Waiting for settlement.

Settlement for land is meant to be the 27th of November, i have called the property conveyancing and asked it to be moved closer, so we are just waiting for a reply from the vendoors solicitor. Hopefully we can settle land asap, then the council approval can go in and then we should be able to go to site. I'm hopeing by the end of November, that give them a couple of weeks for site works and the slab before the Christmas break. This whole process take so long i wish we would have known what was going on so we could have taken less time on our end.

Bricks: I finally re found the photos of the same bricks being used on another build and they really aren't what i had in mind, i wanted a darker more chocolate brick. Hopefully they will look darker with the off white mortar in them.

I'm really unsure about the dune for a render colour, i think it looks to grey and too light, i think its easily painted though, so not too worried.

Final Documents sent, decisions made, now we just wait.

This is the last set of plans, everything is right except for laundry door.

Sent off all our paperwork for bank, conveyencers and the PCV to builder

Changing to exposed aggregate driveway, mixer taps in bath and shower, off white mortar. Now that its all finished i'm wishing i would have made a few little changes, like adding 2 wall lights to the portico and another couple of tv points. We will be getting the Home theatre room wired up so i'll probably get some cat5 and tv points put in then. I also want to change my handles for the kitchen cupboards they no longer have the bar handles that i want so we chose like a satin curved one, but i don't really like them, and would prefer to mount them horizontaly on cupboard roors. This was all the choices we had.

Still lots to think about even though the big decisions have been made.

Hopefully our next drive out to the Block in a couple of weeks we may see some action. I think it still needs to go for estate approval and council. Wish they could give us a date for site start. Its all getting very exciting now.... waiting is killing me.

We had our coloutr appointment today, met with out colour consultant at 9.30 am and i think we got out of there just after 12.00.
I knew i would be indecisive but it actually wasn't too bad.

There are only a couple of things that i'm not sure of, such as the colour we have chosen for our bricks, they just look a bit too light and there isn't much colour vatiation. Would be good to see it on a house. Off white mortar should look good with them though.

Happy with the rest of the exterior colours, dune and paperbark, and charcoal roof tiles. Also having aggergate driveway. I would just love to see it all together now.

Interior we are having

walls: wattyl Kid Leather

white ceilings and architraves

Pearl dust kitchen cupboards with an Osprey Cesar stone bench top. white tiles (as in pic) for kitchen and laundry splashback.

Bathroom cupboards are going to be pearl bisque with ginger Ceasar stone bench and a brown 400x400 floor tile. (its called Chicago Khaki)

they probably took the longest to decide on because there was nothing there that i liked. everything had a pattern going through it and was too light.

Recieved another set of plans and variation quotes via email on 12th Sep. Still a few mistakes so emailed back yet another list, basically the same as the one i sent ages ago. Hopefully they get it right this time, its just causing so many delays, we could have stated by now.

So firstly here are the photos of the block, titles have now been released

Pretty boring, just a flat piece of land. Not much of a nature strip But we do have nice vacant land across the road ( until they divide it all up and it gets built up also.