More damage and trying to settle in

This last week we have been busy moving things and trying to get settled.

This afternoon we removed the glass globes for the hallway lights from the laundry cupboard and attached them to the pendant lights.

My heart sank this afternoon (it's happened way too often with this build!!) when we pulled out the glass globes for the hallway pendant lights to find that one was broken :( So we couldn't fit the globe to the bedroom light :(

I'm extremely upset about this as I checked each and every one of them before the builder's cleaners came through, and we popped the three boxes in the top of the laundry cupboard to keep them safe. These glass globes are packed very well with a fair bit of space between the top of the box and the top of the glass globe. In order to break the glass the top of the box would have had to have been hit very hard, or it would have been opened before being hit... 

Here is a photo with the lights turned off. 

Here is my poor broken glass globe. You can see that someone has knocked it on top...

In other news we finally had the downpipe connected at the front of the house last week. Although he didn't actually connect it to the stormwater... You can see the stormwater pipe popping up in this photo. It needs to be moved around to align with underneath the downpipe and then connected. We have been promised that this will be done 'tomorrow'. We have heard the word 'tomorrow' since last week... It has been a common occurrence with this build, things will always be done 'tomorrow'. 

We are still also waiting on Melbourne Stairs to come and fix some squeaky steps between the garage and the house. The original stairs had to be replaced as they were 2mm too high to pass the building inspection. When they removed the old stairs they also had to remove one side of the skirting boards on the landing. We are also waiting for the builder to replace this. Once these stairs are fixed the builder has to arrange the stairs to the polished/lacquered. I'm a little disappointed this hasn't been done yet as I had this week off work and it would have been perfect for the stairs to be fixed this week as I could be home to arrange access for the trades. Now it will be more difficult for them to get access. 

You can also see our German Shepherd lying around here. 

Last week we also had a subfloor ventilation fan fitted. The builder had to fit these as the bricklayer placed the front ventilation grates in front of the joists/bearers so they can't actually work... Anyway, it's great that they finally fitted the fan, and I can just barely put up with the hum we hear when its running but I'm not happy about the ongoing power bill to run the damn thing! Especially because it was something we had to fit because someone many months ago stuffed up.

There are many other things outstanding which I won't go into detail with today. I think I'll reserve them for future posts! 

Hubby and I are looking forward to the day when everything the builder is supposed to do/finish is finally done so we can concentrate on other things such as landscaping. 

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Lighting

I purchased some of our lighting online so the sparkies can fit them for us.

For the master bedroom and my step-son's bedroom we are having a ceiling fan with a dimmable LED light. This model comes with a remote too which is great as we are pretty lazy! This fan/light combo was purchased from www.lightingillusions.com.au 

I bought three of these glass pendant lights. Two for the hallway and one for the master bedroom hallway. Now I have to decide which type of globes to put in them... These lights were brought from www.onlinelighting.com.au 

This is the stairwell light fitting. I'm not a huge fan of it so may change the shades when it arrives. It would be great to fit glass shades onto it. I will have to do a hunt once the fitting arrives. Our stairwell was difficult to find lighting for as the wall in the middle goes right up to the ceiling so we couldn't put one single light as there isn't a big space. We thought the below option was good as it will light up both sides of the stairwell. This light is from www.ozlighting.com.au

Our kitchen pendant lights. I'm bucking the trend of three by only having two of these over our island bench. I like that they are a little different and as they're a beautiful amber colour they will complement the colours of our dining suite chairs (black with small brown & gold flecks) perfectly. I purchase these lights over 12 months ago from www.beaconlighting.com.au 

This light will now go in the guest bedroom (marked as study on the plan). This is one of the only rooms with carpet and as we chose a dark carpet I wanted a light coloured light fitting. This light was originally purchased to be hung above the dining table but it will not suit the dining table we have since purchased. I also purchased this light from www.beaconlighting.com.au 

I will buy the rest of the light fittings later on. Most of the other fittings will be DIY so we can fit them on at any time.