It's lock up time

Since, we've been back from our whirlwind trip, we've gone to the house a few times to check on it, but unfortunately it's at lock up stage and we couldn't get in (could never catch the tradies when they were there). So when we received a call from the tiler today to come to the house to confirm our feature tiles placement, hubby and I jumped at the chance.

OMG! Plantation Homes has definitely been busy at our place. All cupboards are in, stairs are in, even the kitchen bench is in. The tiler had laid most of the floor tiles and expects to be finished by Wednesday. And the painters were there and painted one coat on the main part of the render. And apparently he and his team need another week to finish everything. Then it's just the electrician, the rest of the fixtures (tap, sinks, shower roses, etc) and the house should be done in about 5 weeks! Honestly at the rate they're going, they might be done before that. They had at least 10 guys working on the house today.

So folks, here are the photos from our build:

I am liking the colours here- dark wood with light bench top with dark specks sprinkled around to tie it all in. Choosing colours is quite a scary thing as you are never sure how they will turn out. My advice folks- go with your gut instinct, colours that naturally please or draw you. For me, it's dark wood contrasted with white and red accessories. I am also so glad I went with the 80 mm stone bench top, rather than with the stardard 20mm. It does make a huge difference! Let's hope I will also like my red glass splashback!

In the laundry, we decided to go neutral with natural stone/tan colours as it is afterall the laundry. And really does anyone really want the laundry to stand out??

This is Amira's bathroom with beige/tan colour tiles and benchtop, contrasted with glossy white cupboards. Again we decided to go neutral here so that we change accessories to suit our moods/seasons/trends. The boys' bathroom and the guest bathroom downstairs have the same colour scheme; the only difference with these bathrooms are the featured tiles. The master bathroom is completely different in colour scheme because, well it can be and we want it to be a feature. I couldn't take a photo today unfortunately as only one roll of the floor tiles was laid, but the colour scheme is charcoal grey floor tiles with glossy white wall tiles. The double vanity contains grey stone benchtop with glossy white vanity cupboard doors. I've already bought red towels and bathmats to contrast the grey, a colour combination I love, not just with interiors but also clothes. Can't wait to show you guys the finished room!

This is the final render colour- field stone. But again the photo doesn't do it justice. It's a deep stone colour, with charcoal grey painted feature pillars.