Can't believe it's been three months since handover, though technically we've only been living in here for half that time. Still little things to do here and there but we're settling in nicely and Rawson has been quick with our small list of rectification work. A plumber, an electrician and a carpenter were all on site yesterday to address minor items.
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| Hallway |
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| Display Home |
Actually waiting for Elba kitchen to do a shelf that we ordered on one of the niche (the smaller mirror one) that we stole the idea off in one of Rawson's other display home. No idea what's taking them so long, perhaps it's waiting on all the kitchen drawer fit outs, that we also ordered, to arrive.
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| Bedroom 3 |
The downstairs guest bedroom has been turned into a gym room (and temporary storage) for now.
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| Lounge |
Old lounge set and rug from our old place. The discolouration on the smaller two seater was because it was a warranty replacement four years after we had bought it. According to Plush, that's the same colour code as the three seater and somehow it's within their acceptable colour variation range. Might end up replacing them both with a corner lounge suite when there's sufficient fund. In no rush though, since these are still perfectly fine (except for the fact that they don't match).
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| Dining |
Dining room still feels empty and a buffet table has been ordered. It will sit right under the mirror. Perhaps the rug was a bit too small after all. Something else seems to be missing here. Can't quite work out what it is.
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| Alfresco from inside |
The curtains did not turn out how I would imagined it. It does look like it's protruding into the open plan living area now. Kinda reminds me of a hospital bed. Definitely have to leave it open rather than closed.
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| Alfresco from outside |
Our old dining table has a new purpose now in it's new location. The hanging egg chair used to be in our study and we really wanted to place it on the balcony but it didn't quite fit. Perhaps it turned out for the best, since it can now sit under the cover and away from the weather. Probably why it still look brand new all these years.
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| Home Theatre Sofa |
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| Home Theatre System |
New three seater lounge (really a six seater since each seat is almost 1m wide), entertainment unit, TV and rug.
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| Family Room |
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| Family TV |
The family room upstairs also got a new chase sofa and ottoman. There's even a small couch for the dog! The entertain unit was old but the TV was new. Still haven't painted the patch work next to the aircon controller yet. Only got around to the plaster and sanding it.
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| Study Left View |
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| Study Right View |
With the exception of the three drawers chest, the study was furnished with all existing pieces. The layout just looks a lot better now that it's all not cramped into a small space (maybe the configuration has improved due to the removal of the hanging egg chair) . Actually is very empty in the middle, and that is why we placed the large monkey cushion here. That used to be in our lounge room.
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| Bedroom 5 |
The old bed set has been relocated here. A matching dresser and mirror sits right opposite the bed.
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| Main Bedroom |
The reason for a new bed set? To upgrade to a king size! Managed to find a matching chair and foot rest too. Took a while to find bedsides and storage units to go with the bed. In the end we settled for these (the ones we liked were literally close to $1000 each, and similar ones online were even more expensive at $5000 each. Who pays this much for bedsides?). The old TV has also been demoted here.
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| Expensive Bedsides |
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| Main Bedroom TV |
The other two bedrooms (2 & 4) are still empty, though another queen bed has been ordered. No idea why we purchased it, since it's not really needed at the moment. I guess seeing a room empty, over and over again has that kind of effect on ya.
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| Garage |
Still a lot of junk in the garage. Heaps of foams and packaging material that I have no idea what to do with. At least the boxes can be dumped at the local recycling center (over half the garage was filled with flatten cardboard boxes before I dropped them off). Will take me months to crush and fit them to the recycling bin each fortnight.
