Some of the light fittings...

We are trying to get as many products sourced locally in Tasmania as we can. Some, however, we will have to get shipped from the mainland or from overseas.
Following on from the two day workshop at the JAWS Architects Office, these are the light fittings we can confirm will be going into the house, and which we know we can get from a local lighting supplier Casa Monde:
In the bathroom...the light fittings for the basins couldn't be obtained by Casa Monde, but we could get the heater:


IXL Tastic Neo Heater Exhaust in Silver

 Then in the Living Room areas we have:

Brilliant Galaxy 54" Timber Fan in Antique Bronze with timber blades

There is also a lot of LED strip lighting throughout the house, particularly in the Living & Kitchen.
In Viktoria's Studio, the main light is:

Emac & Lawton Brassiere Overhead Lamp in Rust

 And in her window-seat, reading area there will be a small wall lamp:

Emac & Lawton Seattle Spot Light in Antique Silver

 For the main bedroom, there is again some feature LED strip lighting, as well as a wall reading light:

Emac & Lawton Lincoln wall sconce in Antique Silver

 And to circulate hot air downwards, or to cool us on those rare balmy nights, there is also a ceiling fan in the bedroom:

Hunter Pacific Aurora II in burnt copper (not pictured) with black blades

And so we can see what the cats are up to at night time, in the cat garden there is some low wall lighting:

Oriel Lighting Konis Tex LED wall light in Graphite

 All down the concrete hallway, we have these wall lights (Australian made too!):


Robert Kitto Magill wall light in antique bronze

And the final (confirmed) fittings are the exterior sensor flood lights (which look like they actually come with laser weaponry...)

Crompton Lighting LED Sensor Floodlight

We did have a front door light picked out, but Viktoria has decided that most entry lights (that operate on sensors) are fairly uninspiring and/or ugly. So we may have to go down the route of picking out an exterior light we like, then rigging it to a separate sensor (which we were trying to avoid).
Sadly, we have been having a few dramas with the access stairs to the mezzanine... it has been a very frustrating & drawn out process, thus deserving of its own entry... but at the moment it's been a bit too exhausting to put on page.
Suffice to say, the end result is that it looks like we have lost our mezzanine, because the Building Surveyor would not sign off of the access stairs (unless we were to make them a completely unmanageable size for the dimensions of the room). But more on that later.
And more also on the rest of the fixtures we have agreed too... and soon some drawings from the architects showing some of the interior details.
Early 2014... we should begin to build....
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Choosing house fixtures & fittings... and lots to do

Who's been really really slack at updating their blog? Could it be us???
Things are still going along, with hopes to have the Building Application submitted before Christmas.
Building Surveyor, Nigel Grice, managed to get some sort of commitment from the local Council that we would not be held responsible for upgrading the access road. We're sure he thought we were quite batty persisting with this as we did, but it's hard to shake off that mainland paranoia that comes from dealing with regulatory & legal bodies every day (as Viktoria currently does).
Council have confirmed (in writing) that the road leading to our property is a “Council formed Road”; therefore in accordance with the Building Code of Australia it would not be considered a “private access road” and there is no obligation for us to upgrade it to meet the requirements of the Bushfire Management Plan.
In addition, Viktoria has recently returned from (yet another) lightning trip to Tasmania, where two days work shopping the fixtures, fittings & electrical layout were spent at the JAWS offices. Contrary to popular opinion, this was actually quite stress-free and fun (for Viktoria, at least, though she may have left a few architects twitching at the mention of her name). 
A lengthy wish list has been left with a local Tasmanian lighting supplier, Peter at Casa Monde. We would like to use Tasmanian companies as much as possible, but there are a few...ummm... odd items on the list which he may not be able to source. Once we have it firmed up, we'll post some pictures of some of our "star performers". Hopefully we won't have to shop anywhere else.
Viktoria also has a bit of drawing to do, as we are hoping to integrate a "disintegrating" pattern into part of the block work (based quite ludicrously on a ceramics exhibit... but we're sure it can work on a [much] larger scale... with completely different materials... anyway, Neal-the-Architect build a scale model and it worked there).
In the meantime, all the hard and technical work around plumbing, structure, power, etc have been left with Neal-the-Architect and Catherine-the-Architect.
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