Work currently under way and/or completed includes:
- Scaffolding removed
- Some doors have been hung and work is beginning on frames/architraves as well
- Kitchen and bathroom/laundry cabinets delivered and some installed
- Bathrooms waterproofed (don't know if this finished)
- Gyprock sanded
We spent a reasonable amount of money upgrading the kitchen. There are silly little costs that you don't find out until the kitchen appointment e.g., it costs to have two colours to cabinets, two different coloured benchtops, bulkhead above the rangehood. Some of the customisations include:
- Poly cupboards/drawers
- Extra pot drawers
- Soft close mechanisms
- Additional cabinets across the face of the sink part of the island bench
- Fitout of butlers pantry
- Window in butlers pantry
- Some cabinets we selected Laminex Burnished Wood in Nuance finish (it has a woodgrain texture)
- 40mm Caesarstone with a 70mm feature island bench (Osprey for most with Raven on the feature)
- Additional cabinet in feature island (the Majestic display wastes this storage space)
I've been following other people's building blogs for a long, long, long time and it feels surreal that we're finally at the stage where we nearly have a brand new house. We're almost ready to sell our existing house, and to be honest, it's pretty sad. mrskidsbuggingme, the two bugging kids and I will miss this place.
Hopefully I'll have another update later this week. In the meantime, here's some progress shots.
There is a lot of external painting to do:
Upstairs hallway with feature doors to upper lounge:
Kitchen partially completed:
Pantry doors (hard to see in photo, but really nice finish/texture in person):
Powder room waterproofing:
Wow! It's coming along nicely. Love the colours you've picked for the kitchen/cabinets.
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