28 Feb 2018

Stuff We Missed

I'm sure this post is going to have a part 2 and 3 as we continue on this build journey. Since my previous post, the following has happened:

Cabinetry has commenced installation



And doors to most rooms too


So now that the rooms are starting to take shape we've realised we with missed, or not thought of some things about our home such as:

1. Floor drain in the laundry
We actually picked this up during the frame stage. We noticed there was no hole in the ground in the laundry room. After looking through our plans, it seems this got missed. I guess we assumed all wet areas automatically get a drain, and I have a feeling it was in the original plans, but because we relocated the laundry no one raised that it was missing from the plans. 

Hopefully, it won't be an issue, only if the room ever floods. We've had rain last week and this is what the room may look like if it floods. Inspector deemed waterproofing satisfactory so that's good to hear.

2. Not double-checking measurements
I mean we're already realising some of our rooms aren't as big in real life as it is on paper. I strongly recommend pulling out a measuring tape to help you visualise the size of rooms during the planning stage. Measure it up against your current spaces so you'll get an idea of whether the rooms in your new home is really that big (or small). One thing we didn't measure was the depth of cabinetry. Now that we can start to see our kitchen, we're noticing the top shelf isn't that ... deep. When we looked back on our plans it's been specified to be 80mm. I don't think that's very deep at all. So again pull out a measuring tape and compare your plans against same items in your current home. 

Hopefully, more work happens this weekend and we'll try and have another sneak peak. 

21 Feb 2018

Stairs Are Up!

Finally I can see what the rooms upstairs look like.

Our rumpus/kids retreat area.  We plan to install some tables across that back wall you can see. So the boys can do their homework at one location outside their bedrooms where I can help them. The aim is so they can't have any electronic devices in their room, especially when they're teenagers, well that's the plan anyway.

Hallway looking in from the front of the house. Straight ahead it's the master bedroom. The first left is the shower and bathroom, and the second left is the 3rd bedroom.

This is one of the front bedrooms. This room will most likely be Eli's room.

The second front bedroom. This most likely be Kai's room.

The separate upstairs toilet.  Next to that is a linen closet, Eli's bedroom and Kai's bedroom.

Upstairs bathroom. As you can see waterproofing is done so assuming tiling will start shortly.

Third bedroom for guests.

The master bedroom. I'm now worried there's not enough natural light in the room.

Our ensuite. The toilet will be behind the green wall you can see.

I'm surprised they aren't finished installing our walls. They've been at it since they returned from the Christmas break.

Our garage is also starting to take shape now that there are walls.

During our site walk-through last week, our site manager said kitchen cabinetry will be installed this week and exterior should be completed too.

I'm so excited to see our home finally coming together. I really want to move in already. I now see why people get cranky when builders extend completion or handover dates. 

11 Feb 2018

Construction Update - February 2018

Today we visited our home. It's been about two weeks since we've gone inside. I'll drive past our home every 3-4 days, but there's always tradies onsite when I go past, so I can't sneakily go inside. 

When I first walked through the unlocked gates I noticed our presto cornice was on site. This cornice wasn't available with our builder's standard range and but was available from their supplier, so we were allowed to place a custom order for this cornice type. As plain as it looks, this was considered not standard. It'll be installed mostly in the rooms upstairs. We'll be doing the square set in most of the rooms downstairs.

All the gyprock walls are up! The rooms are starting to take shape. The front room is now looking like a decent size for hubby and I's office space. 
The laundry room has also turned out to be a lot bigger than I initially thought, now the walls are up. Everything else, I'm still doubting whether it's big enough 😜.

Sitting area. We're not sure what we're going to do with this space but it'll have a couch of some sort so you can sit down. 

Where our kitchen oven and stove top will be. The poles and wiring you see on the floor is for the sink, dishwasher and microwave that will be on our kitchen island table. The room you see in the photo will be the pantry, and the hole next to that is the cavity for the fridge.

When you walk inside our pantry, to the left will be storage space under our stairs. This is what it looks like at the moment. 


Can't wait until the stairs are put in so we can have a look upstairs. Hopefully, it's done by Friday as we've requested for our first walkthrough of our home then. Construction walkthroughs can only be done on a weekday, and I refuse to go by myself with both the boys with me.

View from the backyard. The scaffolding that our builder probably owns, (because they need it and a lot of it) but charge clients who build two-story homes for. This type of unnecessary cost that you know the builder is just charging for the sake of charging customers just blows my mind. 
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