It has been a while between posts, again! A few major things (OK,
major in my opinion!) have happened such as plantation shutters have been
installed and our driveway has been poured, yay! Was a bit of a debacle and
drawn out process with the driveway because of the sewer pit but we got there
in the end. It looks fantastic. The pics I am posting are before the tint seal
went on so the colour is now much darker than what it is in these photos, but
you get the general idea anyway. It’s like a charcoal colour, I love it and it
seems the norm around our estate.
I am in love with the plantation shutters! Very happy with
them. After my disappointment with the double roller blinds (the flimsy openers
etc but I have gotten over it now and don’t even notice it) I was kinda
dreading the shutters but I am pleasantly surprised, they look great and
actually make our little house seem a bit more spacious due to their sleekness
and the bright white colour. I rather enjoy pulling up into the driveway and
looking at the shutters that are on our bedroom window, it makes the façade look
that much more beautiful. Now all we need is all the landscaping to be finished
and we’ll be good!
Landscaping is a whole other thing. It’ll be at least
another 6 months til that will be all finished if all goes to plan (and how
often does that happen?!) but I like to think that 6 months is realistic
anyway. We have to do retaining walls – another ongoing saga but we have
FINALLY submitted to council for the second time. Actually our Engineer did, we
asked him to do it for an additional fee as we didn’t want to waste more time
if we were to get rejected again. So that was lodged 3 days ago but I can’t see
us getting approved before Christmas, so it’ll be well into the new year I’d
say. But we are going to order all the blocks soon so we are ready to rock as
soon as we get that approval. The only thing we can probably get started with
in the meantime is the decking of the alfresco and maybe the front patio, still
deciding on whether we are going to get a concrete path leading from the
driveway to the patio or not. It would only be small and regardless we will
still deck the patio, but how it all gets done depends on whether or not we
concrete a front path. But the decking won’t depend on the retaining walls
whereas turf and gardens will so that will all have to wait until the retaining
walls are up. We will also do a concrete path around the dead side of the house
but cannot do that until our neighbours retain, but again that won’t be for a
while because A) they haven’t finished building yet and definitely won’t be in
before Christmas and B) we cannot expect that they will do their retaining
walls straight away and I don’t blame them – as we have discovered all of these
things take time!
So here are the pics of the shutters which also shows the
front of the house with the driveway (pre-tint seal). Plus one of a beautiful
sunset we had last week!
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| Main living area / dining |
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| Main living area / dining |
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| A spare bedroom (before the bed got pushed back) |
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| Main bedroom (excuse the mess!) |
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| Front Facade and driveway |
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| Front Facade and driveway |
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| Stunning sunset! |
