Updated drawings with extended garage + 'Store Room'

After weeks of waiting we finally received some updated drawings showing the extended garage, addition of the store room and of the window.

The reason for the 'Store Room' is to allow us to extend the garage to the edge of our block and still being able to meet the design guidelines of our estate. As I previously mentioned, it states that the width of the garage cannot exceed 6.6m.

Pretty happy with the outcome, especially with the additional window just hoping all goes smoothly from now on and the developer accepts this change.

Finally, we found a few errors in the drawings and the BC is working on getting those fixed.

Main Flooring

We have decided to do our own flooring in all rooms except the wet areas. The main reason is the cost to upgrade flooring with Porter Davis is very high and we do not want to settle for lower quality flooring.

Carpet was an easy choice for us, we went to Western Distributors (Highly recommend this place!) and within half an hour we had picked our carpet.

Tiles on the other hand was a massive PITA. We really couldn't make up our minds and when we did pick one it would end up being out of stock without an ETA on the next batch. We visited the following stores:

• Anytiles
• National Tiles
• Western Distributors 
• Tile Liquidators
• Beaumont Tiles
• Fox Ceramics

 Finally after weeks of searching we managed to make up our mind and decide to go with the Alpine Stone from National tiles. It's a full body porcelain. We put a deposit on it today and they have agreed to hold onto it for us until next year! Woo

Here are some photos of the tile and carpet. It's a very light grey tile, photos are not very accurate.

World Of Style Showroom

The past few weekends we have visited the new "World of Style' showroom. First impression is WOW! This place does not comparable to the old Hopetoun Interiors showroom. It is about 4-5x the size and PD have utilized that space to set-up lots of different displays. The range has also increased quite a bit now.

Bad news for us is that we will probably end up spending more, so many nice things! I guess that's the whole point of the new showroom... but hey we can no longer complain about the limited selection.

Anyways, even though we have delayed our colour appointment till September now, we have pretty much selected most our colours, flooring and tap ware.

Less talk more photos...