Render finished

The renderer finished applying the top coat of colour today to the front of the house and to the retaining wall. The colour is Dulux Champignon. The renderer left the leftover colour for us which is great in case we need to do any touch ups in the future. We were extremely happy with this renderer and will be getting him back to render some retaining walls we are planning for the front yard. You can see in these photos that we have also had our fencing started. This week also saw the removal of the temporary fencing and portaloo. 

The painter was kind enough to paint our feature wall in the family room. We chose Dulux Teahouse, which is the same grey colour as the theatre room. I'm quite happy with how it suits the Dulux Beige Royal walls.

A shot of my kitchen without all the rubbish everywhere.

We had our final inspection by the building surveyor on Wednesday for the Certificate of Occupancy - we failed :( 

A few of the items have already been rectified and a few more things will be finished Monday morning. The inspector is booked to re attend Monday afternoon so fingers crossed it all goes well and we can have the certificate issued on Tuesday. Once we have the certificate we can organise insurance and start the ball rolling with the bank to perform their valuation inspection and arrange final payment. 

The painter has taken longer than originally planned but he is working tomorrow (Sunday) to finish off for us. 

I have rescheduled the install of the curtains and blinds to this Tuesday so I'm looking forward to seeing those go in in a couple of days :)

Kitchen cabinetry and stolen basin :(

I spoke to the cabinetmaker today who confirmed that they did indeed leave three basins on site last week. That means we have had a basin STOLEN!! To make matters worse I've been told that the builder was present and aware that they were there. Why the builder left them there when they were under clear instruction to NOT leave any items we have paid for/supplied on site is beyond me. 

I have sent an email to the builder requesting that they replace the stolen basin as they had left it there against our wishes. 

Anyway, onto the good stuff. 

Our kitchen cabinetry was installed today. Cabinets are Laminex CrystalGloss in Palladium.

Spot for microwave in our island bench. We collected the microwave and trim kit and took it home as we didn't want to risk it being stolen like our basin was!

Our pull out bin

We have Einstein fitting our temporary doors... This one doesn't clear the timber steps. I hope they don't get damaged :-/  The proper door will swing the other way so why this door was hung like this is beyond me!

Fingers crossed they FINALLY fit the external doors this week and actually secure the property.