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Share our trials and tribulations as we build our new home - a custom Dominico by Fairmont Homes NSW

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Second Story View and Brick Delivery

A visit to the block this weekend and there has been a bit more progress...and a few more errors (I'll explain in pics below).

She's coming along nicely!

Our formal dining room (or reading room) window. It's very large and unfortunately our house sits higher than the neighbours' house so we get a lovely view of a fence (when it's up) and bricks. Plus they can see into our window (see pic below). So, at the moment we're thinking of installing sheer curtains as well as block-out curtains for privacy while still letting light in.



This is our laundry wall which will have cabinetry and our washing machine and dryer. Unfortunately the washing machine taps (on the left of the pic) appear to have been installed too high and too far to the right.

View of our kitchen/meals area

An unwelcome waste pipe in our study. I hope it can be moved as space is already a premium in that room.
I was so excited because we were able to go upstairs for the first time as the sub-floor is in! I thought downstairs was beautiful, but upstairs just floored me. The photos do not do it justice at all, but the view from both the front and back of the house is really amazing. I can't wait to live in the space!

The view from our upstairs TV room (shame about the port-a-loo!)

View from Bed 4. You can't see it properly in the photos but the hills in the background looked beautiful.

View from Bed 1 and upstairs landing (from the angle you can't see much of the golf course but in reality it's so serene).

Bed 1! I can just imagine our bed against the floating wall...

I can't wait to have a balcony to step onto

The window on the right is not meant to be frosted. Apparently the window company made a mistake and are sending out a new one in a few weeks.

Unfortunately we're now worried that we can't fit a wardrobe next to the window...

Our ensuite. The over-head shower outlet seems to have been incorrectly installed as a wall-outlet. Another thing to mention to Fairmont.
The bricks! When I describe them, I say they're like peaches and cream. With pink and cream subtly mottled through them. Unfortunately in our lot there looks to be a lot more pink than cream which is a bit worrying. I really hope they look nice when up.

Our bricks. Boral "Rose Cove."
Well, we are excited, but there are a few things to work through. Nothing worth having is ever easy.

7 comments:

  1. Oh my, your home looks absolutely magnificent standing tall with that stunning blue sky behind it! It seems like nothing is ever easy is it, but it will be so worth it. All of that preparation is really paying off now, you are finally actually doing it! I love, love, love watching your house go up, she's a beauty.

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    1. Thanks so much Lauren. I look forward to your updates every week too. Your setting is magnificent. Space we WISH we had!

      I'm so glad it's coming together. As impatient as I am for the finish, I am still enjoying the journey :)

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  2. Looking good guys! Plumber made the same error with our showers, and that was fixed thank goodness.

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    1. That's good to hear :)

      Last we heard they can probably fix the shower issues but not the waste water pipe and laundry drain box. We're really disappointed. But who knows, maybe they'll fix it...

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  3. Gosh :/ we have to have our laundry changed too. It is too small for our washing machine. Another stressful week, really hoping the little errors are done and out of the way for a smooth ride for us now.
    Plumber has to fix one of our showers again . Hopefully they can do something about the drains.

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    1. Just saw your message (sorry). We don't seem to be having much luck with the plumber do we? As long as they fix things though, we'll be right. In our case, I suspect we're stuck with the waste pipe in the study :-S Hope your errors are/were corrected swiftly!

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    2. Just saw your message (sorry). We don't seem to be having much luck with the plumber do we? As long as they fix things though, we'll be right. In our case, I suspect we're stuck with the waste pipe in the study :-S Hope your errors are/were corrected swiftly!

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