22-07-08 Painting & Cabinets

It appears to have been a busy week last week!

Both of our new doors have finally been installed...



and with the Tri-lock.


The garage ceiling has been painted...


...and so has the window surround.


The painters have also laid some coats of paint on all the internal walls, ceiling and doors too! The paint colour for the walls is half strength Chalk Beige and the architraves and skirting will be the same colour but in gloss.



Here is the Family room...


and here are the doors all lined up like dominoes all painted.


This is a shot of the Master Bedroom.


It would appear also that after the PD quality inspection they have had to rectify a few items. The entry to the WIR has been ripped off and replaced with new edging.

The holes in the corridor walls have been patched.


The Master bedroom cornice has also been ripped off one of the walls too.



Our replacement cabinets have also been installed as well...here is the ensuite unit.


And here is the bathroom unit.



Hang on, Did he say 'Replacement' cabinets?

Yes, ALL of our cabinets have been replaced.

Late last year when we were looking at what options we wanted to include, we had budgeted to get the 2mm ABS edging applied to all of the cabinets as this is a more durable surface than the standard laminate edge. As we have this in our current kitchen, we can appreciate its value and appearance, and wanted to make sure we had it in our new home as well. When we went out to Hopetoun we were told that it was standard and would be included on all cabinets - we thought 'Yippee' - a small saving our way!

When the cabinets were installed two weeks ago, we noticed that they did not have the ABS edging as expected. Several disgruntled phone calls and emails later, PD have come to the party and honoured their word and replaced ALL of the cabinets with the ABS edging including all the doors, drawers and end panels.

I have included some pictures below of the before and after cabinets showing the difference. Suffice to say we are much happier now :-)

This is without the ABS edging.

And these are the new cabinets with the ABS edging.

If you want more info on ABS edging you may like to check out this link:

http://www.thelaminexgroup.com.au/pdf/AustProductFactsheets/LaminexABSEdging.pdf

6-7-08 Doors, Stairs, Shelves and Benchtops

Well its been a busy week in the house. The 'Fix' carpenter 'Steve' has been flat out installing stairs, fitting shelves, hanging door frames and doors, and installing the skirting and architraves.
The outside of the house hasn't really changed much apart from the front doors. One of the 'final' front doors has been installed, but I think he ran out of time before installing the second one.

On Friday morning I caught up with Steve and dropped off a Gainsborough 'Tri-lock' to replace the existing lock we had chosen for the front door. We were originally swaying to have a Tri-Lock as part of contract but the sales consultant at Hopetoun was not too savvy when it came to explaining the unit and we decided not to include it. Then later when we saw 'B&P's' comments we realised it would have the features we wanted so decided to ask 'F' if he could get it fitted for us which he kindly agreed to.

Shown below is one of the front doors fitted with the frosted glass to match the side lights.


The plasterers have finished the house and also included the Shower niches in both the Bathroom and ensuite.


The Plumber has also been back and rectified the issue with the washing machine taps. They have now been tucked inside the cabinet out of view. A bit of spak-filla over the hole and she'll be right mate! ;-)

Our stairs have now been installed and don't the kids love it! up and down, and up and down....

And here is a shot of the under-stairs storage area (AKA - the kids cubby)

Our balcony deck has been laid as well, and here we can see the cherubs conducting some stress testing. You'll also note how dusty they are? The place is a dust bowl - everything you touch has a layer of plaster dust on it.

As part of our variations we asked for the step height of the balcony deck to be raised up so that the cherubs wouldn't have to step off too deeply. You can see by the height in the picture below that the difference now is around 10mm or so - very happy with that.

All of the shelves have been added as well in all the cupboards, WIR and WIP as shown below.

And to our excitement so had our Quantum Quartz bench tops. The colour looks a little darker in this light but once all the paint is on and the place is cleaned up it should look beautiful. I have lifted off the protective chipboard for this shot.

Our kitchen sink has been dropped in place and the vanity units for the ensuite and B'room were both sitting in the family room waiting to be installed.

And finally here is the entrance to the rumpus room with the two doors added to minimise the sound. I may need to later update these to solid doors ;-)