- 2nd shower head in the ensuite (with hand held) we have the rain showerhead & the shower is a pain to clean! (we have it as per the display…

Iverson - Your home looks beautiful! It will be well worth the wait!
We've recently celebrated our 3rd anniversary living in our Seaview 36 and we love it!
It's so functional and…

There is a DA in for construction of a mixed-use village centre comprising of: a childcare centre, medical centre, gymnasium & convenience store next to the Stonecutters Ridge Golf Club…

We bought ours from Sydney Plant Market at Annangrove they have a few variety and sizes available

Unfortunately you aren't the only person building a house, it's a case of take a number and join the queue.
They probably have about 100 other people wanting their…

Koroboo - what are you doing to your garage floor? We used a diamond grinder and then epoxy painted it, was about $500 from memory, best thing we did. It…

Interesting about the air conditioner, I haven't had a spare moment to cross check our contract. We didn't have any birthday specials or builders promos, just the add the caesarstone/air…

Maintenance has now taken longer than it took to build the house!!!!!!!
Painter finally finished up on Saturday only took him 5 visits to get it right.
I now hassle the supervisor…

Our rear garage door has a metal frame and they have painted it to match the rest of the trim and it looks fine.
We fit two cars in our garage...…

Hope Jen is ok, I know she is up in the port Stephens area.

Looks fabulous!!! Can't believe it's finally all happening for you!
Floor plan looks great, flows really well.
My husband would love a hoist for his minis I am sure!!
Looking forward…

Misch - Amazing! Your kitchen looks stunning!! I think more photos are called for.
Update here... maintenance is STILL going... French polisher came and fixed some scratches in the landing of…

Sixor - your kitchen looks amazing!

SB - Unfortunately a lot of new estates with few compariable sales figures are coming up against the same thing. We had to pay LMI despite having about 30% deposit,…

We have an ASKO and I love it, everything comes out sparkling clean, it's very quiet and efficient too.

My husband is a builder and thought it was code to have frosted glass to bathrooms!
Our builder was standard.
Apparently builders are leaving them plain glass!
Yep, they have blinds but the…

Please remember to frost your bathroom windows......
We frosted ours, but our neighbours whose bathroom I can look down into from our bedroom or up into from the clothesline DIDNT!…

You home looks amazing!!! The garden looks lovely.
Where did you get your dining table & side board from, I have envy, they are just gorgeous!

Yep, it swivels and winds up/down to adjust the height.
They were available in two sizes - these are the larger of the two

Thank you! There aren't too many photos of the exterior, I will have to do an exterior update in the coming days!
We're happy with the paperbark, it looks good, and…

Jen - Our bricks were finished in July last year, and on cleaning the bricks, the bricks have been damaged/burnt (whatever the brick cleaner wants to call it) and we…

Thanks Fmac&Treeseachanger for your lovely comments.
fmac - the stools were from Domayne & the zig zag rug from Temple & Webster

Rawson_k - Congrats on getting this far, looking forward to following the rest of your journey.
Glad to have been of some help.

Here is a photo of my scullery/butlers pantry

There is a fridge in that space on the far right now & on the opposite wall there are double pantries.
Here is…

Here are the latest photos of my kitchen...

Vectra - here is the pendant
There are more photos on my blog

We have a Victorian Ash staircase with glass balastrade & Victorian Ash handrails.
It was quite a significant upgrade, as it was in the display home, my husband fell in love…

I'm a Hills girl born & bred, but moved from the Hills in 2006 but haven't strayed too far from the Hills, I am still only a couple of suburbs…

There are photos on my blog of my pantry set up too by the way

Our scullery is a walk through to the laundry, we have 2 massive cupboards on one side, one is the pantry and the other is for all our additional crockery…