Hey Jochicho, thanks for the compliments. My wife and I are totally in love with our kitchen and it isn't even finished yet! It's nice to share and get other…

Our benchtop finally went in last week. Essastone Basmati for those of you playing at home. The tiled splashback went in this morning but I won't see it until later…

Hey Kelly, yeah there are holes for the handles on the pot drawers below the benches but the overhead cupboards are all handle-less. There are handle-less cupboards above and below…

40mm Essa Stone Basmati. Sort of white with a chunky salt-like grain through it. We are going to the site on Sunday so it may have been installed. We can't…

Hi Macy, I have linked the images again and they seem to work now, don't know why they disappeared before. Thanks for looking at our blog, it's so much fun…

Thanks for your kind compliments, we are happy right now. Now we just want to see it all come together!
Our island bench is about 2850mm wide, 900mm deep and the…

Haze, I'm just seeing three squares with question marks. Like

If you're talking about my kitchen (directly above) my wife and I selected everything ourselves. We designed the kitchen as well, it is a custom build so we actually designed…

Congrats it looks great! Our kitchen has gone in this week as well, it's such an exciting moment. Finally a room in the house that looks almost finished. Still a…

In our old place we had a gap about that size either side of the fridge and it wasn't noticeably bad. Where we are currently the gap is much bigger…

Our kitchen has gone in this week. We just need some handles for the lower pot drawers and cupboards and then our Essa Stone Basmati benchtops. We love it already!
For…

All the best for the build Fabes. That's a great sized block.

Hey Big T
We wanted a raked finish on our exposed bricks anyway so it was fine. We have however noticed a strange green tinge which the brickies said will clean…

Sorry Big T I just saw this question. To be brutally honest we had no size issues and our builder certainly didn't warn us against such an issue. If you…

Hey I'm not a 'her' I'm just a guy with great taste
Alulei, your monument fascias/gutters should look good. We have a monument…

Yeah I think they look great up. They lose they brown/redish tinge that is noticeable when they sit on the pallet. Ours in the picture look a bit dark as…

Hi LJ, we are using PGH in SA so we don't have quite the range you have access to, however we are using Oyster as well and I have attached…

Hey gT, we are looking at the same vacuum unit as you, by the sounds of it from the same shop too. We went in today to look at it…

Here are our lovely PGH Oyster's.
First bricking finally done today and we are very happy. Quality of the brickies work is excellent to this stage.

You may be interested to know that the Colorbond website has some interesting features.
This shows the ads and brochures featuring different colours.
http://www.colorbond.com/index.cfm?objectid=FF97D12A-C23D-69B5-53600FF4F7DFC3AD
They also have a cool online colour visualiser.…

Hi there we have started a blog on our build. We are building with Rossdale Homes and it is a custom build.
If you could add our blog to the list…