Dun de dun dun dun!

Wow look at our houses now nearly finished the flooring is in the final coats of paint going on the walls. Never quite thought we would get to this point but we have. We cannot thank everybody enough for their hard work.







Sabrina's Living Room



The kitchen door handles arrived as we had chosen different ones for each house and then could not remember who chose which. So we chose again from the selection of two that had arrived and these have almost been fitted.


Sabrina's Kitchen



Wright's Living Room







The flooring looks great another good choice Sabrina!




Sabrinas





We just have to finish the bathrooms with tiles, which we chose last week. Then the finishing touches such as door handles etc.






We still don’t have a functioning shed as they have delivered only one panel for the roof. I am pretty sure Stephen will soon have a heart attack the amount he has shouted at the man down the phone!


The shed was ordered from Homebase but supplied by a company called Mercia sheds. Homebase have apparently been inundated with complaints about the sheds. Not sure if this was just Stephens complaints or other people had complained to. So we have asked for a refund and for Mercia to come and take the shed away. Homebase have agreed to do so but we haven’t seen the cash yet so who knows what will happen? Stephen has told them to do it soon or he is taking a sledge hammer to the shed and taking the pieces into Homebase where I think he mentioned putting them somewhere obscure and discreet.

Don't be alarmed!

The grass is not looking so good!

Stephen and Nicola spent some of Saturday this weekend up the site sorting out the grass and patching it. We also had a visit from our neighbour opposite who saw Stephen out the front and wanted to have a look around. He was a nice gentleman who informed us that he had already met Sabrina.



Whilst on our little day out to our new house we also set off the alarm. Having never had an alarm before this was a steep a learning curve. We have also found out that you cannot get a mobile phone signal in the electrics cupboard inside the house. As while on the phone to Mark to sort the alarm problem Nicolas phone kept cutting out. With the instructions coming over the phone fast Nicola failed to keep up.


So this resulted in a call out to the electrician (Uncle Robin) who sorted the problem swiftly on his arrival. Something to do with trip switches, fuses and the alarm battery apparently.
 Anyhow the neighbours never came running to our aid, even if before this incident they were happy to nose around the house.


Inside things have moved on loads since the last set of pictures.


Firstly Sabrina’s place she has chosen some glass cabinets in her kitchen to display the china Nan has given her.

 

Sabrina's kitchen







She has chosen blue for the hallway which looks light and airy. I quite like it.
 

Sabrina's hallway

 

Sabrina's hallway



Sabrina’s living room painted in neutral colours.

 

Sabrina's Living Room





Sabrina's bathroom



Sabrina's En suite with heated towel rail





Nicola has not chosen glass cabinets in her kitchen as everybody who knows Nicola, will know her cupboards are usually crammed full of rubbish and she organises things in her own messy way. A good choice for somebody who is very organised in a scatty 'I’ll find that later' fashion.


Wright's Kitchen




Nicolas lovely pink living room wall as she has chosen pastel colours throughout the house the kitchen will be apple white. This picture also frames the pastel blue shed well I think.



Wright's pink living room



Wright's hallway



Wright's master bedroom



Wright's Hallway



Here is what was on the window is previous blog picture. The painting instructions of course!





Wright's second bedroom



The drive way is now finished!

Shedding it!

So the shed is up although we are still waiting for the roof . Stephen and Nicola had a little shed painting session last Friday night. Of course we were not allowed to paint the shed Cuprinol sweet pea pink so instead we opted for combination of forget me not  and barley wood.



concentration!



We have left a little space down the side of the shed for composting and water butts, very fitting for the eco friendly theme!




The grass is ok but still a bit patchy some of it hasn’t rooted well but there is still time to work on this and the grass has enjoyed the rain this week.

The boilers have gone in as have the outside taps.

The retaining wall out the front is finished.The drive is being block paved and looks amazing.

Still no photos of inside yet folks but apparently the pink in Nicolas living room looks good!


The furniture previously ordered is beginning to arrive and is being stored at mums house which is full to bursting with boxes!


So much to update each day! We are so close but still so many finishing touches to go.
Here are a few pictures of our new neighbourhood so those of you who don't know the area can see the houses look and how our fits into the look of the street. Look out new neighbours!

Let me shed some light on it!

At the houses things are moving along both inside and out and on Thursday night Stephen and Nicola have been to the site to await the arrival of the shed. This of course was a month late. We were delighted when we got the delivery time ‘Your shed will be delivered between 8am and 7pm’ we would like to thank Homebase for the quality service and convenient and precise delivery time. So we waited and as promised the shed was delivered at 7.10pm minus the easy fit roof which is of course out of stock! On the plus side the easy fit roof will delivered, we have been assured of this. The delivery driver suggested we fit the normal roof and then fit the easy fit roof over the top when it arrives. The system just seems so easy!

The lads have been building a retaining wall out of the front of the houses which looks fabulous and has made large flower beds for the girls to plant lots of plants. This will of course now require a lot of reading books and selecting appropriate plants and shopping for them. Nicola has been saving up her garden centre vouchers for ages and the first purchase will be the Worcester apple tree.



Turf after 1 day



We have acquired some turf and this has been laid in the back garden and at present is requiring a lot of TLC by the men on site. Mum has also sprinkled lots of seed on the brown bits and it seems to taking up residence slowly.


Turf after 1 day






Turf after a week

 

The plumbing is being fitted by Granddad and he is making progress. I will try and upload some inside pictures soon but haven’t taken any of inside in a while. Sabrina’s choice paint colours look good. The hallway looks spacious in Broadway blue.



Boiler Hole

 





‘Cats are dangerous companions for bloggers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of blogging avoidance.’


Found this quote and liked it, so thought I would share it.




The Tree in leaf.



No whining because we’re spending!

Sabrina and Nicola had a little trip to the site to see the colours we picked for the decorators going on the walls. We found lots had been painted in Sabrina’s house and the list of instructions for the decorators taped down for them to follow. From the photograph you can see our professional approach to writing instructions. Think the lads could just about make out Sabrina’s handwriting on the back of a Howdens catalogue.



Granddad was at the site and had fitted the downstairs toilet in Sabrina’s place. We found him hiding in Nicola and Stephens living room putting together the sanity wares. I’ve told Granddad he should read my blog! I fear that as he still completes his invoices on a typewriter he will never see it. Did you know you can still buy typewriter ribbon? Our cousin Jason orders it from the internet as you cannot source it anywhere else.

Thought I’d take a few shots of the wine cooler for my friends. I am sure that Rachael and Claire will be able to empty this in an evening. Sabrina has one too and will probably be stocking it with Rose for her friends. I think they like something more orangey to drink, or was that just their skin they liked orange after Sab and her mates had spray tans this week.

We have had a mad spending session on in the last of couple of weeks and frequented many shops to spend our hard earned cash and savings. We have brought everything and anything from Next, Ikea, Currys, Harveys. One of the shops we have visited many times is International Furniture in Andover we just like the price and the quality of the wooden furniture and the fact that is you ask nicely you get discount. It is a family run business and Sabrina has brought beautiful solid living room furniture in there for her place. Here’s hoping the cats don’t scratch that or the Guinea pigs down chew the leg of the coffee table like they did the last one.

Hilarys blinds rang after a week and have dropped their price by £2000. I’ll wait another week and see how much more discount they will give us then.