Love the floors! And you will forget about the cost once you are living in your lovely house. I didn't upgrade our doors because we had to cut costs…

Little cretins. I really don't understand how anyone gets their kicks from vandalism. I can only hope that years from now when they are grown up and have…

Lucky you spotted that one in time to get it fixed. Looks good!

Awesome news! Happy packing!

Thank goodness that's sorted! The shire inspection shouldn't take very long, ours didn't (even for Kalamunda shire!).

Ah yes, Gosnells. Not the worst though, there are another two metro councils that I find are worse than Gosnells to deal with.

SB we've been in our house for two years and still haven't sorted out the lights for the study, laundry and bathroom. Mainly because we can't agree. I'm…

So close yet so far... Hope the ATU can get sorted out quickly and you can get shire sign off. We'd had so many dramas with ours that I…

You could point out to your council that having an odd number on the even side of the road contravenes the Australian Standard. Write to the council and ask…

Congratulations on getting the keys! Finally, the end!
The paint finish was pretty crap on our place, too. I'm beginning to think the painters employed by builders take no…

The roof looks great. The shale grey looks different in various lights to me. I know ours looks lighter on bright days and quite dark on overcast, rainy…

Hope all goes well today. Stand firm and remember you are paying for all this. Don't let them make you feel as if they are doing you a…

Colorbond moment is not far away at all now... The Shale Grey will look good with your bricks and other colours (very similar to what I have apart from the…

The clean done on our place was next to useless so much so that when the SS offered to get it done again I said not to bother. I…

Trees A Green in Wattle Grove had frangipanis a few weeks ago. Don't be afraid to grow one from a cutting, they really are amazingly tough.

The house is looking great, the colorbond moment wont be too far away at all now. I'm pretty sure I drove past yesterday, taking a short cut to a…

Aww SB. As a fellow Hills builder who also had "fun" with septic systems and earthworks, I understand a bit how you feel. Just try to stay focussed…

Love the front door! And the bath...I'm really kicking myself that we didn't do a freestanding bath, it looks so much nicer.

With a corner block the correct address is determined by the access to the front door of the property. If the property faces street X then it should be…

We've got one of those patio link style insert pet doors because we couldn't decide where to put a pet door in the new house. A strong wind blows…

Thanks for the suggestions, all great ones. Maybe I'll think more about the red curtains...guess he has to have his choice somewhere in the house, right?! Plus I…

We've just painted our theatre room in Dulux Sea Elephant and now I'm struggling to choose a curtain colour. The carpet is a lighter brown and we have a…

I've got lights from micalighting.com.au before.

Annoying isn't it? Our septic also didn't end up where it was shown on the plans which stuffed up our shed placement too.

Re roof - colourbond is safer as a burglar could take tiles off and gain access to your house (don't know if this actually happens but theoretically it could!

Thanks for the replies. So the quote she got was reasonable after all. Shows what I know!

Wow! Looking good. In fact it looks so good it almost makes me want to build again...

A friend just got a quote for 1.8m Colorbond fencing at $90 per metre (50 metres of it) which I thought seemed a bit expensive compared to the $78 per…

Once the application to create the new titles is lodged with Landgate it shouldn't take too long for the titles to issue. That's the last step in the process.…

All looking wonderful Jen, you've done so much, hard to believe you've only had keys for a couple of weeks! We also put a chandelier in the entry and…