Thought I better follow up on the issues I had

I just want to say that I know I posted negeative things about the ensuite tiles. Geez was I on a rampage over those tiles but  I am happy to say that after living in the house our ensuite tiles look amazing. They match the feature tile beautifully. I like them better than the master tiles now that we are living there, they hide all the hair, not that I leave it there for long and they don't mark easily. The problem is they don't photograph well but IRL are beautiful.  Also the soap dish that I worried about doesn't even get noticed.

The concrete looks fantatsic(when clean, damn dirt) and the concrete path that the concreter created for us works perfectly well and looks great. I am very happy with the job he did.

The brick colour is much better now after the treatment and looks perfect. I am pretty sure the chips were fixed as well.

They were the only concerns I had with the house this entire build and none of them apply now...humblest pie being eaten.

The End

Well this blog was supposed to be about our journey building our new Casaview home not about us living in it so I guess this is the end.

You can follow our house transformation and that journey here.

Thanks for reading this blog and going on this fun and sometimes nerve wrecking adventure. Our builder was great but I won't be jumping in again any time soon.

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...finally!

Day 12

Today it's one week since we moved into our house. Day 12 since handover. 

The past two weeks (can you believe it) have been so busy and a bit of a blur since soooo much has happened.

Since my last post we have had air cond, fans, lights, intercom and a letterbox installed and that was in less than a week. Lots of action.

We had our official move on Tuesday of last week. It was such chaos...boxes everywhere, stuff everywhere. Toys and dogs and cats and cleaning our rental to contend with. It's a bit of a blur with aching bodies and late nights. We have so much STUFF it is ridiculous! We had a big clean out as we unpacked. Be brutal I said. If you don't love it or use it, let it go. We have so far given 5 boxes of things to charity. Five BIG boxes. Books, glasses ornaments, wall pictures, frames, you name it. I have also recycled three boxes of old magazines from as far back as 2007! What was I thinking storing those. What is even more ridiculous is the fact that we had a clean out when we moved to the rental. I'm a bit ashamed that we have so much that we don't need or use. Chloe has accumulated so many toys over the past year that she has two rooms! I have a Xmas layby for her and half of that is getting returned I tell you, the child has too much. One word...SPOILED. We are all spoiled!





Our letter box is in but all dirty here. Driveway got very dirty OMG. Thankfully all that dirt came off! Looks good cleaned up.

family room chaos

laundry chaos. We have installed a cupboard for all that cleaning who ha! Now we just need a clothes line.

master bedroom chaos

kitchen chaos. There is still a few bits floating around my kitchen that are unwanted. Like a box of tools.

I know we got rid of so much but we did have to buy new lounges for both living areas. We also bought a new book case to house all of Chloe's things. Otherwise our furniture has fitted really well. We are pretty much completely unpacked now and poor Michael had so many boxes to remove that he never wants to see another. Most of the rooms are looking tidy and we have a place for almost everything. There is still the odd thing here or there. We still have wall shelves, mirrors and pictures to put up. We don't want to be knocking holes in our lovely walls until we are certain.

Amongst all the chaos we managed to entertain my mum and aunt for Mum’s birthday, which was a great motivator for me. I took Chloe to my baby cousins birthday party and we had a swish lunch and rest day for Father’s day. Although that was after a hospital visit for me in the middle of the night. That’s another story.

The house is starting to look really nice. Well it looked really nice empty and then was filled with stuff so looked terrible and now it is starting to look really nice again. More photos will come soon.

fan up and bed made. Temporary sheet window coverings are up whilst we await our shutters. Which disappointingly have been delayed by three weeks. At least the sheets are white.

Outside view. Nope you can't see much. Oh and our outdoor front lights are here too.





The playroom has a nice sunny aspect which gives a wonderful vibe. We had to buy that shelf to house all her stuff. Mum bought the 1-2-3 poster for her new room.

The family room is coming along nicely. Again missing shutters. We bought a rug yesterday which isn't shown here.

This week our retaining wall is going up, in fact the timber section is almost complete. The fence is being done next week. Then we can get into gardening. Still so much to do. I can't wait to start the garden.