Building Our First Home

Well it's update Wednesday!

The bricking is coming along slowly, taking a bit longer than we think it should, but hopefully it's all on track.

They've at least almost finished the front of the house including the entrance and garage, and are gradually making their way around the whole house.

We are both a little concerned about the front of the house being the 'Oakland' facade. The original Camberwell 29 has the 'Balgowie' facade, the one we originally chose but had to change because of a neighbour with the same facade.

We went on to change ours to the Oakland, but this facade has a very prominent portico entrance, which given the style of our Camberwell doesn't seem to match.

Of course we are only realising this now, and after seeing the brickwork finished at the front of the house, we are thinking there is too much space above the front windows.

There will be render all around the bottom half of the front facade, so we hope this will make balance out the overall look.

It's always a gamble choosing your exterior style and colours, one you will have to live with for a very long time; hopefully ours will look okay!

Today not much appeared to have changed from the first look at our home. But on closer inspection we noticed the brick infill to the top of the garage had been finished. This is an upgrade from the normal plaster board that is above the garage door.

Nothing looked much different from the front, but heaps has been going on at the back. They have nearly finished the side and back walls of the house, mud and all!!

On the inside all the electricals have begun, and we were able to go through and see how many plates for power points they have put in. We have averaged 2 double power points in every room, and more in the living areas.

The bricking has continued on the front of the house, and the garage is finished. It gave us an idea of how the bricks will look with the roof.

We are still unsure of the colour of the mortar as it's still drying and hoping they have the colour right, we picked the upgrade of off-white to go with the bricks. So time will tell.

We also found they had installed the laundry door and put some temporary doors on the front, until our beautiful red slat doors come.

They have also started on the bath and finished the frame for the fridge

space for the kitchen.

Very soon it will be at lockup stage, and in around twelve weeks give or take a couple, we will be moving in!

When we got out there we found one lonely carpenter working on the inside of the front door with a flood light. So didn't feel like we could go through the house like usual, so we kind of said hi and snuck into the garage to have a closer look at the start of the bricking.

They wrapped the house a couple of days ago with insulation, and today they had started bricking the garage. As it was so dark and the mortar was still wet, it was hard to see how the bricks looked in colour, so by Saturday we should be able to have a good look at the colours and hopefully get some good photos.

We also found they have installed our beautiful bi-fold doors that lead to the Alfresco, they looked really good. Its all getting closer to lockup stage!

I imagine by Saturday there will be more bricks up, so stay posted!