the internal doors...

...have been delivered, along with the doors for wardrobes and pantry. We also have architraves sitting and waiting to be put up. Our eaves have almost been completed, however other than that, not a huge amount of work has been done over the last week.

the cornices...

Day 109: We have cornices up. We assume the inspection of the plaster by Boral went ok. Looking forward to seeing some cabinets going in! Hopefully sometime this week, fingers crossed.

the spa...

We head to Melbourne's Pool & Spa Expo today. Just for a browse... and ended up buying a spa! It's exactly what we were after! The show price was pretty reasonable, but we managed to barter down another $500 off that price too! We didn't get the standard blue colour, instead we followed our internal colour scheme of blacks, greys etc, and went with 'Pearl Shadow' with a cedar outer.

the kitchen (3D mock up)...

A wonderfully talented person has created a 3D image of what our kitchen will look like, including the colours. There's a few design flaws... only a tiny few... like the laminex feature on the kitchen bench comes down at the sides (so bar stools fit underneath)... and there's no bulk head over the over head cupboards. Other than that, it's pretty spot on...

the lock up...

Yesterday we received our 'lock up' invoice. The biggest of all invoices! Being 35% of the total contract price. We're not actually 'officially' locked out as yet though, as the external doors haven't gone on yet... this may happen today, or it may be next week. Our 1200mm pivot door is on order from a supplier in Sydney, it should turn up soon... it'll be exciting to see it on, instead of the temp door that is currently on.

This whole experience has started to get a little stressful. We haven't felt stressed since the finance part of it all early last year. Our build so far has been quite smooth, a few little issues, but our wonderful SS has been on top of everything. I think we're at the stage now where it's only a matter of months... well weeks really until handover. We're getting anxious and just cant wait to move in.