Wet area wall tiles are up

Tonight's stalking event identified that the wall tiles are up in the bathrooms, including the side of the bath, and the kitchen. Loving the ceiling high tiling from what I can see, the feature tile looks awesome and I think a bit darker than I anticipated but this is alright as it with balance the dark floors - I was beginning to worry the house would be very light and uninspired. The kitchen splashback also looks good though it isn't as albino coloured as I thought and picks up the light brown fleck in the benchtop. The splashback goes to the underside of the overhead cupboards s0 I think this looks quite effective. The rim around the front and sides of the portico also looks done. Photos to come this weekend.

In other stalking news I saw boxes of tiles piled up in the hallway so I am guessing they are for the floors and he portico.

Laundry tub still in its box, so I am wondering if the wall tiles in there are done now if this will mean it will be installed next.

My understanding is the painting will happen next from reading other blogs, but also from checking out a house under construction down the street. Their wall tiles were done last week and now their painting looks finished. Good news too is they started about 1 month earlier but now looks only 1 week ahead.

With 2 neighbours in the street already moved in, 1 house set-up for the driveway to be laid and likely to mean they will move in by the end of the month, it will probably mean five (of 16) residences being lived in by the end of October.

The carpet and tiles

Went back to Lockwood's and took pics of the carpet and tiles, along with the samples of paint, bathroom floor tile and cupboard, kitchen cupboards and benchtop and just poking in the side the outdoor colourbond samples, which show the windows and facsia, and sort of the brick colour.

New layout and carpet and tile selection

Went and met SC today as I received the siting plan yesterday. How many times can these people make a mistake. So rather than try to communicate it by fax, I went in for an appointment.

Lets add a bit of width up front please, as it was lost from the length to abide be setbacks. The double door linen, too. But lose the colonial bar front window. Prove that the backyard is 4m deep. And I'm sick of paying for extras so forget the panel-lift garage doors, when I went for a drive around Spring Farm this morning I noticed other people have roller doors and they look fine. What I can't understand is the SC gave the Planners the same info that he gave us previously with a layout indicating the changes, figure it out folks, how the hell did they think they were going to fit a door double linen in the front hall unless the made the space wider (yes folks as we come into the Great Room I'll just ask you to turn side on and breath in as much as you can).

On a good note however I went and picked the living area tiles and carpets. All five bedrooms (well four beds plus study/guest room) are carpet and all living spaces and halls tiles. Went with a carpet called Green Beige, and a tile called Hayman, both in fact appearing like soft mushroom-beige type colours. The tile was difficult because originally I was going with laminate floorboards, but since the design comes with carpet and tiles inclusive, it doesn't make sense to pass that opportunity up. No pics as I forgot to take the camera, but once this house gets underway there will be pics. Not happy though as I also paid for my cruise today and am away two weeks in the middle of April, so I won't be around to crack the whip.