The adventure of trying to make a house a home that we built for our family of six plus some craft, home décor, recipes & any family fun we might have.

Friday 6 July 2012

Our finished house...

So I promised some photographs of what the house looks like now that we have had it carpeted and tiled. We've put up a few sheets to cover the windows so the neighbours won't see us looking scary with our messy hair every morning and to also allow the kids to sleep to a reasonable hour instead of waking up when the sun rises.


Welcome to our entry I'm thinking of creating a gallery wall to show case all our precious memories and pictures of our family and our extended family.  I'm not sure of how I should go about this as most of the wall will be hidden from view. The hallway leads to the mud room and I think it would be a great place to display our pictures without it having to compete with anything else.


My kitchen which I helped design with my talented sister Renee. She is a draftesman and she also drew up the plans for the house to show Coral Homes what we wanted. It took Coral Homes four attempts to get the kitchen drawn up correctly even with the layout in front of them.



The dining room leads out to the Alfresco area so we should be able to enjoy early summertime evening meals as the heat is disappearing for the day. We were able to use the same tiles both inside and outside the only difference been the texture of the outside tiles are a little rougher.


I used a classic black and white colour palette for our ensuite because this will allow me to introduce other colours into the room with the introduction of accessories. I've purchased orange, purple and black towels for our ensuite and I'm looking for purple glass containers to hold our toothbrushes, soap etc. I've also got my beautiful wooden ladder to add to the room so I'm hoping everything comes together.


This is the kid's bathroom. My favourite thing in this room is the deep swimming pool bath tub I've had to go out and purchase a step so that the younger children will be able to climb into and out of the bath. The children's bathroom is mainly white with just a touch of black (Caesar stone benchtop and black feature tiles). Again I've got bright coloured towels to add a bit more colour into the room and I also have a wooden ladder for the children to hang their towels off.


To achieve a classic style means that I'm going to have to change the majority of our furniture. I want to try and add some small antique items into the decor so that there is a little bit of me in each area. Mr Opoes and I thought that having charcoal black carpet would allow us to use other colours to change up the decor whenever we get bored.


When the curtains are open you can see that the carpet is actually charcoal in colour but as I'm going to have a double curtain pole I'll be able to have some light been let through without it fading the carpet.

So I hope you have enjoyed the tour of our new little house. Here's hoping I'll be able to unpack, organise and decorate the house so that it looks classy while also been our family home.


Megan

8 comments:

  1. OMG - I'm soooooo jealous Megan!!!! Its just beautiful - love your kitchen - seriously!
    Really great - I cant wait to see all your decorating in full swing. xx Nat

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    1. Thank you Nat for your lovely comments. I'm now trying to get excited about unpacking everything. I also LOVE my kitchen and I hope that I'll be able to keep it pretty before the kid's can do any damage to it. I've just been off to Master's (it's like Bunnings)to purchase a rug for the kid's play room BUT hubby wasn't happy with what they've got so its back to the drawing board :( Enjoy your weekend xx

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  2. Such a gorgeous house!!! I'm totally jealous!

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    1. Thank you for your lovely comment Jennifer. I've only got 5 day's left before the kid's and husband move in.. maybe I should have allowed more time :) I'm a little worried I won't get around to decorating it what with all the unpacking I've got to do.... Enjoy your weekend xx

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  3. Wow - I love the black/white theme, normally I'm not a fan of ultra modern/contemporary, but I just love the black carpet - its a nice touch!! Can't wait to see you post some furnished pics!

    :)
    Annie

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    1. Thanks for joining my little blog Annie. I've had a bit of time off from doing my blog resently and I was ment to use that time to start decorating, organising and getting rid of all the stuff we don't need. But life has gotten in the way, we have had all the kids sick, lost of weekend activities and then there is just little old me who has to do it all. All the stuff is taking over my life so I'm going to re-group and TRY AGAIN. I hope that you stick around and see what I create. Thanks Megan xx

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  4. I noticed that all the walls in your home are painted white. That’s actually cool! It will give your home a sense of uniformity. White is a very pleasing and fresh color. It also matches quite easily with whatever furniture and fixture you want to put in your home. It won’t give a hard time decorating your home. ->Blair Construction L.L.C

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    1. Thanks for leaving a comment. I agree with you about the house having a sense of uniformity which will allow use to add colour with accessories & furniture. I am hoping to add some colour to our entry and the kid's retreat when we save a bit more money. Thanks for the encouragement.

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