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

• Cornices have been put up
• Stairs installed
• Eaves 95% complete
• Rendering 75% complete

Eaves are done with the exception of this bit here above the balcony but you don't the scaffolding for this which was pulled down this week.

Render to top 3/4 of the house. Now I'm assuming the render is still to get be painted cos this is not the colour I was expecting.

Cornices

Upgrade: Sydney 90mm & Standard: Gyprock Cove

Sydney 90mm Cornices - these were an upgrade

View of the Foyer/Front Doors

Gyprock Cove Cornice Upstairs - these are a standard inclusion. Very common in a lot of houses.

The Staircase 

Upgrade: Classic Staircase Option 2 

Charlton on Display in Eucalpt Wollert. The way this photo is shot makes the staircase appear a lot wider than it in in real life. Below is an actual shot of the staircase that I took.

Display staircase - No post instead the handrail wraps around the plaster.

• The house is all plastered on ground and upper floor
• Eaves have been put into place (still needs to be finished off) and 
• First coat of render applied to 75% of the house 

With the plastering up it felt so good to walk in and get a sense of space. I personally felt that the space looked smaller than it did pre-plaster but that will most likely change once it's painted as the lighter colour will make any space appear bigger.

From a plastering perspective the cornices will go up next, it's so good to see your house start to show some personality with our world of style selections starting to be realised.

Front Entrance

View of Kitchen

View of Family and Dining room from the Kitchen

Family Room

Pantry (Left) and Galley (Right) - does the Pantry door look narrow to you by comparison?

Energy drinks seem to be the drink of choice for our tradies

You'll notice markings or notations either spray painted or written on the concrete slab this is mark where the electrical are so the electrician can do his/her thang once the plaster is up.

Our downstairs shower

Upstairs games room  -Awning Cathedral windows due to overlooking issue.

One of the rear bedrooms (Can't remember which one)

Downstairs bathroom - If you have chosen to tile all the way up to the bathroom ceiling as we have the cornices will be put on after the tiles have been laid.

We were going to add a transom above our entry doors to make use of our norther light aspect but just as well we couldn't because the balcony would have prevented any natural light coming in.

First coat of render done to 3/4 of the home.

Top half is first coat of render. Bottom half is hebel.

Eaves

Eaves in progress.

Whats next?

So this coming week we should see 

• Eaves completed
• Rendering to 75% of the house completed - looking forward to seeing the render colour, 
• Cornices installed
• Stairs will be put in the week after
• Cabinetry - don't have any idea as to when to expect this yet. I'll ask in my next chat/update with our BC or SS later this week.