Tile & Bathroom choices

We had a productive weekend out and about choosing a few items for the house. All bathroom fixtures and tiles have now been chosen.  It was a hard choice as I had in mind a totally different look to what I ended up with but I think these will remain classic and timeless and the tones will go well with everything else. I have such a hard time trying to visualise everything  - being a photographer I have a good eye but need to see it all together to ensure it will work

Tiles for floor and wall - we went for classic tones - both in porcelain.

Beige for floor ( which looks a slightly weird colour in this image as its not this dark or orange looking) and lighter marble look one for walls

I originally had planned to have the bathrooms tie in with the marble we are using on the kitchen splashback similar to below with a soft charcoal floor and marble benchtop/splashback. Hubby wasn't keen on the idea or the cost so had to compromise. I still love this idea so bit of a buggar

Bathroom style will be a little more like this but the floor will be a lighter beige. It should still work with the white bathroom fixtures and all the chrome tapware etc

We have also had a lot of problems with the bath I had originally chosen as there was a massive steal beam running across the middle where the waste would sit. Even having a plumber as a husband couldn't make it work so we then had to choose a new freestanding bath with a waste to one side. Not alot of choice as most of them have the waste in the middle but ended up choosing the Kado bath from Recce

Original bath chosen - I loved this one as I am such a symmetrical girl!

New bath option - hoping this will still work ( the joys of having limited choice!)

We also found our tiles for the fireplace.  We chose a beautiful French Pattern Travertine in a light colour - this will run up to the 10 foot ceilings and house the heater in our lounge room -   it will also have white custom built cabinetry on the other side to house the TV etc

We also selected all of our appliances for the kitchen - will up date with some images shortly. For once I was a good girl and came under budget! Previously when we first starting looking the oven I loved actually was our entire budget - how times have changed!

Currently the house is almost ready to roof which should start by next week - will update with some construction images soon - its finally starting to look more and more like a house

Dream House - Weeks 7-9

Lots of progress on the house over the past 3 weeks which has been great.  Starting to get exciting now seeing it all come together.  Frame should be completed next week with the roof trusses and then hubby has the big job of laying the colourbond roof and facia/gutter. It has been great walking through the frame - the boys have loved running through their rooms which is cute

We have also finalised our window and exterior door selections and all bathroom/tapware has been locked in.  Over the next few months lots of final decisions will need to be made and also the design of our kitchens and bathrooms which I am excited to start doing

Sub floor being completed

Other side of sub flooring - very smoggy on this day due to all the fires

Frame starting to come up - this is the boys section of the house with rumpus, 3 bedrooms, powder room, laundry and bathroom

Boys Rumpus room view  - although you can't see it in this image the Melbourne city skyline although far away can be seen in the middle of this window

My photography studio  - will have 4 amazing windows of this size - the light will be gorgeous - didn't realise how big everything looks with 10 foot ceilings in our back section of the house - love!

Main bedroom window - looking forward to seeing this window go in as it wraps around each side - a built in window seat will be made underneath

Must take my other camera out on site next week and grab some full length images of the house - the poor iphone can't seem to manage!

Weeks 2-6 - Dream House

Hmm - well not much happened the last four weeks on the house. Hubby completed all the drainage and underground plumbing over the Australia Day long weekend  - worked like a crazy person to get it all done as he works elsewhere full time as a supervisor - did a fabulous job!  ( although admittedly all his hard work was covered with dirt so hard to see what he had done!)

Already dreaming of finally being in our house - our rental has just a small courtyard and with 3 energetic boys and 40 degree temperatures I am going slightly mad - can't even tell them to head outside and play with the hose or water guns etc like they used to do all the time! The courtyard is also slowing being filled with all the stuff that spills out of our garage so has also become our storage area.  I also really miss having a garden - I will have plenty do though soon though with landscaping a 2000 square metre block.

Next week should see the completion of the sub floor and they will then move onto the frame stage - can't wait to take a walk through the house!

Sub floor with steel work starting to come together

Garage taking shape - this part will have a slab pour - a rather huge one too coming up to the doorway you can see!

My little site inspector Jack  :)

The concrete footings you see in this image above will be our verandah