Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Day 14



Friday we did have some progress with the waffle slab put in. The slab due to be poured today ( tuesday 15th ) and looked like they were mostly ready to go.
Hopefully have a slab of concrete to view tonight.

Will try and get some photos downloaded and up tomorrow!

Friday, June 11, 2010

Day 10 Build




Well Day 10! Today Friday 11th June.
Nothing seems to have been done in the last few days- however weather terrible.
Mark received a call yesterday from SS to say slab pour is going to be Tuesday the 15th. Won't hold them to that as not looking good.

Pleasent surprise when we got to the block tonight and the waffle slab had actually been done today.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Inspiration and Furniture


Some inspiration pictures for the house. Light fitting that I am going to get for the stairwell. We have put in a very large and wide wood feature window in the stairwell so this light fitting hanging down will look fantastic from inside and outside. Love both of these, very similar and about the same price. White one from Space in Melbourne.





Other photos just ideas and styling that i like. Hopefully can achieve similar look and feel in the living and study.




Day 8-9 Build




Went by the block late last night and all pipes are complete, electrical box in and the floor layout has been cut ready to be boxed up for the slab. We got a clear picture of where the house is now sitting on the block which is nice. Happy with the space and the backyard doesn't seem to feel to small. We are sitting a few meters back from our neighbor which might end up being a positive and gives us more room at the front.
As Melbourne is experiencing a day of full rain I don't expect anything will be done today.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Photos reference



Found these photos in files so thought would add to the blog... for reference and so i can find later down the track.
Front of house is similar to the colours layout we have chosen , weatherboard in light colour, balcony in wire and bottom in darker colour. Windows will all be stained as this also.
We plan on decking the front of our home and using a light coloured driveway.

Kitchen shows how our bench will work, cabinets, window at the back and cabinets above. Our fridge and pantry are in the exact same position as this photo. Colours not the same.

Friday, June 4, 2010

Colour Selections


Here are the colours for the exterior - the whole house will be rendered after handover as we dislike brick (and options for nice ones at Metricon were way to expensive and cheaper to render the whole house!) cladding will be painted and the roof is colourbond.
I have also put the kitchen colours in, the burnished wood laminex is a similar colour to all the stained windows. We upgraded all windows (except bedrooms) to wood windows and enlarged most of them to the biggest we could.

Picture on the site




Just a quick note: Picture above is the Metricon Display. Our house will be similar but our colours are very different and we haven't got the glass at the front.( metricon charge a fortune for that!) We have a combination of dark grey, light grey and charcoal stained wood on all windows. Put in a pic of our floor plan as it is had a number of changes.

Day 4 of Build - Pipes and Electrical box

We went by early morning to see the progress and plumbers already started with digging the holes for the pipes. We plan on putting a pool into the backyard and checked to make sure they were not putting the lines right through the centre of the backyard! we asked Metricon many times to note this on the plans and finally it was done, but always worth double checking.
Photos to come!

Day 2- A little progress


Day 2 - Tuesday 1st June 2010
Gravel delivered- on this day i also cleaned up some rubbish that had been dumped by other builders! The site is now nice and clean. We also got the lovely porta loo and cage delivered.

Construction Started!


Day 1 - Construction Monday 31st May 2010
Finally after many months to get to this stage we are finally at construction. Day 1 monday 31st May 2010 was the official start date with metricon and site scrape complete.
We also painted the fence before metricon took over the site. We plan to paint it a darker colour after handover.