Once you have settled in I'm sure you'll love your new place. You have obviously put a lot of time and thought (and money!) into making it a place…

Donuts - my dear old dad normally gets roped in for this kind of task but I think I will get in the experts this time. Whilst the…

Hi there,
I bought a full wall wallpaper style world map for my little son's new room from www.wallscenes.com.au
The colours are much nicer and brighter than…

Hi there,
We are getting vinyl flooring in our playroom of our new house - it's quite groovy looking (not a fake wood or fake tile pattern) and was not…

Ooooh I love the first one Michelle!
Who makes/distributes it?

Ha! We will definitely provide the photo's - just as "feedback" for them if nothing else.

Aaargh! I just typed a huge reply and it has disappeared.
Anyway....thank you so much for your replies.
We have spoken to the tiler again who reiterated how bad…

Thanks Paula. What should I be asking the building company to do? I can't imagine that they would agree to bear the cost of ripping up the tiles,…

Yes, newly built.
In fact, we haven't even received the keys yet (later this week) - the building company allowed our tiler to start early.
In hindsight I should have told the…

We are about to move into our lovely new home in Perth.
Our highly recommended tiler called me on the morning he was due to start laying our tiles (large…

Hello there,
We are just in the final stages of building our house but I was just commenting (complaining really) to someone this very day about this very issue!
The…

Hi Phoenix,
I'm a new poster but I have been following your build with interest because it has been travelling along at around about the same pace as my own new…

Bec - the veneer is Laminex Anegre 1/4 cut natural timber veneer.
Paula - thanks for the help with the photo's. That was our first attempt at Photobucket. The…

Hello,
The pictures of our upstand are at www.photobucket.com/annieal (hopefully).
Annie

Hello there,
Long time lurker, first time poster!
We're building in Perth, WA through a project builder and are around 6 weeks from handover.
One of our (many) variations…