Keeeeeeeeeeeeeys!!!!!!!!!

Well the day has arrived! On the left of my bundle here you can see I have clipped on my garage remote and the silver key is the one that opens our very own first home. Think I might have to keep the garage remote in the car so it doesn't get bumped accidentally, as I opened the garage door while we were standing in the kitchen, just by putting my hands in my pockets!

Here's our laundry filled with early morning light. It has new doors on the bottom cabinet.


All the linen doors were given another coat of paint as they were too dry. They look lovely and glossy now :-)


Stacker door in the kids' retreat. Had fun working out how to open and close them and seeing if the key fitted in the lock. We were just like kids, running around checking everything and playing!

Rangehood is in. It has nice little undercupboard lights in it, those and the one light above the island bench will have to do until we get our friendly electrician to light up the place like Vegas.

Not everything has been fixed but it will be very soon. The paint fix on the pantry doors was dodgy. The painter had just touched up a spot instead of painting the whole door, and as it's gloss paint, it stuck out like... well it was really obvious. Also a red dot remained in the WIR with a hole next to it, and the door jamb in the kids' retreat stacker needed another stain as it was obviously closed before it had a chance to dry last time. Our ss is getting the painter out today to fix all these things and we have it in writing. The saggy fence is also not fixed. We offered to organise it though and send them the bill. That's also written down in our post-handover agreement docs.

Our handover gift was apparently a BBQ set. I didn't even get the chance to open it. Chris spirited it straight out to the car! SS loved his cupcakes and gave one to each of the other SSs that drove past.

Such a strange and exciting feeling having the keys and watching the SS drive off, leaving us there alone in front of what is now OUR house. And even weirder that we had to leave and go to work! Wanted to stick around and keep playing. Alas, that will have to wait for now. Over the next few weeks we will be busy with carpet, driveway, blinds, shutters, appliances, heating, cleaning. Will post more pics as we get these jobs done, in preparation for the big move!