Our Little Pisces

Saturday, February 6, 2010

It's now GO! GO! GO!

OMG! I have to start packing!!! Looks like we will be getting the keys a month earlier than expected! wow! and arghhhhhh! We have to start rushing to get everything sorted now. We have most of the items delivered and installed in the house already. Had a bit of a hiccup with the gas connection. I needed to create a new account with Alinta gas. Since I only manage to get that sorted on Thursday 4/2/2010, they said i will get connection on the 4/3/2010. However if the house gets completed earlier, then we can request for the gas connection to be done in a hurry. ;p exciting!!! So next tuesday I will give them a call and tell them the house will be ready in one week!!!! ahhhhh! so many things to do! I have to pack so many things! should have listened to mom and got some done when she was here! :( Anyways thats ok. :)

Here is the frontage of our new home! luuvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv it!!!! both of us just love it!!!!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Other Updates

We received our Linen Sliding doors and the downpipes for the front of the house has been fitted. Also I have posted a pic of the laundry ;p

downpipes...

Linen cupboard...

Laundry....

The Kitchen Dilema

The kitchen :) Where the Heart is. :) We will be having a red metallic splash back for the kitchen and lights under the overhead cupboards. Also we will be changing our doors to Polytec ones at a later stage. I like the glossy look ;p The builder wanted $6800 for that! so we thought we better wait and have them ordered separately and fitted in. That should save us heaps!

The corian bench is not what we thought we had asked for. We looked through the design and realised its our fault that we did not pick up 2 different terms being used for 2 ends of the island bench. We wanted a waterfall edge on 2 sides of the bench. instead the gave us one side 'corian slab' and another 'corian back'. Seems unfair how are we suppose to know the 'terms' used? We told our sales guy we wanted a waterfall drop. But hey how can we prove that? theres nothing but the design to look at :( but no worries! we will be getting someone to come in pull out the corian back and join it with the bench top to give us the waterfall look we are after! No point stressing too much. Just extra costs :(

One sided waterfall edge (Corian slab)

Love my tiles but not laid evenly??

It was so disappointing to see my beautiful tiles not laid the way we were expecting it to be laid. Its not even. even the grout distance is shocking to me. I was so excited about it but here it is! We have a meeting with the SS on Friday, hopefully we can highlight this and they might do something for us. he said that she is an experienced tiler but looking at the work...am not too sure. The main bath was done really nicely and you cant really notice because its 200x200 ceramic tiles. but with the 300x300 in the ensuite, an experienced tiler should have been called. here are the pics, you can clearly see that it is not even. I am not sure if i could hurt myself as the corners are sharp. Am I asking for too much?? When I had my meeting with the tiler, I asked her to mitre the tiles and she said no, she can't do it and that we have to order the tiles mitred. So i thought fine. But then everyone I speak to says thats crap and she should have the tools to mitre the tiles :( Anyways lesson learnt, i need to make sure this is all documented during pre-start!

see the tile ? this can be found in a few places...

Isn't the distance between the tile too far? Even the distance between the grout and tile for all sides are different...did she use a spacer? am not too sure?

I paid extra labour cost because it is more difficult to lay porcealin.....

Crooked .....

Saturday, January 23, 2010

We've got tiles!!!

We had a meeting with the tiler on Thursday morning to explain the design we wanted for the ensuite and the main bath. Everything went well. On Thursday evening we had a look at her work and we were happy. :) however on Friday, she had done the hob for the ensuite shower and it doesnt seem right? the hob seems to be tilted. Not sure if this is suppose to be but it doesn't look right. Not too happy about it. The tiles for the main bath turned out great! :)) Here are some photos.