FIXING STAGE PART 3 - COMPLETE
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
As usual Porter Davis have been progressing nicely with our build. Our weekly visits to the house have always surprised us with something new. This week we were delighted to see the majority of the cabinetry to our kitchen, laundry and bathrooms, internal doors and wardrobe doors fitted. Architraves were in the progress of being measured and installed and skirting boards delivered and sitting pretty in the foyer.
This afternoon I got the call from our site supervisor to say that fixing stage is 99% complete (1% of the architraves still to be ordered for some double doors) and even better news is that we are on track to have the house completed for handover before Christmas. Ho Ho Ho.
The Kitchen
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| Just how I imagined it to be. Just perfect. |
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| Kitchen Island |
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| It's looking all hamptons like already. |
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| Kitchen island view from inside. |
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| Formica Settler Profile in Colour Snowdrift |
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| Hettich Bronze Handles |
Skirtings
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Skirting delivered - 67mm Replica Architraves Downstairs Powder/Bathroom |
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| As standard there is no storage in the powder room but because we have converted it to a bathroom we upgraded to include a vanity and shaving cabinet. The vanity is floating to give the appearance of more space. |
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| Instead of the standard mirror we chose to upgrade to have a shaving cabinet again for storage reasons.. |
Internal doors
All the internal doors have been fitted. We chose the Corinthian Balmoral Primed Interior Door Featuring 2 Panels in the upgraded height of 2340mm.
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| Downstairs bathroom door (front) Internal Garage Access Door (rear) |
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Laundry DoorThe Laundry |
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| Formica Velour - Laundry Benchtop Finish Postformed D - Moudled Edge Colour - Snowdrift |
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| Laundry Cabinet Colour - Alabaster. Handles - Standard |
Bathrooms
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| Laminex in Alaskan with vertical grain Finish: Natural |
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| These drawers were an upgrade. I personally think you got to have drawers in the bathroom - so handy for your brushes and other bits and bobs. |
Wardrobes
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| All wardrobes have been fitted |
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| Standard Internal Door fitted upstairs |
..what's next?
- Work is progressing on the garage and alfresco which means hopefully all the hebel work will be completed ready for the render guys to finish their work.
- Spoke to SS about the rendering and he did confirm that what I saw was just a base coat so no need to panic. They will need to come back and arrange their own scaffolding to complete the render to the bottom half of the house, garage and alfresco followed by a final coat of render. Yippee.
- Painting will commence on the 4th November and hopefully be finished by the 13th November from which we will commence all the electrical fit outs.
The final stretch is finally here which means I really need to get a move on in sorting out our carpet and floorboard supplier. Its great that we might be moving in by Christmas but that means its also going to be a busy period for these flooring suppliers and other trades we'll need to get in post handover so it might mean a January move in afterall. On the plus side I will be making good use of the post christmas sales to furnish furnish furnish.
11 comments
Love your kitchen!!! The extra money on cabinetry must be worth it!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Yeah of all the decisions we've made during selections the kitchen was the only one ive been sure about the whole time.
DeleteYour house is looking great. Love you kitchen cupboards and Hamptons styling.
ReplyDeleteThanks Chateauone.
DeleteLove your kitchen cabinets, was it expensive to upgrade to that style?
ReplyDeleteThanks Aussiebell,
DeleteI definitely consider the upgrade to be expensive. To upgrade the cabinets it costed us about $7500K. No regrets about it though.
definitely worth it!
ReplyDeleteDo you remember how much your french doors were to the grand alfresco?
ReplyDeleteAbout $1000 for each set. But you get a credit back in lieu of the standard sliding door but not much though.
DeleteI love your blog! Congratulations on your new home and colour selections, your home looks amazing.
ReplyDeleteWe are about to build with Porter Davis and have our WOS appointment next week! We are also going with the classic hamptons design :-) I'm wondering if you can advise how much it cost to upgrade the internal doors, cornice and skirting boards?
Thank you in advance and we hope your enjoying your beautiful new home :-)
Hi Lisa
DeleteThanks for your lovely comments. Congrats on the build. WOS is an overwhelming but exciting day!
To upgrade the height of the doors to the max height of 2340mm in the Balmoral 2 panel style it costs approx $226 per door.
The 90mm Sydney Cornices we used costed us $1436, 85mm Replica Skirting costed us $150, 67mm Replica Architraves costed us $76
Keep in mind the pricing is always in lieu of the standard option which you get a credit back for.
Hope this helps you.
Have fun @ WOS!