Fun stuff...Fixtures...Fittings

I realised I posted photos of our colour selections yesterday but didn't list what our selections actually were, so if you care, read on!

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Roof - Colorbond Dune
Fascia - Colorbond Surfmist
Gutters - Colorbond Dune
Windows - Surfmist
Water Tank - Colorbond Dune
Bag n Paint (to front facade only) - Taubmans Twiggy
Bricks - Austral Everyday Engage
Garage - Caoba

Internally, I don't remember what the name of our selections were! All I remember the names of are our walls (Taubmans Stonebridge for the main areas of the house, and in the wet areas it will be Taubmans Tombstone). Our flooring will be Gerflor Creation Clic in Deep Forest colour which McDonald Jones will be doing for us as their pricing was quite reasonable, but we will be doing carpet after handover.

Other things we will be doing after handover is driveway and window dressings. No idea what colour driveway or what type (probably just coloured concrete) however window dressings we will be getting plantation shutters for the whole house except for the stacker doors, which will be the double roller blinds where one is sheer and the other completely blocks.

Our kitchen is where we went crazy $$ wise because we wanted a kitchen we felt inspired to cook in. I have always dreamt of having a beautiful shiny white kitchen, so that is what we have gone for. Cupboards are 2-pac polyurethane, high gloss. No handles, we got the shark nose option instead of push to open (though we got push to open in the bathrooms to save a bit of $$). We also opted for the under bench bin as well as 2 x banks of pot drawers. We got the Lin 1 door with translucent glass panel for our pantry door and a long vertical chrome handle on the pantry door (can't remember the proper name for it!). We upgraded to the melamine shelving in the pantry, as well as the rest of the house (as you cannot only upgrade to it in one area of the house, it's all or nothing! Which is fine because we wanted to do that anyway - not a fan of the ventilated shelving and didn't want to worry about it after handover). The splashback colour is a similar colour to the translucent glass in the Lin 1 door - best way to describe it really!

Island bench is Caesarstone Osprey, we have increased to 40mm with waterfall edges. We also upgraded the tap to a Tecknobili vegie sprayer.

One of the promotions they had at the time we put our deposit down was the free Smeg appliances upgrade, so we are getting the 900mm freestanding cooktop / oven, as well as rangehood (which we are getting ducted) and even a microwave and dishwasher! Pretty happy with that, I love the Smeg brand.

Another promo was a $4K discount on the Derby ducted air conditioning system. There is a lot of controversy and mixed reviews around this system however we aren't big aircon users so it will do. We will be getting ceiling fans in all bedrooms so these will be used first and foremost - aircon has always just been a back up for us which has been when we are desperate, which is usually just a few times per year. We will also buy a gas heater to keep us warm in winter.

We also had the Impressions Package thrown in for free which was great as I would have been more than willing to pay for it anyway - it is great value!

We have chosen to have mirrored sliding robes to the bedrooms. For the master bedroom we have upgraded to the Lin 1 translucent glass doors for the WIR and ensuite, only because we had a little bit of money left in the budget at the end of colours so thought we'd add a touch of luxury to our room! We also had some shelving / drawers added to our WIR.

Bedroom 3 has been extended by 450mm just to make it slightly bigger than the original 3x3 size, and we have a TV pop out in the main living area just to create a bit more space as that area is quite small in the Nova so every little bit of space helps. Another little thing we did to create more space for storage is we had the ensuite vanity moved over to abut the ensuite wall so that we could fit a shelf unit in there next to the vanity. I will be all about the storage in this house because it isn't huge so I will be very storage conscious! It does have a very decent size linen closet though so I am happy about that.

Electrical we mainly doubled the amount of powerpoints (and they are all double powerpoints too), got lots of downlights, pendant lights for over the island bench in the kitchen plus a larger pendant light (same style as the kitchen ones) in our entry hallway. We also got an alarm system.

Flyscreens, chrome lever door handles were also an added selection plus in the bathrooms we have the 2-pac polyurethane high gloss cupboards with push to open for the drawers and cupboard doors.

I think that is it! Ciao for now...

PS - Still no pegs! They have until tomorrow so we will wait and see!