Dream House Weeks 15-16

Finally the roof has been completed and windows have started to go in  - starting to look more and more like a house now - so exciting!  Just after the Easter break we sit down with our cabinet maker and design the kitchen and bathrooms - really looking forward to that

Front elevation with roof completed - still needs front veranda added at a later stage

Back elevation - you can now see where our chimney sits - this will be clad in travertine stone. 

Looking from the second driveway - this is the studio side with studio entrance, office and the bigger bay window is the main bedroom. Loving all my windows that are starting to go in.    Round one will be leadlight and made by my dad ( hint hint hurry up dad!)  Will hyperventilate when the back ones go in - they will look amazing as they wrap around the whole section to take in the view.  House will be fully rendered with sections at the front clad in weatherboard. Feels strange to dream about this house for so long and now here she sits starting to come to life

Dream House Weeks 10-14

The weeks are just flying by now - an update on the construction of the house so far four months into the build.

The frame has now been fully completed which looks great. This house is built very old school with alot of care taken in the construction of the flooring and frame work - this house is solid as - doesn't move an inch!  This coming week the roof should be completed as it was held up due to the unpredictable nature of Melbourne weather.  Windows and doors should be going in and the brick layers starting back to brick the house as we head into lock up stage - exciting!

Kitchen area at back of house

Looking into the back area from the entrance

Frame almost completed here - veranda still needs to be built once brickwork is completed

Our windows and doors delivered - these are all timber with highlights - will be painted in white eventually as the build progresses

Guttering and Fascia starting at the back - Shale grey guttering and surfmist fascia

The roof starts to go on - colour we chose is Shale Grey by Colourbond

The inspiration to our colour scheme - hoping our house looks just as elegant when finished

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