orders, orders

I think the lighting is all sorted and I have organized delivery of the lights ready for the 1stApril. Our ss has indicated that these will be installed the following week. So at least I will have them in on time, I hope.

We have also ordered the sofa for our theatre room. The decision process also took several weekends and lots of visits to furniture stores and home maker centres.  I have short legs and I am short, my partner is the opposite so what was comfortable for me, wasnt always comfortable for him. It also took a lot of looking to decide on the style, originally we were looking at recliner home theatre modular settings  but because of the size of this room we eventually decided on 2x three seaters that reclined witha matching ottoman.

We found the perfect sofa at sofas 2 go. The Monaco. It is leather but choosing a colour from their extensive range was challenging. In the end sofas 2go let me borrow some leather swatches and I went to DIlorenzo and looked at our carpet selection to assist in the decision making process. I would have preferred taking the carpet sample to the sofa place but DIlorenzo weren't agreeable. We ordered the chocolate leather. This was J's original choice but I thought it may have been too dark, however, the other colours would have made the room too brown, or the colour too close to our carpet colour. I will just have to think of what accent colour I will add to this room now. Lol The  lounge willbe ready in 12-14 weeks, can't believe we willbe in our house then.

This is the Monarco with the chaise, just imagine it without and in chocolate...

I have lay byed towels for the ensuite, sheets and mattress protectors for our new kind size bed. Ordered a quilt cover in King size and a woolen insert, hopefully I will be able to pick those up this weekend.

Abbey blinds will be out during the week to measure for our blinds, and we have paid them the 50% deposit required for them to start.

I am excited about moving in, but feeling very overwhelmed thinking about packing up my current house. Busy times ahead!

Bathroom and outdoor lighting selections

I have spent many hours on many weekends choosing the lights for our home, as well as the lights in the previous post, we will have some DIY lights for the wardrobe, toilet, laundry and hall near the other bedrooms, unfortunately I didn't get a photo of those.

For our bathrooms, the standard fitting from EB is a 3 in 1 heater light, I find this doesn't give good light for putting on makeup and have ordered some mirror lights.

For our ensuite as our mirror is the full width as our double basin. This is longer than the next light fitting for our main bath.

Below is similar to the standard in the bathrooms.

For outdoor, I choose a sensor light to go in the corner of the garage, I hope it will light up the driveway and also the bin area. I choosecream because it will go up on the eaves.

In our alfresco these will be mounted on the walls either side of our stacker door.

To go on either side of our entrance on the pillars, I selected...

And for the ceiling of the front door and alfresco...

Behind the scenes

In preparation for moving in, we have ordered the lights from Beacon lighting. I posted styles in my earlier posts for internal. We have the 4 pendant lamps for over our bench in the kitchen, as well as downlights, and under bench lighting. I am hoping that the kitchen will be well lit.

 For the meals, living and family room, I choose this...

 In our rumpus / theatre room  we are getting dimmable downlights.

For beds 2,3,4 and kids room...

The Evo Fanaway

And in our master bedroom this...

The multi room is have a pendant like this...

In the entry we will be having a large round pendant like this...

All happening on the inside

The last few weeks have been slightly frustrating. I know work has been carried out, but it's all happened inside. We had an inspection with our Ss last Friday and got to see the work first hand, all air con ducting has gone in, aerial and data points, powerpoints too. They have marked the slab where the air con vents will go. The cavity slider is in.

On the outside they have had a massive clean up, bricks cleaned and the eaves are up.

Work as completed the 20/02/2013

Today when I drove past, I noticed the insulation is in the process of being installed and our gyprock has arrived... NO rain please!

House as of 26/02/2013

The best gift of all

I love our house. Whilst its just bricks, roof tiles and timber frames at present, a lifetime of memories will be made under its roof that are priceless. I am sooo excited tonight as I see it taking shape as our future home.

Our SS emailed tonight informing us of tentative dates... We have lockup inspection next Wednesday/ Thursday and he anticipates overall handover the 14th May... Wow!!

My mum gets to go out during the day and speaks to the tradies, the electricians were there most of today... But when I get there after work, the gates are locked and I can't see beyond the fence... Here are some of the brickwork... Looking good!

Love the front facade! Can't wait to see the driveway, front door and entry lights!

Nearly bricked up....

Have had a very busy week at work... I have still managed to drive out to the block though every night except I haven't had time to post.

I am thinking the bricks stage might be finished Friday, if not they will definitely be finished early next week.. They just have to do the window ledges on three of the sides and finish the front, plus pillars for the entry and alfresco...

I think it is looking good... They have also placed the gas, rainwater for the toilets and laundry, and hot water for the whole house... They have cut out the space for the bath in the main bathroom too. Been very busy builders this week.

The back of the house.

The side of the house... Most of that wall is garage.

View of the front through the fence... Sorry it's the best pic I can take at the moment.

The alfresco and other side of the house...

It's definitely taking shape!

Brick by brick...

Thank goodness for some sunshine today, this meant the brickies could start... Can't believe how much they got done in one day... I was just expecting a couple of rows.