Mental Notes: House Inspiration (Again)

I was opening one of the catalogue from all the shops which normally fill up our mailbox on a weekly basis and found this interesting thing from Aldi which may be something that we will need in the new house.
As early as now, I am already planning the things that we need and where we will possibly get them.  I had this thought that being on special I need to get this mailbox as we will never know when it will be available again.




But, as I normally do, I would see if the same thing can be found somewhere else just in case I would not be able to get the Aldi mailbox as I am more concerned as to where I will put them temporarily since we wont be needing it for a couple of months from now.
Look what I found from our handy dandy local Bunnings.
Since this is available all year round, I decided to just leave it until we need it.

This letterbox (whose background looks like our house except that our brick is dark) is what I think we might go for and is ditching the idea of the brick one ...


Pebbles and stepping stones another thing that I have to remember and Bunnings is one of the place that we can source that from but I am still in the lookout for other places that we can source these on a cheaper price.




  

This is what we think would be how our side of the house would look like ... MrK would really be a handyman to pull off the things that we want as I am not prepared to pay someone else to lay them all. hahahah.

That's all for  now and thanks for joining us in our journey towards building our humble home.

10.04.2017

Though I don't want to be excited, why can't I ... when Beechwood already informed us that on this date is the day when our land will start to thrive life and movements when construction starts.

We are happy and should we say, excited too...

Thank you for joining us in our journey of building our humble home.

Kids Room and Hallway inspirations

Knowing that we decided not to fork out $230 per room should we try to change the colour of any room aside from the Shale Grey that we opted for our internal walls, which I do adore, I decided to head back to see some inspirations from the net to see how we can spruce up a grey wall to give it some personality.

After seeing these photos (plus more) I realised that its not that bad after all... I was really scared that it will not suit in our kid's room but these photos proved me wrong .

Trying to find that gorgeous pendant light too

I became excited on the crafts that I can do for the room .... Those photo frame is already playing in my head on how I will make it.

An inspiration for my little man who loves to read books

Now I turn my vision to our hallway.  The very first thing that people will see when we open our door, when we invite them over and I want it not to be too formal but something inviting and interesting.  Putting an art may not be everyone's interest so these ones might probably a good one to start with ... because I know, at some point - perhaps after a year or two, I will change it again to something more interesting for the time.

 

 

That's it for now and thanks for joining us as we journey to building our humble home.

Colour selection done!

Today, we inch forward to our most awaited construction of our humble home.  Today, we went for our colour selection ...

Here were what transpired today ... not complete yet as we still have to do our electricals (as soon as we book it) as well as tiles appointments (which will be done nearing to the construction laying the floor)

Externals:  Bricks (from the Austral Wilderness Range: Blackbutt, Tile roof:  Coal in Classic, Window frames:  Surfmist, Maroka Render:  Surfmist, Gutter and Downpipes:  Monument, Fascia:  Surfmist, Garage: Monument (*as advised by our colour consultant)

Manor Red (middle) will be the pop of colour that I was wanting to have - and that will be for our external door.  I had to convince MrK about it but our colour consultant agreed with my choice so I'm happy... at the end of the appointment MrK warmed up to it :)

I originally had set my mind on a Taubmans Foxtail but since our colour consultant wanted a soften ambiance, she suggested this Apache Stone colour which is not far from our original wall colour in mind.  It is in between that Flotsam and the popular Stonebridge... Happy with that :) ....
Note:  I could not accept our colour that the colour consultant advised after I have set my mind on this really nice warm grey (Foxtail) as I realised that from the review that this Apache Stone is really having a brown undertone in it so i called Beechwood the following day and changed it to Shale Grey. Love it.

Another changed plan. MrK sort of set his heart on this Caesarstone stone benchtop called Piatra Grey but because we are not willing to fork out another $4500 to what we already put up as an upgrade of $3800 to use for all our kitchen benchtop, we had to let go of that thought and be contend with one of their grey stone in the standard range called Tornado from their Quantum Quartz supplier. I think its not that bad.

Having it together with our Classic White no -handle cabinetry (which I originally planned for a Polar white but our colour consultant said this white is too "on your face" when harmonised with all our other colours I decided to approved her choice)

Carpets for all room.

Being both cooking and baking fanatics, MrK and I agreed to upgrade to a 900mm freestanding cooker.  Meet our new gentle giant in the kitchen.

This is our external door (with almost the same tri-lock door handle system) but in Manor Red (see pic below)

These are the upgraded door handle locking system choices that we had ...

And this was what we chose.  Both MrK and I pointed at it at the same time so I'm glad we were on the same pace.

I was also able to convince MrK to upgrade all the doors in the house from a plain one to this painted crisp white.

The profile of our cornice that comes in our standard range.

These are the handles that we can choose from but we decided not to upgrade as this can be changed after the handover and the fact that it will not do anything aesthetically to our cabinetry as we opted for a no-handle cabinets on the top so the standard range in brushed chrome style will only be used on the bottom which again can be changed after the handover

Garage door profile (right)- Slimline woodgrain finish in Monument - a bit darker than the one on the left.

Today, we signed our building contract and sealed all our choices in as well. We wait for the five days cooling period then awaits the bank's go signal (letter of commencement) then happy days starts soon.

That is it for now.  We shall update you when we have our electrical appointment come up soon. 

Thanks for joining us in our journey and see you again soon.

Colour selection here we come ...

Last week Wednesday (08.02.2017), MrK received a call from Beechwood informing us that we will be scheduled for our Colour Selection next week Thursday (16.02.2017).  Its exciting as it means we are getting closer to our build but at the same time its daunting knowing that once we decide on things like our wall colours or bathroom tiles, it will be for something that we should like or at least we can live with lol.

Let me share to you some of what MrK and I have agreed on and hoping that this will be in our range ....

 

Benchtop will be Peatra Grey with Carrara tilling as kitchen splashback. 

Charcoal floor and white on the wall ... yes simple but on the classic side.

 

We found a nice light grey almost like an exposed concrete for our floor called Belga Grey Shine (we were told by several friends not to choose the gloss one as it proves to be very slippery and with kids at home, it is not an ideal floor)

 

Some of the tiles that we chose ... you have to tune in as to where these goes.

Happy to say that when we upgraded to 900mm freestanding, our latest tender showed that our builder provided us with the latest Westinghouse freestanding cooker (only charged $1177 for this baby)

I pretty much know that this will be a regular occurrence in our lounge ... laughter, sitting together perhaps marathon tv watching but hubby and I definitely have our fav side now ... yes Hannah that's daddy and I's side ...

 

 

 

 

Some possible pendant lights that will go in the kitchen...

After three hours these are what we came up with for our tiles...

That is it for now.  We shall update you when we have our electrical appointment come up soon. 

Thanks for joining us in our journey and see you again soon.