March 2011

The start of this month brings us our prestart appointment. After a month of looking at mountains of laminate, tile, paint, brick, roof etc samples......we were ready and organised. We had studied our electrical plan, marked all our intended changes on a copy of our plans, visited suppliers for larger samples we could take home, jotted down a zillion notes, filled in our prestart folder and along the way seemed to have all of a sudden noticed what every house on our street (and many other streets) used for their selections on their front facade.

All I can say is thank goodness we were organised!! A traffic accident on the freeway delayed our arrival at the office by about two hours, giving us around two and a half hours to go over everything......eeek! Our consultant was fantastic and obviously was very experienced. We were happy with how it went, but would have liked a bit more time. Our fantastic consultant was happy to help by giving us an extra week to go over all our variations and selections. All in all, I enjoyed the experience of looking at all the colour options, but very glad that part is over!!

I intended to take lots of pics while I was there, but there was just no time. So our selections will just have to be revealed as we go ;) But.....here is a pic of some of the many laminate samples we chose from. It's enough to send anyone's head spinning......

Anything else happen this month??......Oh yeah!!
Woohoo...we are officially the owners of our little slice of paradise =)

And we have a tap!

February 2011

Not much happened this month......paperwork and waiting!

Since there is nothing to read, I will give you something to look at......

The gorgeous golden bay just a short stroll away =)

January 2011

After a few years of moving here and there, the time was finally right to settle in one place and have a home of our own again. We decided we would like to build and started searching for land. It only took a couple of weeks of looking before instantly knowing we wanted this block.

836m2 of sand and scrub, 600m to a gorgeous bay, located in a quiet and small established beachside suburb.

 

This is also the month we signed a preliminary contract with Celebration Homes. They had a great plan with a layout we could work with, a few adjustments here and there, it will become a perfect little home for all 6 of us.
Here is the original plan (the before pic)......