A week has passed and we have been told that within the month (by the end of September) the house should be complete and will be handed over to us.

The mirrors have been installed in all the bathrooms as have the shower cubical's, the bathrooms are complete.

In the mud room the ethernet cables from each bed room the study and TV points all come back to this point. Now I need a patch panel, and a 16 way switch, that way everything we have digitally (music photos, video's etc) can be seen from any TV and computer in the house. As well as each computer having a wired connection.

The staircase as it should be not painted green, just wood the way we intended it to be.

The space under the stairs will be utilised as extra storage space (suitcases, vacuum cleaner etc). We will need to get a carpenter to put the door in for us when they have replaced the plaster work.

Waiting for the stain on the stairs (Nordic Teak)

Some vague running repairs on the plasterwork and walls and retouching the paintwork.

I know it looks kinda strange, a photo of the toilet, but notice the seat is neither up nor down. Both the seat and the lid are soft closing so there will be no banging of the toilet seat/lid during the night !

One more of the outside with the back garden just to show the sun shining in Melbourne.

Now we (me) have to start thinking of drainage pipes in the back garden as the soil is quite heavy clay, without digging pipes into the soil to help drain garden it will just be a boggy mess. As its too late this year to plant the garden up I will spend a lot of the time digging a lot of organic material, gypsum, bone&blood into the soil to get it ready for the 2012 season.