Change of plans, change of builder, from the original post.
We've put a deposit down for house and land in the estate we originally wanted to buy in. Very hard sourcing land it just gets snapped up so quickly. We decided to go with a 576m2 block and put a 27m2 house on it, we will have about 6 m to the back and 6m to one side around the alfresco. We made a few changes to the plan, and added a walk in pantry which goes through to the garage. and also put a big robe in the study. Doors on the theatre room and added the alfresco to the side.

It's all coming along with the plans and changes, title release on the land isn't until June so a bit of time to keep saving.

This photo shows about how much back yard we'll have.

So the settlement will be before the financial year ends, and we could begin building in July if all the building contracts etc are done. So we should be in our house by christmas as construction only takes 4 months.. Fingers crossed everything goes to plan with finance etc.