Bored Wating now

We still really have nothing to report. Despite our land going to title three weeks ago, our builder still don't seem any closer to starting. We are really not sure what the hold up is, but we are becoming very frustrated!

We have sold our house and will be moving into a rental for six months at the end of June. The thought of packing and moving twice in a year is horrible, but we wanted to sell our house before the real estate bubble burst and there was no time like the present.

Hopefully by the end of next week we will have started and I will have a picture or something to post.....

Are we there yet?

We are still waiting for any type of action on our block. We received a letter from the solicitor saying that our land won't settle now until April, two whole months late. This makes a site start date of April an impossibility now. We do however have our contract appointment on Friday, they decided against us having a tender appointment, because they had fallen a little behind. So officially on Friday we will know how much it will cost for all our extras.

Whilst we aren't any closer to our new house, I have almost purchased all the new furniture. We are not taking anything with us (except for the spare beds) and are buying everything new. We are fortunate to have a double garage because it is filling up fast with all the stuff. I have also bought 40, 50 litre storage tubs from Bunnings (they were only $8.95 each) to store all the new towels, sheets and homewares. I am having a different colour scheme in the new house, so I have decided not to take any of my old knick knacks either and my sister (who is also building a new place) and I are going to have a garage sale to get rid of everything we don't want. The hardest thing is looking at all the nice new things and not being able to use them.

We nearly have a road!

We headed down to the estate on the weekend and we were so surprised to see how many houses had gone up in such a short time. The road past our block was all dug out and we went for a walk and stood about where we will be living very soon. We have also decided that a trip to Bunnings to buy gumboots is very necessary. They have the cutest gumboots at Chanel, but I probably wouldn't want to get them dirty so may have to stick with plain and boring ones.
Apparently our soil test has now been completed and we are just waiting now to hear when our contract appointment will be. It will be good to finally have a final idea of how much it will cost and whether we have managed to stay within our budget!

We knew we were in trouble at the first meeting we had with PD, the first thing they ask you to choose is the facade for your new house. There are 10 to choose from, we chose the Urban, and were told, you will be pleased to know, that is the most expensive! Great, that didn't bode well for the rest of the conversation. S is super tall so we wanted to have extra tall ceilings, and therefore had to make some extra tall doors. We also wanted to extend the garage to fit in the fridge and other assorted things, which luckily fit on our block. We also will be keeping the extended Alfresco area, as our friends know we are not gardening people and are planning on decking as much as we can in the backyard.

We also wanted to make some external changes. We did not need a retreat in our bedroom (or to have to buy our 5th new couch) so we have extended the walk in robe in the master suite so the entrance aligns with the wall on the ensuite. We have also extended the shower in the ensuite so it is nice and big - the 33 shower is quite a bit smaller than the one in the 36.

We have also extended the pantry all the way so that the wall aligns with the edge of the kitchen. Giving us another whole side of benches. In the main bathroom, we have pushed the bath back into the void in the study, making that a totally square room.

We are building our new home with Porter Davis, the Illoura 33 +. We originally wanted to extend our townhouse where we are now, but after wrangling with the council for months we were looking at display homes for some ideas and fell in love with the Illoura, we bought land and signed our life away. Our land doesn't go to title until February and we have been booked in for an April site start. This seems so long away and we now can't wait to move in. We have made quite a few changes to the house, including extending the garage and the alfresco. We have decided that, as we plan on staying in this house for a long time, we are going to have everything we want and not scrimp. We know from experience it costs twice as much to put things in after you have moved in, so we are doing everything at once and getting it out of the way!