We're getting a monument colour garage door too - hard to decide what colour to go for the driveway! We're also debating stencilcrete or similar, but that'd only be for…

My SS said they deliver the gyprock early (and put some upstairs) so they don't have to try to do it while the scaffold is up later. They will quite…

House is looking great! I wonder why they put my stone bench tops down before doing the painting etc, but left yours off? Though the fact you're getting Diamond kitchen…

So hasn't really been an update in a while, mainly because there's not been much to update! The painting is now complete. The main floor tile finally arrived last week,…

Thanks Rhetti! We can only claim part ownership of that vision though - the facade we'd chosen originally has the whole front rendered, but we liked the modified facade on…

Thanks!
Never too late to start a thread But it has been fun charting it from the start!
The Parkhill is a good design - actually there's…

Thanks!
Apparently that's just how it is... we'll see how it looks when it's finished - might be that we come back after and get some more tiling done...

It's called Stormy Skies... we love it, particularly the way it contrasts with the roof and gutters

Congratulations! House looks fantastic!

Interior - wall and wet area floor tiling is complete. Painting is set for this week
Kitchen

Upstairs powder room

Main bathroom

Main bathroom

Ensuite shower

Laundry

Laundry

Exterior - eaves, downpipes and render needs to be painted

Drama!
So we had our meeting with the tiler on 24 May - he'd already started on the bathroom floor tiles and was doing a great job. We checked all…

Coming along nicely! Not long til you get to see how the colours you've picked actually look!

I'd only be guessing, but maybe balcony houses tend to have a better kerb appeal? Though you can easily have a nice facade otherwise.
If I were looking at two…

So they say there is an allowance for breakages etc... but that sure is some allowance! Maybe our brickies were particularly careful?
Either way, we'll try to minimise waste and…

It also depends on the size and location of the balcony - I have one off the master bedroom currently, which looks out over bush land. It's not very big,…

Yeah they're overhang. The thought is maybe to get those soft close devices you can retrofit and do that after handover. We'll see. We don't have soft close at the…

That's always the risk you run... if he didn't want to have neighbours close, he shouldn't have built close the boundary. What a fool.
House is looking great though, and that…

Week 15 update:
Upstairs exterior has been completed - cladding, eaves and downpipes were fitted. Bricks were cleaned and exterior surfaces painted. Not sure when downstairs exterior will be finished, but…

Not a lot of things - some roughness on the edges that met the formwork, which I think all is now covered in brick anyway.. The rebate for the rear…

Update for this week:
We spent the morning at the block - there were 3.5 pallets of bricks surplus at the end... Seeing a purpose for them, we transported a couple…

Yeah they needed to clarify a couple of things with ours, as well as had some data entry issues with our tile. So it took from Saturday to Tuesday to…

Great selection!:-P
Yeah they are - at least at this stage! It's for all our downstairs including laundry and powder room 1. The upstairs wet areas have a charcoal tile instead.…

Ordinarily i'd say it could be the anticon insulation blanket like below... but the fact there's barely any of whatever it is has me puzzled. I can't see what purpose…

So a minor hiccup - the cabinet maker advised the laminate bench top we selected is only for cabinets, not bench tops... The result of this was that we had…

Looking good! Would I be right in saying that's the kitchen back wall/fridge recess into your WIP?
The waiting is a little frustrating hey, along with the flowchart not exactly being…

It's looking great - love your kitchen colours and layout!

My last house had Opticomm - the technician came after we'd moved in and made the connection. From memory all the prewire had already been done, just needed the equipment…

Bricks are all finished - so the next thing for the exterior will be the cladding
The stair case was installed on Friday or Saturday just gone. Next up is waterproofing…