Shutters & Driveway!

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!

 

Main living area / dining

Main living area / dining

 

A spare bedroom (before the bed got pushed back)

Main bedroom (excuse the mess!)



Front Facade and driveway

Front Facade and driveway



Stunning sunset!