Kitchen and vanity cabinetry installation started

04/08/2012

We were contacted by Di Lorenzo on the weekend about their concerns about tiling to 2.1m upstairs by our selves post hand over. This would cause some wastage and damage to the walls in the process and the tiling lines would probably be a bit weird. Anyway they would allow us to get the current 25% off sale price on the additional tiles needed upstairs. So we got an updated quote and paid today for the additional tiling. Luckily this was sorted out this week as we were told that tiling would start commencing Monday next week.

8/8/2012

Got a call from our SS with the following updates:

- The carpenter has finished all the fixing

- The kitchen, bathroom and laundry cabinetry will be installed today

- Tiling to start next week

12/08/2012

Yay the kitchen installation has been started!

L shaped island bench which will have water fall edges

The cupboard corner space in the top of the picture which will be unusable. We did consider putting a door opening on the other side but didn't like the look so we removed this option.

Decide to run cat6 to the kitchen island bench just in case. This is where we will have the Clark Razor 5940 stainless steel undermount sinks.

Kitchen sinks should look like this

Our kitchen doors are Natural White in gloss 2 pack polyurethane with vogue profile. All top cupboards are "push to open" touch catches. Microwave tower on the left is also an upgrade, and it's an extra $650 just for the inbuilt microwave! 

 Where the Baumatic Undermount Rangehood will be installed

 Cavity for the rangehood

Cupboard doors to the rangehood use different push to open touch catches, these lock in once closed and can only be opened by actually pushing the door, where as the others can be opened by pushing or pulling the door.

 As part of the Spoilt for Choice Promotional we get a 900W upright cooker here.

In the original floor plan there is a void to the right of the kitchen bench top, we got this deleted and extended the bench and put in extra cupboards. 

 The 3 pot drawers to the right of the upright cooker. The middle drawer is shorter in depth due to the tap.

 Butler's pantry will also use the same colour theme as the kitchen

  

 All top cupboards are "push to open" touch catches

 Butler's pantry will have a Clark Cellini round ERT overmount.

Butler's sink should look like this

    

Pantry cupboards, they are nice and deep so there will be lots of storage space. Since the Butler's pantry opens into the laundry, we decided to use the same colour theme as use in the kitchen. Natural white cupboards in gloss 2 pack polyurethane.

Laundry bench top will extend over the washing machine/dryer to give us more bench space.

  

Broom cupboard which will have a power point installed inside.

  

Powder room vanity and shower

Powder room vanity with Asian Night 7949 laminate from Wilsonart

  

Bathroom shower and tub water proofing

Bathroom vanity installed with the same theme as the powder room

 

Bath tub with an additional drain to catch any leaks which is plumbed directly outside the building.

 

WC water proofing

Ensuite water proofing and vanity

Ensuite mirror will extend past the vanity

   

Ensuite shower and WC

Our 7093 litre water tank, I still can't get over how much this is costing us.

They painted the wall before placing the water tank on the slab. I think the colour of the tank (Colorbond Dune) blends in quite well with the render colour (Dulux Dreyfus). I requested that they add an extra 100mm to all sides on the utility slabs for the installation of a screen, but in hindsight I should have doubled it to 200mm.

Internal fit out started

31/07/2012

Got a call from our SS to say that over the next two weeks they will be preparing the fit out stage which involves the carpenter installing the doors, architraves, skirting. The wet areas will also be prepared for tiling and the kitchen/bathroom cabinetry will be delivered afterwards for installation. He also mentioned that the stairs has been installed and we can't wait to see it.

4/08/2012

Dropped onsite to find our front door had been installed! We upgrade to the Corinthian Windsor WINSWS 6G pivot door (2340mm high x 1020mm wide) in case anyone wants to know. Unfortunately to fit the Nolan 41 on our block we have to move the garage into the entry by 360mm. This meant that we couldn't install a wider front door without sacrificing the sidelights. We paid extra for translucent glazing but it's well worth it. Before signing off on the floor plans we decided to switch which way the front door swings. In the show room the key barrel is on the left, so the door swings right. That felt unnatural to me so I had this reversed.

  

Corinthian Windsor WINSWS 6G pivot door

Given that we can't actually see who is at the door and neither can the visitor, we'll need to install a video camera/intercomm. The cheaper option would be to install a peep hole which we can still do but I prefer a video door bell.

The stairs have been installed and we upgraded to maple tread and risers with stainless steel balustrades. Glass balustrades would have been nice but I'm concern that with little kids, the repair bill would just be too painful. As expected they had a layer of protection on the treads to avoid all the wear and tear during the internal fit out. 

 

Storage under the stairs

  

Electrical sub board will be installed under the stairs and this will be where all the cat6 cables will terminate. I'll need to purchase a fanless gigabit switch like this TP-Link TL-SG1016D. Overtime the stairs will rub against each other creating lots of saw dust, so I'll have to consider putting gyprock inside the stair case if M isn't going to do it by default. We'll also make sure the floorboards extend into this room as well. Nothing worse that dusty cold concrete on your toes.

 

  

They have started on the architraves down stairs and what I don't understand is in these photos is why the inside powder room architraves used is raw wood and the outside is a painted version? Is there supposed to be a difference?  

  

Laundry door (WIN21 2040mm high) with translucent glazing and butler's pantry sliding doors

Skirting and architraves

The pile of off cuts and saw dust heap

Upstairs cornices complete, we chose Boral 55mm Cove cornice, over the standard 90mm which was a no cost option. I prefer the smaller cornice look, if square set wasn't so expensive I would have paid for it upstairs.

Bedroom 1 French Doors installed

  

Sliding door to ensuite and bedroom 1 entry door (1020mm wide)

  

Bathroom WC sliding door and bathroom door installed. Since we upgraded the first floor ceiling height to 2550mm, it tends to exaggerate how narrow the doors are in the bedroom (820mm) and more so  the bathroom/toilet doors (720mm).

How door frames are padded out to fit to the house frame

Bedroom 5 door installed, all internal doors are 2340mm high

Bedroom 4 robe frame, we removed the void (approx 510mm wide) on the right and extended the robe space, $195 money well spent if you ask me as we've now got more storage.

I'm expecting the cabinets to be installed next week and we can't wait to see the kitchen.