My ALL-White Kitchen....progress

I while back I wrote about my love of ALL-white kitchens, well its now a reality.

The day my kitchen was installed was a pretty exciting one. It made the house look a lot more like a home. Its all white, sleek and exactly what I wanted.

 

This picture was taken on my phone through my very dirty glass doors as I hadn't been able to get into the house at this point. It does the kitchen no justice at all, but in real life it looks lovely.

You just need to squint and imagine a splashback, pendent lights, down lights, appliances, wood floors and kitchen accessories. Its going to look amazing, I promise.

This is just a regular ol' laminate kitchen, no fancy stone benchtops or solid wood cupboards, but I'm out to prove that builders basic can look amazing. So watch this space...

Lock up = Doors, skirting, architraves

Lock up... I could no longer walk through the house unless I managed to get there when tradies were there working. Which was rare as I was at work most of the time.

 

Internal doors, skirting timbers, architraves and cornice all went up next. I decided to ask my site supervisor to leave the skirting timbers off in the main living areas and hallway as I am installing the flooring myself after handover and prefer a seamless look.

Generally these are installed (nailed and glued on, so quite a challenge to remove) and then people install their flooring and then have a strip of 'beading' added. although its not a bit deal and most people wouldn't notice, its one of those things that would just irk me. Its just a personal preference.

So basically what that all means is there are strips of uncut skirting timber left behind and once I install my flooring I will also cut and install the skirting boards myself. Bit of extra work, but I believe worth it.

Hoepfully I don't regret it later haha.

Insulation and Internal walls

Following on from my previous update post...

The electrical wiring went in next, followed by the insulation. For those who like the technical details I have R4 in the roof, R2.5 in the external walls.

 

I also choose to add internal wall insulation. This all helped my house pass the 6 star energy rating which is required when building a new home.
 

 

Only a few days passed and all my internal walls and ceiling were up. This was a bit of a wow moment as it finally started looking like a home. I could walk in all my rooms and image the furniture placement. It was also great to be able to see how the light flowed in through the different windows, depending on which direction they face.

 

 

 

This was kind of a sad moment too as I knew it wouldn't be long before all the doors went on, which means the house is at 'lock up' and I can no longer walk through unless there is tradies working there, as I don't have a key, but this also means one step closer to completion.

Lots and lots of updates

So it appears I up and vanished for a couple of months. woops. The house is almost at completion so I better catch up on updates and all the juicy details. First up the exterior, bricks and roof.
 

 

Loving my brick choice, its PGH Oyster with a light (almost white) mortar. I was a bit concerned when my 'brickie' sand was delivered as I thought it would look white, but it looked way too dark, however once it was up I could see that they had it right. The white sand, which was combined with 'brighton lite' mortar, ended up being quite a costly upgrade, however I am so happy that I did it. The standard for my builder is a 'grey' mortar, but honestly when they mix it with the regular orange brickies sand, it comes out an organgie brown colour. Which with my grey bricks, just would have looked terrible.

 

Its funny because in my area there were no houses with grey bricks and now they seem to be popping up everywhere in the last couple of months. When I was trying to decide which bricks to go with I had to drive over an hour away just to find a few houses with a grey brick.

Then the gutters, facia and roof went up. Only took them 1 day to put all that roof sheeting on, crazy. The colour is Colorbond Surfmist, its almost white. I love love love it! Most houses in my area have dark roofs, usually colorbond woodland grey or similar, so I like that I went with something a bit different. I will also be having a surfmist garage door, but that wont go on until the house is almost complete.

 

I was a little worried about my gutter-facia colour combo. I went with woodland grey for both. Little bit different as most people recommend that your gutters match your roof colour but I felt it needed some contrast and I'm really happy with how it turned out. pheww.

Photos do it absolutely no justice, Ill defiantly be uploading better ones in future.
 

Progress...

Thought I'd better put a quick little update on here. Progress with the house is feeling painfully slow, probably doesnt help that I drive past multipul times a day. Its like watching paint dry haha.

But I know all good things take time and I must be patient. Probably not one of my strongest qualities.

In the past few weeks the windows and sliding doors were installed which was exciting, they have loooovely white frames. I've also had gutters and brickie sand delivered, so surely there will be some more action soon.

Here's an early morning pic, with the sun shining in my living room :)