Coming along nicely....

It has been a while since my last post, so much has happened since then! Everything seems to be flowing along nicely. The weather at the moment is a little bit on the shitty side, however the rain has held off enough that they are still able to work. The Bricklayer's started yesterday, hopefully the rain will stay away long enough for them to finish, and for the roof to be put on.
I am amazed at how much they have managed to get done in just over a month! 
We met up with our site supervisor Wayne yesterday, he seems like a top bloke! Wayne explained everything to us, showed us around and put my mind at ease over the whole process of us getting our timber floors laid, although we are still unsure as to whether the floor is being laid before the kitchen or after, I am pretty sure he said that the tiles in the wet areas are done before the timber floors, so that way we can have the timber at the same height as the tiles (No NASTY step to stub my toe on), I will confirm when we do our next walk through. The timber floors are laid after the gyprock has been done, and then McDonald Jones finish off the architraves and door jambs, and we will get them polished after we receive the KEYS........ Not long now, they say mid January, I say March...I like to allow for delays :) I try not to think too much about it as even though 7 months could fly like that, it could very well be the longest 7 months of my life (well other than being pregnant).
So enough of the boring stuff here are some photo's

The waffle pods

more pods

The Slab

We have been framed

More Frame

The view from the kitchen

Theatre room

The Bath

A Bedroom Window

Toilet

Ensuite

Bricks have started

Kitchen

Laundry

Side of house

almost done

Bricks finished, guttering done

roof

The Roof ( LOVE IT)

Garage (We have Gyprock)

Theatre Room

The side of the house

Alfresco

Bath 

The walls came tumbling down

Well after months of getting things sorted, we are finally getting things started. All our trees were removed last weekend and the demolition team turned up on monday. Unfortunately bad weather meant that no work was done on Thursday and Friday, but the forecast for the rest of the week looks good, so hopefully all will be done by the end of the week and ready to start construction.

before with trees

After trees are cut down

Day 2 of demolition

I thought that maybe seeing the house being pulled to pieces would upset me, seeing we raised our babies here...However I am so glad to see the mould ridden, freezing cold/stinking hot cramped house go. 

Time to move

We have decided it is time to move, Council should be all done within the next few weeks and we really need this time to pack up and get out!
We found a place on Friday and get the keys next week, I am feeling so overwhelmed by how much I have to do. I started packing months ago however this house is so small I had to stop at some point as I had no where to put boxes without feeling like I was living in the middle of a lego building. At least the house we are moving to is big enough to store the stuff we don't need as well as live comfortably.

A council clean up or 2 will be required as well as a skip bin, I AM FREAKING OUT HERE!

This how it feels right now

Pre-finished Solid Timber V's Un-Finished solid timber

Right from the start we have always wanted solid timber floors, I am not a fan of tiles and I have never really liked carpet that much either.

So when faced with the question would you like Pre-finished solid timber my head started spinning! I had never heard of it, I just assumed that you could only buy the raw timber and get it sanded and polished onsite.

Obviously we have got quotes and it is a good price however is it as good a product? I don't know I can't find any arguments through google that say its completely awful or better than the traditional method. from what I can gather the only thing different is the beveled edges and the fact it is sanded and polished in a factory, and it's not enough to sway me one way or the other.

We are off to research some more today by visiting several more flooring places and hopefully we will have a clear cut decision sometime soon.


Here are a couple of photo's that I found

Pre-finished spotted gum solid timber

Solid timber spotted gum raw and polished onsite

Bricks means tricks!

Go and choose a brick, they say! Pick the brick and choose the rest after, they say!
Easier said than done I SAY!!!

Pretty much spent the entire day looking at bricks and houses built in the bricks that we like or at least we thought that we did!
So we liked 4 bricks ok thats easy NOT!

Once these suckers are put together as a building they look completely different. Some of the house's we looked at today depending on how the rest of the colour scheme was put together would enhance that baby poo colour in the brick or the brick went from what I thought was brown to red it has left me spinning in confusion.

It is not just the brick but the colours you put with it as well …my anxiety levels are at an all time high!

The way I look at it, stuff up the colour in the kitchen or the tiles in your bathroom and eventually these can be changed.As for the Bricks you are stuck with those F@#%ers for life and driving up my driveway and looking at them for the next 20 years or so and hating them is not the required outcome that I wish to achieve!

So back to the drawing board and back to Austral bricks to re-research our choice in bricks!

Colours

We have our deposit variation, we want to make a few small changes one being the air conditioner and the other the glass to our bedroom we would like double glazed there even though our neighbour is rather quite I would still prefer to have it! Hopefully wont be a problem to make any necessary changes!

Our colour walk through will be in 2 weeks so I best get myself organised about what colours we would prefer and a trip to austral bricks will be required as well.....Busy Times

I am liking this sofa bed for the kids area...just getting ahead of myself and having a little dream of some furniture I would like :)

and the Spotted Gum timber floors that I would like.

 I LOVE THEM!

Our first brick

Today we made first payment to go ahead...Eek excited and terrified at the same time, we were given a nice shiny box (or as she called it our first brick) and folder to keep all our stuff in lol. I am now scared that this is all happening to fast or not fast enough, so many things to organise, the loan being one of them and then there is the removal of the trees and the house, clearing of the land omg and I think we need to have a landscape plan??? no idea what we will do there!

FEELING OVERWHELMED, EXCITED, HAPPY.....THIRSTY, a nice cold glass of Jansz to celebrate me thinks :)