Always Waiting

Just a quick post to say we are waiting once again. Still need to get a quote from my brother in law for the build. He's on holidays though so not sure when that will happen. I was hoping to get the process started with council before the birth of the baby but that won't happen now.

Which brings me to the second thing we are waiting on which is the birth of our bub. I am really getting over it now and happy to be nearing the end of this pregnancy. Only 15 more days until I get to meet my little girl (and have a glass of wine!).

I did have piccies of more paint colours but my daughter has broken my phone so it will have to wait until it's repaired. Thank goodness my husband is handy at these things!

Screen Vs Reality

There is a reason why they tell you that colours may not be truly representative on your computer to the way they are in real life! Today I went to Bunnings to actually get some paint chips. I wanted to make sure the colours I was thinking of using went as nicely together in person as on screen. I'm so glad I did because I changed my mind about at least half. They just didn't look the same or go together as well as they had on my computer!!

I ended up grabbing a whole bunch of different ones in lots of shades of colours that I wanted so that I could just start the decision making again! It was so overwhelming looking at the colours and having them not be the way I thought or not be there at all.

I also decided to go back to my original colour scheme of pink and aqua for the girls room with the argyle style feature wall. Finding a green I liked that went well with the other colours I liked was impossible. My daughter is happy to go back with pink, aqua and white though luckily :) 

I came home and sticky taped together colour schemes I liked for certain rooms. I'll post them up next time so you can see how they work together. 

We also dropped around our plans to the brother in law (our builder) the other day. So now more waiting until we get the quote. Like everyone he commented on the bath in the bedroom :P Thought it was a cool idea though. Now fingers crossed the quote isn't too scary :D

Final Plans and Baby Date!

So we got the final plans last Monday. There were pages and pages of them. Building regulations have gotten so much stricter. Most of it was fine but he'd done the electrical plan without any consultation with us and as such had put down lights everywhere in the Lounge, Dining/Kitchen and a couple in the Master. I have asked him to remove most of them as I'm not a huge fan. We will just have 3 above the back bench in the kitchen and the two above the bath in the Master. I'm keeping the Lounge lighting the same as what we have (except I want to change the fittings) and we will have 3 pendants over the island bench. At the moment I like these ones from Bunnings:

 Then a large pendant over the dining table. again I have found a light at Bunnings I like:

He was going to get those changes done and back to me by the next day apparently but of course it's a week later and still nothing. I've paid him now though so I'd better get something soon!


In other happy news we have a date for my c-section. I had my midwife appointment last week and asked about some pain I had been getting around my c-section scar. They wanted someone  to check me over just in case so I had a lovely registrar check me and tell me to come in if it gets worse (haven't had an issue since though). Then she asked if i wanted to make my c-section appointment now instead of waiting until my 36 week Obstetrician appointment. Of course I did- I hate not knowing things :P So anyway, long story short we will be welcoming our 4th child on July the 6th :)

Draftsman

We had the draftsman come visit us a couple of weeks ago. He ran through a lot of the process with us which was great and gave us a rough estimate (which was several thousand cheaper than the other two places we'd talked to so YAY). I gave him an idea of what we wanted but have since changed it a bit (of course) because I realised I had estimated the size wrong and that it was too big for the block. Here regulations state any undercover areas can only make up 50% of the total land size including verandahs, sheds etc. So now the plan is to extend a bit out the back and then have 3 bedrooms upstairs. We will add the Lounge, WIR and Bed 1 on the ground floor. The upstairs will be above the new extension so that we don't have to worry about doing any extra structural work to the existing house to make it strong enough. The three eldest children will go upstairs and Bed 3 (which is currently our room) will likely become a Playroom. That weird spring in the corner is just how I draw spiral stairs :P

Ground Floor

First Floor

Also I received the cot and we have already set it up. it's in our room at the moment and there's not a lot of room. I am totally in love with the cot though still. Glad it was just as nice in real life: