Start of tiling

After a week of painting, it's now time for tiling. Delivery of the tiles, cement and grout arrived on Tuesday.

Pallet delivery of tiles

Stack of tiles

Tiles materials

By Friday the tilers have laid out the tiles.

 

Master ensuite tiled

Another view of master ensuite

Tiling done to one of the bathrooms

2 weeks update, painting week

It's been a while since we posted an update. This was partly due to the house being officially locked up, they have finally replaced the temporary front door with the actual door, so we can't get in without anyone working in it now.  Also, there are not a lot of work done these day, we have to go there coincide with workers working in the house at the same time to take any picture or know what had been done!

Before painting the house, they covered up windows and cabinets.

Cover up of windows

Cover up of cabinets

Interestingly, the painting of the ceiling was done by spraying the paint (2 coats) and 1 coat on the wall.  Then brush painting or roller painting was done on the wall and architraves for the 2nd & 3rd coats.

Spraying of ceiling paint

Internal doors painted and left to dry

Internal wall painting

As we checked out the front door, we were told by the painters that the door will be painted 2 colours, the internal side white colour and external side our chosen colour, Deep Indian Red. Hang on a minute! Why would you have 2 colours for a door? A door is a door, we selected a colour and we would assumed that it would be painted same colour inside and out. Anyway this is an issue we raised with the SS, he initially thought it was normal to have 2 colours but after hearing our comment, he agreed to have the painters paint it our colour inside and out.

I'll be looking out for it to be done properly.

Front door in question

Internal doors...

Progress has been slow in my option, there is only 1 guy to do all the architraves, doors and skirtings.

For the architraves, we chose the Regency 67mm style, it came out much better than we expected.

Architraves



Close up view of architraves

The picture below is a wierd in my opinion. With the window finishing all the way to the bottom, why would a piece of wood be nailed rather than the proper skirting?

I will add it to my issues list to raise with our SS.

Funny looking board

During that time, our spa got delivered. Can't wait to have it installed and jump in it :-)


Spa

On the outside they have installed the custom made mouldings to the study and cloak room windows. These are features as part of the facade, nice one!

Custom moulding outside cloak room

Custom moulding outside stury room

 

Woo hoo... cabinets are here

After the doors, it was the cabinets turn to be delivered and installed. What a sight when we came on site and saw the kitchen cabinets. It looked magnificent. The colours looked fantastic. The parchment colour for the cupboards and drawers gave a good constrast to the kitchen. The side panels for the island bench is smoky sapelle.


Kitchen view with island bench

Kitchen benchop, drawers & overhead cupboards

Moving upstairs, cabinets have also been installed in all the ensuites.

Master ensuite

One of the ensuites

Powder room

Laundry

Open sesame

Finally I get to see our real front door, the Madison 104 style. Currently there are 2 temporary standard internal doors locking up the house. Also delivered were internal doors and the architraves/skirtings. Due to budget constraint we decided to stick with the standard doors for all rooms, for architraves and skirtings we chose Regency 67mm style.

Installer busy at work

Back view is our front door