Reconnected

Well, we're back in the land of the blogging!  Our internet was connected very quickly, which certainly makes a lot of things easier (namely, work!).

We have moved in to the house, albeit with just concrete under our tootsies!  The carpet has been scheduled for installation on Wednesday, and the flooring should arrive on Friday.  Having said that, Carpet Call has not returned any of our calls nor e-mails since last Tuesday, so it remains to be seen whether or not laying/delivery will, indeed, occur.  Suffice to say, we won't be call, call, calling the 'experts in the trade' ever again.  Neither will any of our friends.

Anyhoo, all that rubbish aside, we have enjoyed the first few days in the house.  I love the kitchen, bathrooms and laundry particularly.  Ha, you can tell where I spend most of my time!!!  The Great Room is also feeling more spacious WITH the furniture in, which I love.

It has been crazy busy around here, with lots of projects on the go.  Here are a couple of teasers...

Big Girl's Room

Little Girl's Room.  We started off strong, but haven't made any progress in the last five days!!!!

Without a floor, we have been unable to unpack to much, let alone style ANYTHING at all, so these photos will have to do you for a while.

Hopefully, I'll be able to share some pics later in the week.  Have a great one!!

The calm before the storm

Last week, Husband and I were lucky enough to attend a wedding at Mission Beach in Far North Queensland.  I wasn't going to post about it, as I thought there'd be heaps of fun house stuff to blog about this week...  But, alas, yesterday was a hell day and the flooring drama is ongoing so I thought I'd share some photos of a super fantastic, blissful, (at times messy) weekend...

I love the juxtaposition of the sugar cane against the palms.  One of my favourite things about FNQ.

Palm Cove = LOVE!

Breakfast at Palm Cove - so much more relaxing and tasty when you're not chasing after three small children! 

We stayed at Castaways at Mission Beach, which was the location of the wedding.  Lovely!

  

The locals love the Cassowaries!  We saw one, but it moved off into the bushes too quickly for me to snap a pic.

The view from our room.

The view across to Dunk Island.

The kind of photo I was sending to friends during the wedding reception.  Yep, I told you it got messy!

We went for a walk on the Mamu Rainforest Canopy Walk, just outside of Innisfail.  So awesomely amazing!

The cantilever walkway and the view from the end of it.  It was a bit bouncy at the end!!

Today, we're off to wrangle Carpet Call and try to sort them out.  If not, we'll be living on concrete until mid-next week, and potentially beyond.  We'll also be painting and wallpapering, so there may yet be some nice house photos to share later in the week.

Happy Wednesday all!

Little Girl's Chair Reveal

So, it's taken a while for this little project to reach completion, but finally we've done it!

BEFORE:

 

DURING:

  

  

AFTER:

I'll be able to show you some styled pics within the next couple of weeks, because, today, we got the keys to our house!  Woo hoo!  It's all ours!

Now, to sort out some supply issues with our flooring...  More on that later.

PS: Thankfully, Husband ALWAYS ends up taking over my DIY projects.  Love that man!!!

Flooring

Today we returned to the flooring shop, having decided to place our order for a laminate floating floor.  After all our to-ing and fro-ing about bamboo, engineered hardwood and laminate, we returned to our first ever love - the laminate!

We've done laminate timber in most of our houses, and it really is extremely durable and child-friendly.  It also helped that we found the perfect colour to go with our carpet, wall colour and overall decor plan for the house.

So, without further ado, here it is (up against the fancy carpet)...

Parador Trendtime 6 Laminate Flooring in Oak Castell Smoked Brushed Texture.

Carpet Call at Alderley did a great deal on both of the carpets and the main flooring, so if you're in the area and in need of floor coverings, check them out!

In other news, I've been decluttering and clearing out like nobody's business.  Vinnies will be happy with their loot tomorrow, I'm sure!  I hope you're having a great weekend!

Carpet

Hey there, sports fans!
(Yep, a bit tired and overly cheerful today)

Today, we chose the most glorious carpet I have ever laid my eyes feet on!

Now, given the price and overall lushness of this carpet, we are only installing it in our room, the Study and the Lounge Room.  The kiddlies are having a much more reasonably priced (read, cheap) carpet in their rooms.

But look at how well the colours work together.  Back to my same/same, but different philospophy.  Similar colours, just varying textures.  Love it!

Of course, we started out just browsing, but figured since we had found exactly what we wanted, with all sorts of discounts, that we should just go ahead and put a deposit down.

So, that's another task checked off the list.  We just need to make a decision between bamboo, engineered timber and laminate for the main floor.  We've also been working on our landscaping plan over the last couple of days, but I'll share that in another post.

I hope you're all enjoying 2012 so far!!

PS: We also visited a puppy shop (as a treat for the kids after carpet shopping) but didn't make any purchases there!!