This is the architrave profile we have selected for the arch's and skirts, very happy with the choice.We called into the house today to grab some more photos and for me to check the paint job in natural daylight. Again, it is really hard to see the true colour in these pictures, the one in the garage is probably the best indicator. The photo with all of the doors looks very yellow - which it isn't.
The painters have done the ceiling white and one coat of the wall colour and it is looking great!Now that there is paint on the wall I can see what a great job the plasterers have done. It did look very straight and neat, but with paint on I cannot see any joins or waves in the ceilings or walls - well done fellas!
I think in this photo you can see the true colours. All internal walls are being painted in Wattyl Porcelain in a low sheen finish. This is a fairly neutral colour and we will add some feature walls after hand-over. We didn't get the builder to do these as we could not decide on what we wanted! Anyway, it is not going to make or break them if we don't use them for this. We will also let the kids select a feature wall colour for their bedrooms (with a bit of guidance).
I have put a few photos of the outside so that you can see how it is all going. In the daylight I could see that it has only had one coat of paint.This photo shows our exterior selection, the tiles are Boral Macquarie in a colour called Ebony. The gutters and fascia are painted with Wattyl Sunfast in Colourbond Paperbark (used to be called Marino). The bricks are Boral Settler Sandstock.
We are really happy with our choices and how it has turned out :-)
When I had a look inside, I was very impressed to see that there had already been a start made on the items identified in the inspection report. I noticed some of the fit-out work that I was not totally happy with, but I will talk to the supervisor before I go blogging about it. To me it would be fairly easy to fix and I could be premature to complain about it. But, on the other hand the supervisor has said if there is anything that bugs me it is better to ask.
Supermum says I don't close off the blogg properly each time and it just sounds like I stop mid-paragraph. So... ummmm... 'May the force be with you' .....
3 comments:
Lookin' fabulous, guys! On the home stretch, ey! Wooo!
Hey guys - it's looking great. Your gutters and fascia is a great colour (says me who is bias because that's the colour we have!!!).
Re your question on our blog about getting straight lines on the feature walls. We did a pretty good job we think, there are just a few touch ups that need fixing on the cornice where I went a little bit too far with the roller. Woops!
John was crowned the 'cutting in' king, and I was the 'roller' queen. John learnt very quickly that the trick to cutting in and getting a straight line was to actually gently push your brush against the edge, rather than sweep down the corner in one motion (it's really hard to explain). You get a jagged look to start with but when you go over it the second time it evens out. Then you just have to get the roller as close to the edge as you can without touching the other wall!! After 7 walls and 2 coats each we got pretty good at it.
On the red wall there is a bit in the middle that I'm not happy with but you can only see it when you stand on a certain angle so we are just going to leave it. If it really annoys us we will stick a picture over the top or something!!
Anyway, hope that helps a bit. Your place is looking fantastic.
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Wow. Its almost a tale of two cities.Here you are at week 12 with the house painting well under way,no problems with plaster or brick to speak of, yet here we are going into week 17 with an inspection report containing three pages of defects inside and out,and the painting hasn't even looked like starting :-(
Your place just shows what we thought we could expect.Oh well tomorrows another day ;-)
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