External Painting

There has been a bit of rain over the last week or so that has slowed down progress just a little bit.  Of course it's nothing compared to the floods in NSW and northern Victoria, but it was enough to delay the painters.  The end of this week has cleared up, and the final bit of painting was being done while we visited this morning.  In the big mass of decisions that happens at colour selection, we passed over these fairly quickly, and I had no idea how it would look.  Now with the result, I am absolutely delighted. 

In these pics the triangular section above the hip roof is yet to be painted, but will be the same cream with dark blue highlights.  The cream is the same colour as our garage door will be, so I can start to see how the whole facade will look.  We just need the scaffolding out of the way (booked for wednesday and thursday next week), and the garage roof on (booked for next friday)!

In the meantime we've been correcting a few positioning issues with the cabling and plumbing inside the house, so the delay hasn't been completely wasted.  I highly recommend that anyone going through the contract process makes sure that the heights of everything is explicity specified, as there is no side elevation of electrical positioning.  Don't assume that something is obvious, because if it's not in the contract, it's not their responsibility to do it that way.  For us, we missed specifying the location of the speaker cable - we have free standing speakers, so wanted the cable to run to the floor.  The electrician assumed we were installing speakers in the ceiling.  End result - our cable doesn't run where we said we wanted it, but it's 'correct' according to the plans, so they won't change it.  Oh well, you live and learn.  As my other half said, at least we didn't end up with power points in the ceiling...