Its getting harder and harder to get into the house so we can check on the status of the work.

Today when we arrive the front door was locked, both garage and laundry doors locked and all the doors at the back of the house have been installed. Lucky for us the double doors at the back where only closed using a piece of wood jammed in the handle hole, pull the wood out and 'hey presto' we where in. What will happen when this has a lock on too is anyones guess.

What we are wondering is, why it will take another couple of months to complete the house.

We only need tiles and paint and its all done, so fingers crossed we are ahead of the target date.

The kitchen island and pan draws are fitted with the contrasting aubergine against the green doors. The dishwasher and oven will be fitted just before hand over that way no-one can steal them from the house.

The cabinets are in place in the laundry, although the wall mounted cabinets are a little on the high side (I can reach, but not the top shelf, so you can imagine for Giorgia). The steel sink is not yet in place. The next image down is a view of the butlers pantry, all the cupboards are in with the shelves sink and hob still missing.

The staircase is in place, this makes the entrance much lighter now the ladder has been removed. Its great that the staircase is made in real wood (although the treads have got protection on them). Now we will need to get a stain that matches the wooden floor when its put down up-stairs. Now the stair case has been built we can see exactly how much space is 'wasted'. We will get someone in to put a door in so we can at least use it as storage space (pity we can not get the guys doing the building to put it in for us). We could phone and ask !

From the top of the stairs looking towards the rumpus room. We got the plain rods we wanted for the stair rails (other options included too much pattern for our taste).

The laundry chute has now been installed, so we can throw our everything that need to be washed straight down to the laundry room downstairs. Its in an 'odd' position as we expected it to be against the other wall. The doors have now all been hung (still awaiting the handles). We went for a nice simple doors on all the rooms.

The outside of the house is now almost complete with the structure in-place for the garage roof. On the plans/contract is says the garage roof will be tiled, but I suspect it will be in colour bond (we will wait and see). One more week and hopefully the garage is complete.

The cabinetry is now in-place in the bathrooms, master bathroom with 'his' and 'hers' sinks and the rest of the bathrooms a single sink. Taps and wastes, toilets and showers still to be put into place. The bathroom floors still need to be made waterproof before we can lay the ties.