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

Shelving Complete

It's official. I am in love with my walk-in pantry. All shelving was installed today and I was particularly excited to see the pantry, given the display home I went to had a butler's pantry rather than a WIP.

It is spacious and I can't wait to fill it up with lots of unhealthy food haha

Shelves were also installed in all wardrobes today (including our walk-in robe) and linen cupboard.

Pantry - the shelves wrap all the way around, like a horseshoe

Melamine shelving in our walk-in robe - there is an ovehead shelf and hanging rail which extends the length of the robe in an L shape

Toilets and bath were delivered today too. Looks like there may also be taps and perhaps shower heads?

Can't wait to sit in that bath

Splashback Measured

Had to tilt my head to the side to read this handwriting though ;)

Lounges

Couldn't pass up Freedom Furniture's buy one sofa get one free deal.

Put some cashola down on these bad boys today:

Hilton Modular in 'Coal' - this will go in the home theatre

Signature Modular in 'Napa Cement' - this will go in the living area

Can't wait to get some colourful cushions in a variety of prints and textures to spruce it all up. Perhaps a black and white chevron rug as well.

And here is a photo of our facade with the garage door down - the builders mix stain is a perfect match.