Inside photo

Here are some photo's I've taken over the past few days

Security doors were installed - marine steel grade mesh or something, I'm calling it the door people don't see as I have already had two people not realise it was there and try to walk through it


Driveway is all boxed up for concrete


Driveway boxed up


Outdoor/alfresco area boxed up


I asked them if they could move all my bricks to the back corner with the bob cat and they did :) Although I wonder how many broke


Now the bricks are moved the side of my garage is all cleared and flattened out


My kitchen!


Kitchen


Island bench


Oven


I love the space on the top here, it's huge!


Meals and family with my old furniture


Family, meals and kitchen


My letter box - it needs a bit of a clean up and I want to paint it the same as the render


First meal cooked in the oven

Lock it in Eddie!

My PCI and handover dates are officially official now!! :D As opposed to being told its those dates but not actually having it set in stone! Sweeeeeeet!

No word on the invoice yet though, hopefully they get that sorted today and can email me a pdf of it so I can call the bank up and get them started on it all!!

I also got a phone call today that my security doors are ready! I've booked them in for the afternoon of handover - lets hope handover goes smoothly... might be a fine fine line...

Just think, this time in two weeks I will have woken up in my new house from my first nights sleep there!

To do list

I tell you what, moving into a new house on it's own needs a project manager! So far I have organised to put up the temporary redi shades and front window blinds the Tuesday (handover day). On the Wednesday I am moving and have scheduled the fly screens to be installed that afternoon. Thursday/Friday/Saturday hopefully my concrete for the driveway and alfresco is done, two days is needed - fingers crossed for good weather. I also need to organise a day for the security doors to be installed and I need to organise the cleaning of my current place and I need to clean up the backyard! Gawd I have soooooooo much to do that it's not funny! Also as already mentioned I still don't know when I will get a phone line AND I need to get my tv antenna connected in the roof! I'm trying not to watch my recorded tv and downloads just incase I wont have tv recception or internet - my gawd, could you imagine no TV and no internet?!?! The mind boggles!

Quotes ahoy!

I am getting organised now and feeling a lot more in control!

I have a concreter, a fencer and a security door company all coming to site on Thursday after work to give me quotes! Noice! I'm also waiting to hear back from another concreter and I probably should get another security door quote too. I've also spoken to my window supplier and they are going to send me a proper quote for my fly screens.

I'm still not sure what colour to do the driveway and if to stencil it or not. I was originally going to go charcoal/black but my house is all based on browns so now I'm thinking a brown colour? Although I'm a bit worried about how that might turn out.

My cornices went up yesterday! I got some photo's but haven't had time to load them up.... I'm not going to get out there tonight but hopefully tomorrow!

Starting to panic

I'm starting to go into a bit of a mild panic about everything! Ignore the whole fact I need to pack as I really don't think it will take me that long to do, but I still need to organise all of the following:

• Fencing quote and then work out when to get it done (before or after I move in?)
  
• Driveway quotes and what kind of driveway do I want? Due to all the mud I'm leaning towards black/charcoal or a brown coloured one maybe
  
• Alfresco area - paved or concreted? Do I spend the extra money and get it paved or not?
  
• Fly screens and security doors need to be ordered
  
• I need to look at couches and get an idea of price and how long till they are delivered etc
  
• I need to buy redi shades for all my windows as blinds will be a while off
  
• Speak to removalists
  

Of course a lot of this stuff depends on what kind of bonus I get from work this year and I may not know that for another 2-3 weeks! ARGH!

Fly screens and security doors

I just called my window supplier (A&L windows) to get a quote on fly screens and I am wondering if anyone can comment on the prices:

Awning (full length) = $45ech
Sliding (any size) = $30 each

So I have 3 full length awning and 10 sliders so that's a total of $435

I also asked about the sliding doors and they range from $445 for a basic one with diamond mesh and key lock through to $800 for a marine grade steel mesh slider with a key lock.

So say I get a $800 door for the meals slider, a basic $445 one for my laundry, that's $2115 $1680 and that doesn't include my front flyscreen/security door!

Thinking about it, I'm wondering how dark/thick the steel mesh screen will be, I may actually prefer the diamond pattern one on my meals slider door to let my light in.

Also, I'm thinking that I might just get a diamond pattern one for my front door too. It will match my garage door and window frames and will give the front of the house more colour - I spose I might be better off waiting to see my garage door before deciding on that one. It would be nice to get a steel grade mesh security door on the front, but I'm not that concerned about my main front door being hidden as it's not like I deliberately upgraded to a nicer looking one or anything