The frame completed

The frame was completed yesterday.  I showed up while a couple of the crew were there and he told me they finished the frame, would come back on Monday to clean up and then nothing would happen next week as the framing inspector will have to certify the frame.  Then the following week will be windows, guttering, ect. Hopefully we'll soon see a roof tile delivery and can't wait to see what the bricks are going to look like as I only chose the brick off the sample, it was in my opinion the best one in the standard range.   Some of the guttering and facias was on site and I am super happy with the combination of the monument and surfmist!!  It's going to look GREAT!

On Cloud Nine...it's just a frame :P

Sooo excited!  I came down the street yesterday to see wood sticking up from our block and my heart skipped a beat, haha!  I wanted to get out of the car and jump up and down and say thank you, thank you for finally starting my house.  But I didn't...I mean they just started the framework yesterday, who am I to distract them from their hard work.  So, I took the kids for a walk this morning...living 2km from our block is horrible because I want to go over there ALL the time!  No one was on site when we got there...maybe because of all the rain we had overnight but it isn't raining at all now.  I couldn't stay long because there were nails everywhere and very dangerous for the kids to be running around.  I clicked a few photos, whilst a man from Energex pulled up and started doing some work, we exchanged a few words but I didn't ask him exactly what he was doing.

I did a quick walk through and I can now imagine all the rooms and their sizes, where all the windows and door will be. YAY!  I also realized that we are not done with our retaining...really to make the parts of yard we do have usable we're going to have to cut a little, fill and retain a little more...sigh.

Here's the proof...

The front door

The garage

The alfresco with sliding doors on both sides

Looking from the back, figuring out how we will use this odd yard space.  Ours is basically what is the dirt and the grass is the boundry line.

And our other yard space, will have to cut all that out to the left side to make flat and useable

A Big Slaberoo!

There it is, the start of a home :)  Happy Birthday Ryan <3

I am a total block stalker, did a drive by this morning to see the frames being delivered!!  So exciting it's finally happening.  Nevermind the small yard and things I forgot or didn't think to add to the house and my uncertainty of about every color selection choice I made.  I am just happy to get started and see our plans come to life.

Timber Retaining Walls, Slab on Monday!

I finally have something worth blogging about!  Whoot, whoot...some big ol walls all over my block!

This is where my garden will grow!

The hill behind our block belong to a church and the recently planted trees, so it should be a nice backdrop once they start growing, on the other side of the hill is a big open field.

Site works getting ready for a big slab come Monday!  And can I just say that the house on the left, the land was sold the same time we bought our block (I know because I was interesting in it!) and look at how far along it is!!

Can't wait to see more progress!  Bring on the sunny Queensland days!

The final siting...3rd time is a charm?

This is how our house will sit on our block.  It is not the best use of space in my opinion but we wanted this particular house more than a backyard and had trouble siting it the way we wanted for various reasons.  The problematic retaining wall is the very front tier, in the original plan the two tiers are perfectly parrell.  I am planning some nice looking garden in that space above the first retaining wall. It will give us some sort of depth considering the front of the house is flat with no portico for an enterance.

Trying to stay postive!

The retaining wall crew went in and got to work and realized that the site cut was off.  The two walls in the front are too far forward and part of the wall in the back is too steep.  The SS suggested we leave it as is and they could just change the plans, which dh agreed to.  Easy solution on their part, grr!  So now we must wait for them to redraft the plan so the contractor can go ahead with the retaining. 

An a personal note, dh got a letter saying that he might be relocated next year.  It's unlikely because of my job and the subjects he teaches, but he's only in his second year of teaching and got lucky to get placed in Brisbane so far.  What a change that would bring to the plan of living in our family home for the next 10+ years. That was the idea of this house, the house the kids would grow up in.   I believe no matter what happens it will be fine so we must keep on as planned and if something changes then we'll deal with it then.

Interior colors

I have been reviewing my colors trying to feel good about it and have decided to post them and then forget about it.  They are all nice, I like them...but when we got to color selection dh decided he really like the display kitchen which was the new graphite.  He hadn't had a lot of input so I went with it.  Then we realized the grey next to the grey tiles in the other rooms would clash so I went back to the limed ash in those rooms and I always wanted the ensuite to be different.   I think some of it was panic and I was being indecisive and the color lady made some suggestions and this is the result--

Kitchen-Upper cupboards-Snowdrift (white)

The Glass splashback is called Virtual Snakeskin, it looks more grey in person rather than brown

Quantum Quartz Countertop- Luna White

Lower Cupboards, Island backboard-New Graphite

The kitchen and living area floors will be a wood laminate.

Laundry and Main Bathroom Cupboards-Limed Ash

Laundry Laminate Countertop-White Valencia

The countertop in the main bathroom is quantum quartz ice

Feature Tile in Main bathroom-Wall Candy Humbug

Floor Tile in Bathroom, Laundry and Powder Room- Luxe Anthrocite

The cupboards in the ensuite-Oyster Linea

The benchtop is quantum quartz Coral Reef

The floor tiles to the ensuite-Luxe Mocha

Wall tiles to all walls-Still Grey-I can't find the photo but it's white with a grey swirl to it.  And the feature tile in the ensuite is a vertical strip smaller Luxe Mocha in the shower with a silver strip running on either side.