Beautiful Bricks

Visiting the Chateau this morning was so different to every other time we've visited in the past five months of the build. It is absolutely amazing how much difference a brick clean has made.

Our bricks look so beautiful. All those problems with the mortar and chipped bricks...not even thinking about that right now, the house looked amazing (well I think so) when we turned up and saw how nice the bricks was. It was lighter than what we've been seeing (and closer to what we originally thought we had chosen!) and it looked so crisp and, I don't know. I can't describe.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the pictures. I'm so happy happy happy with our choice of brick and our colours - probably the first time I've said that!

Cx

Beautiful clean bricks

Le Chateau

Timpelle delivery!

Internal doors (that first one looks funny - thinner than the others)

Skirting boards waiting...

Our cabinetry!

Rear of the house

Northern side of house (blind side)

Front - side view

Porch steps and piers

Bricking has Commenced

Despite the terrible weather we endured at the end of last week, Wisdom have still managed to kick off the bricking of our house - what an effort! We hadn't had a chance to see the house until yesterday afternoon, but I was expecting it to look exactly how we had left it last week so was so surprised to see some bricking has already started.

Took a couple of snapshots - they've mainly started on the side of the garage, bits at the front and a bit along the kitchen as well. Oh and our bricks look a THOUSAND times better than they did when they first arrived. Whether they were cleaned or the rain washed all the powder off...they look amazing I love them!

They've had that missing upstairs window delivered, and it is sitting in the room upstairs ready to be put in - our SS said something about it not fitting the frame but they'll be fitting it just before they brick that section.

We found it funny seeing that the theatre room appears to be the workers tea room - we found some chairs and an esky haha!

Our SS said that the ground floor bricking will be finished by the end of this week. Lets hope the weather holds out for us!

Cx

Main brick - Boral Escura Smooth Pearl Grey

Entrance

Foot of entrance

Front of the house - outside office

Garage

Kitchen

Back of the house

Found the cold point for the fridge

Tearoom/Theatre room!

Lego Delivered

Internal plumbing has started in the house, and we had the delivery of bricks for the ground floor yesterday. 

The bricks are a lot lighter than what we remembered! I'm a little concerned, I'm hoping that they just need a good clean or maybe they will weather over time to get their honey look that I've seen. 

We couldn't find the Brown bricks for the pillars, so maybe (and hopefully) they'll come in the next delivery. They re-completed the site fencing so we can't get back in anymore either haha! Just in time for those bricks I guess. 

They're expecting rain for the rest of the week, so I don't think they will start bricking until next week.

Cx

P.S Still no sign of that missing upstairs window...

Lego building blocks

Plumbing

Back to Bricks

Yes, we have changed our minds at the last minute!

I was about to send the signed off final variations last week...and I double and tripled checked everything...but the one thing that kept sticking in my mind were the bricks...

I love our colours, but I really wanted a smooth face brick. I just love the smooth look. We had already decided on the Escura Velour range though because of pricing, but when we were at The Ponds Display we saw some houses being built up and they were using the smooth brick. Ever since - I guess it's been stuck in my mind that I really really want smooth bricks!

So, we decided to get a new quote for the smooth range before signing the final variation.

Over the weekend, we visited Boral to have a last look at the colours as well so that when the quote came back this week we were ready to sign off, and we just both fell in love with the Smooth bricks! We decided to keep the same colours (Pearl Grey and Brown) but change to smooth.

I'm so excited about them! I've posted a couple of comparisons of the smooth and velour below. You can see how much of a difference it makes. And it's the EXACT same brick, just one side is smooth!

Escura Smooth Pearl Grey

Smooth (LHS) and Velour (RHS)

Cx