Security Fence Removed

No exact dates yet for handover as yet. There have been whispers of April 15 for PCI but nothing set in concrete.

House Cleaned

Cleaners were in today and have removed the plastic film from all windows and stacker doors, mopped the bathrooms and tidied up our kitchen

Managed to get a proper look at our splashback and it looks good, although I'll admit it wasn't quite what I was expecting. We had intended on getting something grey to match in with our cabinets, however in some lights the colour looks almost olive (and i suspect this is due to the natural tint in the glass itself).

That said, I think it'll come together better once appliances and flooring are installed

Mmmm clean stacker doors

Splashback - happy with it although it is much more green/brown than our cabinets :(

Our lovely island benchtop without the covers - Caesarstone Ice Snow

Colours dont match, boooo

This picture probably reflects the splashback colour the best - looks greyish on it's own but then looks olive next to our cabinets

Love our big sink

AC return in hallway

Clean windows, ahhh

Splashback Installed

The big day finally arrived and I am aware that the photo below is quite possibly the worst I've ever taken. We are well and truly locked out so I had to resort to a blurry pic through our stacker doors. I'm excited to see our splashback in different lighting as the entire kitchen was orange today in the afternoon sun.

I will update this post later with better pics of the splashback once I can get inside :)
 

Splashback in 'Heirloom'- cupboards look a bit funny here as the black covers that were over our Caesarstone benchtops have been flipped over during the splashback installation. 
I think this will look very different with appliances and no black covers over our Ice Snow benchtops

Air Conditioning Installed

I've been MIA lately as we had no progress with our house last week at all. Our glass splashback, which is one of the items I have been most excited to see, was due to be installed on Wednesday however several days later it is still not there.

Fortunately we had some site work today in the form of our air conditioning being installed.

Now I have been quite wary of our air conditioning after we opted to stick with the standard Derby unit rather than upgrading to the Actron (or even getting something like a Daiken after handover). The reviews I had read online said the Derby unit was noisy, unreliable and I was not exactly thrilled by the day/night cooling system - lets be honest, I like to laze around in bed all day so being able to only heat/cool the bedrooms OR the living areas was going to be difficult for me & my partner (who is likely to be in the home theatre).

To my surprise, I arrived at the house today to a Braemar unit (the BC183A to be precise). It appears that MJH have been using these lately due to lack of stock with the Derby units and frankly I am pleased that we got this one instead. Reviews for the Braemar unit seem more complimentary and no more day/night system yaaaaay (i think!)

An electrician will be back tomorrow to connect the AC together and fingers crossed our splashback finally gets installed.

Shower Screens Installed

Another surprise today - shower screens installed on a Saturday! Good one Stegbar & MJH

Ensuite glass panel. There are little foam squares all over the glass from either packaging or installation

Main bathroom

May have also gone completely crazy at IKEA today. Had some Xmas vouchers to spend so ended up with a bed, bedside tables, 2 sets of drawers (all in white) as well as some cushions. There are going to be some long nights ahead of us with an alan key.

Plumbing Fit Out + Mirrors

Plumbing fit out was completed today which means all taps, shower heads, toilets and a bath tub were installed.

 Oh hey, bathtub (I JUST WANT TO CLEAN THOSE TILES)

Shiny taps

Shower - main bathroom

Toilet - appears to have already been christened

Ensuite

Tap glamour shot - Dorf 'Enix'

 Taps installed for kitchen sink

The above photos were taken by my parents at around 2.30pm, and when I dropped by tonight I found a couple more surprises (excuse the shoddy iPhone photos)...

Huge mirror in the main bathroom - needs some Windex!

And another big mirror in the ensuite - LOVE IT

Electricians have also covered up the wires on either side of our garage

 Nice and tidy

Electrical Fit Out Complete

All lights, powerpoints, tv points etc. were installed today.

We're doing downlights ourselves after handover so we've only got a few lights scattered around the house at this stage.

Got excited and went to play with all the switches when it occurred to me... we don't have lightbulbs haha

I think plumbers will be in tomorrow to install the goods sitting in our garage. Our SS Mark advised shower screens/mirrors will go in next week and we're looking at PCI on 15th April (which is exactly a month ahead of schedule) with handover a couple of days after.

Can't believe the journey is almost over.

Entry - smoke alarm and light fitting (with no bulb!)

Downlights in the overhead cupboards in the kitchen - the only downlights we paid for with MJH

Heat/light/fan combo in the ensuite. These I could play with given they have bulbs built in, woohoo. That said, the 'light' is absolutely useless but the heat lamp and fan seemed to work well

Ensuite colours under the heat lamp