Building the Charlton by Porter Davis

Painting has commenced in the house and when we saw it last weekend the first coat of paint had been applied to all the walls, trims and doors. According to our site supervisor he estimates a house of our size should take about 8 days. 

 For our wall colour we have chosen an off white colour called  Dhimba by Wattyl (sometimes known as Flokati) and Wattyl White for all our trims. I remember walking into our colour selections with our hearts set on the ever popular Antique White USA or Chalkdust but turns out these colours are considered to be warmer white tones and not in keeping with my colour palette (according to the World of Style interior consultant) instead we were recommended to go with a cooler tone such as Dhimba, so heck I just agreed and have kept my fingers crossed ever since. Turns out it ain't all bad, I particularly love how it brings out the white in the trims. Take a look...

Wattyl Dhimba

Internal Garage Access Door

Laundry Door

Love a white laundry

View of Front Entrance. So glad they painted the inside of the front doors white. Helps to brighten up the house. The external side of the door will be painted in Woodland grey.

Bl@@dy Cornice!! Gets me angry. Still need to sort this issue out.

Games Room

Games Room Wall

Master Room - View of WIR & Ensuite

View from the Master Room

Stair Void

The Kitchen

Just how I imagined it to be. Just perfect.

Kitchen Island

It's looking all hamptons like already.

Kitchen island view from inside.

Formica Settler Profile in Colour Snowdrift

Hettich Bronze Handles

Skirtings

Skirting delivered - 67mm Replica Architraves  Downstairs Powder/Bathroom

Upgrade: Floating Vanity Colour: Alaskan. Finish: Nuance

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.

Instead of the standard mirror we chose to upgrade to have a shaving cabinet again for storage reasons..

Internal doors

Downstairs bathroom door (front) Internal Garage Access Door (rear)

Laundry Door The Laundry

Formica Velour - Laundry Benchtop Finish Postformed D - Moudled Edge Colour - Snowdrift

Laundry Cabinet Colour - Alabaster. Handles - Standard

Bathrooms

Laminex in Alaskan with vertical grain Finish: Natural

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

All wardrobes have been fitted

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.