The past few months have gone in a bit of a whirl if I’m honest. One minute we were standing on a vacant piece of land, the next we’re moving in to our freshly built house. If I thought the hard work was over, I was wrong! It’s only just beginning {sigh}. So to date we’ve moved out of rental, done the bond clean (horrid, horrid job), moved in to new house, decorated one room and had the laundry fitted out. We still haven’t:- decorated, tiled splash back in laundry, finished lights, concreted alfresco area, landscaped garden, put side fence up, had shutters fitted. So just a bit to do then 🙂 But……..WE HAVE OUR NEW HOME! It feels amazing! The hard work is worth it. So here’s a few snap shots, all Iphone as I’ve been a tad lax in the camera department, hey ho I’ll get back to it eventually.

We really are so much closer to finally being able to move in. Hurrah, we did it. We have ‘almost’ built our own home. I think we’ve underestimated exactly how much extra work there is to do. It’s exciting and scary. We’ve still got electrical fittings to fit, a tap to change, some decorating {boys rooms mostly}, furniture to source, gardening – the list seems endless. It really is quite daunting.

Today the flooring is being finished. Pele and Lenny have done an awesome job. We worried about having bamboo flooring, but it looks amazing. Thank you SO much guys! We got our bamboo from Bamboo Australia in Belli Park, so a nice local company too. My lovely hubby also gave in and, {deep breath} I GOT MY PENDANTS LIGHTS! They are totally gorgeous and very much worth the $$$’s {although Mark would beg to differ}. I’m pretty sure he’ll grow to love them as much as I do, eventually. You can see them HERE. They’re going to look lovely in the kitchen.

So the next blog post be when we’ve moved in ~ eek, it hardly seems real.

XX Annie XX

Oh yes, we are ‘beige’ all the way through the house, and I’m loving it! Cannot believe the painting is almost finished. Next stop the final fit out and fix then I guess it’s time for us to take over and start making it ‘pretty’. It seems so strange that we are at this stage of the build. A few months ago, we stood on our vacant block dreaming of what ‘could’ be. Today we stand and gaze up at our ‘home’. Feeling very grateful right now and excited to see the final fixtures in place as well as the flooring and lights. Our planning has gone in to overdrive, though I really never, ever want to discuss down lights with anyone ever again, or bamboo flooring for that matter 😉 I’m beginning to wonder whether Mark and I will ever have a conversation that doesn’t involve ‘the build’. Holiday needed perhaps?

Annie XXX