Bricks Delivered And A Sneaky View From Upstairs

Today we dropped by the house to see if bricks had been delivered, and indeed they had. A veritable truckload of them!

The Whitsunday Brampton close up. You can see an example of how great they will look once all finished on Megan and Stefan's blog.

Our eldest Mikaela checks the frames for correct alignment.

Looks like there has been lots of activity relating to plumbing during the week. All drains piped and connected. All external taps have copper pipes bent and soldered into place. All internal tap points have their tubing runs. I figured that recycled water is purple whilst the fresh supply is black. Yellow is a mystery, could be hot water specifically but I can't be sure yet.

Now for some shots from upstairs ... I mean, up-ladder. Sandrine was extremely concerned for the safety of ... her iPhone, not so much her husband ascending the rickety ladder to take these shots.

Something that Sandrine immediately noticed was the height at which this window sits was far higher than that in the display homes. Of course on checking the elevation plans, it's exactly what we've signed-off, however it's just another one of those small details you miss in the sea of information that you're confronted with and need to rush-rush, sign-sign, commit! The 3D walkthrough that Metricon has recently started offering on tender presentation would probably have been helpful in highlighting the above to us. Ah well, such is building. :)

Ensuite showing window-over-bath and potential mountain views in the distance.

Looking across the master suite from the ensuite.

Master suite mid windows with more potential views (dependant on property behind yet to be built).

The walk-behind wardrobe area. Whoa ... I'd better not step to the left too much or I'll be airborne!

That's all for now. Have a great long weekend everyone ... those states that have one :).

End of Act II

Well folks, on Friday last week the curtain went down on act II of this great big performance:

"How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you?" (King Lear)

We were very happy to see framing appearing all complete, including roof trusses, and all windows installed! Framing started Monday and was completed by Friday. Was great to see tradies working everyday last week.

Here are some pics below as we did a sneaky walk through the house :)

Study. Place of refuge.

Sitting. Happy with the size of the windows actually, they seem larger than they appeared in plans. We also opted for thicker glazing and Q-LON seals around all front opening windows.

Through to Family/Dining/Kitchen. Beyond is where the timber bi-folds will eventually lead through to the outdoor room. Its looking like we will be able to capture the views behind us as long as the house behind is not going to be a huge double storey (no plans sent to council as yet). We are very happy with ceiling heights thanks to the extra ceiling height promotion and our need to have two steps down to the family/dining/kitchen due to the slope of the block.

Kitchen. Low profile window above the counter top, in promotion. However the window is not as big as the Newhaven displays (Metricon are sneaky that way). Not to worry though, as we will have plenty of light flooding through with the big window next to the kitchen as well as the bifold doors.

Hoping to put in some tropical plants along the fence line here, whilst Sandrine cooks up a storm.

Family. We opted for another low profile window here,the original plans had a big square window which would give out too much glare for tv watching, We changed it to the low profile to enable us to put the sofa underneath and eventually put some shutters over this window as a feature.

Upstairs. Looking up from outdoor room to our bedroom, well I thought this picture looked a bit arty. That's all for now.

Framing Started, starting to look like a house built out of sticks

Was great to see some activity resuming on site today after about a week's gap, and what we saw was the ground floor structure slowly starting to take shape...

Spoke to SS on Monday and he gave a quick update on what was to happen this week. Ground floor frames would finish this week and they will start on 1st floor by Wednesday. Its been good that the rain has held out to allow this progress.

Did a quick drive by this morning and here they are in action. They have attached some scaffolding to the frames to start the first floor...very exciting.