Tender

Had our Tender yesterday and they had a few mistakes on the documents but was easily fixed up. We had to upgrade the balcony doors to either french doors or wooden sliding doors which was a Williams Landing requirement (u aren't alowed any aluminium balcony doors)so orginally CH quoted $1200 for french doors and I told her I really didn't want to be spending that kind of money on the doors as I didn't really care to much about them and plus I was already paying another $2500 for council requirements which I'm not to happy about. I would rather spend the money elsewhere but we noticed on the display home they only had timber sliding doors so we were able to change it but I still have to pay $550. Also the house set back was wrong they had a 5.6m set back when I wanted 4.5 m setback to maximise te backyard, so that had to be changed. And just some other minor thing but altogether we spent abou $20,000 on extras including the refridgerative cooling.
So in a few weeks we just need to sign the contracts and pray that our land we be titled and ready on time. As they told me if it is then they will be finished before Christmas (unbeliveable).

Land is nearly ready Yipee!

We can now drive into our street and past our block of land. Finally. We have a gum tree on left of our nature strip and a street light on our right. I also noticed that the next door neighbor will be building his garage right next to ours as there is a double driveway, not sure if that is a positive or a negative thing yet we will see.
Picture at top is the proposed train station that is suppose to be finished by now but haven't even started yet. Hurry up!.

Color selection appointment

Though I was looking at a really long and stressful day, I was told I would be there from 9-5pm with an hour break for lunch, but I was finished by 12.30pm.

I had a great consultant very helpful.
First was structural plan, I added a cavity sliding door to the ensuite and rumpus rooms.
I altered the 2 windows in the bathroom.
Added added an extra bench and cabinets to the laundry.

Secondly was the electrical plans. I added 38 down lights to downstairs, sensor light to the garage and the back of the house. A few tv points, telephone points and electrical points.

And two features lights outside on top of the balcony.
Then was the bricks, my first choice was the fawn and 2nd was Nougat.

Render-pale earth, beige royal and ricochet.

Roof tile was barramundi. Aluminum windows are Anodic grey.

Gutter, fascias , garage and front entry door is Dune.

Kitchen- went with ice snow stone benches, starfire

splash back colour doe, polar white laminex cabinets and frost polar white perspex doors.

Overall It was a great day I really enjoyed it. Now I cant wait to see It all come together. But I still have to get the prices. My tender will be this friday hopefully I didnt go over board.

Confused.

2 days till my colour selection appointment and I'm not sure which brick I will put as my first preference Austral Brick Ash or Fawn. It so hard to make a decision when u can't see what it looks like beforehand. Grrrr.

Anxious

Can't wait till Friday which is the colour selection appointment. I'm ready lock everything and get the ball moving. yeah!

Colour Browse

Master bedroom near balcony (above)

Ensuite (above)

Master bedroom (above)

Bedroom 3 (above)

Bedroom 2 (above)

Bedroom 1 (above)

TV area upstairs(above)

Rumpus room (above)

Family room (above)

Kitchen (above)

Dining room (above)

Lounge room (above)

Entrance (Above)

study: Above













Today we went to the Spectra and we able to look at brick colours, carpet colour, tiles etc for the home. Ii was soo overwhelming and soo hard not to upgrade everything. Saturday 10th March 2010.

Even more excited

Today we were able to sit down with the sales consultant and go through the extras and what was standard in home. Saturday 27th March 2010

How exciting, finally found a house we like.

After looking at display homes for about 6 years. Finally we were able to fall in love with one and able to have enough courage to put a deposit on one.
The pink cross on the 1st picture is where our land is and the second picture is of the town centre of Williams Landing which is will be across the road from us. Thursday 25th March 2010.