We have furniture coming out of our ears.....Furniture that we placed an order on in October to be made in January (now), which were to take about 3 months to make, then would be held for a month, have....you guessed it....turned up NOW!!
This now means that we have to get an extra storage unit to put it all in....more money..
All this and still not a start date in sight for our house....guess we can take all the furniture down to the block and live on it :)
Friday, January 29, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
More Shopping
To continue on from the previous post with our shopping....
I like to be organised, I'd like to think that we have got just about everything we need for the new house with the exception of window furnishings and rugs....the latter we will buy once we've moved in, as I'd hate to get the wrong size for the rooms.
So, what have we acquired you may ask.....lets see
A lounge suite...for the family room - currently we have two 2 seater couches which neither Tony nor myself can sit it, so Kelly is taking them and putting them into her sitting room.
A couch and 2 slingback chairs for the lounge.
A 4 seater home theatre entertainment suite.
2 wing back chairs for our parent retreat.
Coffee tables, lamp tables, entertainment unit for various rooms.
Lamps, mirrors, lighting for the whole house, vases, ornaments.
2 Bar stools...yay, we finally have a bench to sit at.
We bought a eight foot mirror for our dining room off my step-brother...it is so big and HEAVY, currently it is at my mums, we did have a beautiful wall unit with cupboards on top, unfortunatley it didn't fit into the new house so my friend bought it off us and i'm pleased to say that it looks great in her house, so i still get to see it, we will be purchasing a extra long buffet to go under the mirror, this we will order with in the next few months.
I like to be organised, I'd like to think that we have got just about everything we need for the new house with the exception of window furnishings and rugs....the latter we will buy once we've moved in, as I'd hate to get the wrong size for the rooms.
So, what have we acquired you may ask.....lets see
A lounge suite...for the family room - currently we have two 2 seater couches which neither Tony nor myself can sit it, so Kelly is taking them and putting them into her sitting room.
A couch and 2 slingback chairs for the lounge.
A 4 seater home theatre entertainment suite.
2 wing back chairs for our parent retreat.
Coffee tables, lamp tables, entertainment unit for various rooms.
Lamps, mirrors, lighting for the whole house, vases, ornaments.
2 Bar stools...yay, we finally have a bench to sit at.
We bought a eight foot mirror for our dining room off my step-brother...it is so big and HEAVY, currently it is at my mums, we did have a beautiful wall unit with cupboards on top, unfortunatley it didn't fit into the new house so my friend bought it off us and i'm pleased to say that it looks great in her house, so i still get to see it, we will be purchasing a extra long buffet to go under the mirror, this we will order with in the next few months.
Not a lot has happened since the last post.
We are STILL waiting to start building.
BUT today we received our Certificate of Insurance through the post, so i guess thats a step in the right direction.
Apparently the results of our "new" soil test should be available this week...maybe then we can get our Building Permit and set the ball rolling.
So what have we been doing in the mean time.....shopping is what we've been doing, and lots of it too :)
As you know we sold our house mid 09, and settled at the end of September, since then we are living with our son Adrian (Twiggy) and his fiance Ashleigh, while our daughter Kelly has moved in with my mum on the other side of town.
We sold the house for alot more than we thought we would, so therefore we have been able to indulge and buy furniture, some we have taken possession of while other pieces have been placed on order to be made late March.
All our household possessions are in storage, so anything we buy has to also go into storage...at the rate we're going we are going to have to get another container...but we have been wise little shoppers and have managed to get nearly everything at a discount price..for something to do the other day we added up everything we've bought or ordered and worked out that we have saved 30% off the full price.
And before you ask...No, we haven't just bought things for the sake of buying them...we have moved out of a townhouse and are going into a 37sq house...alot of the rooms would be empty, couldn't have that now, could we?
Our latest buy was a 4 piece outdoor lounge setting...we went shopping with Adrian looking for items for him, when we saw this one...it was comfy to sit in and a very good price....we ummed and arred and said okay...especially as it comes flat packed, which will make it easier to store.
We are STILL waiting to start building.
BUT today we received our Certificate of Insurance through the post, so i guess thats a step in the right direction.
Apparently the results of our "new" soil test should be available this week...maybe then we can get our Building Permit and set the ball rolling.
So what have we been doing in the mean time.....shopping is what we've been doing, and lots of it too :)
As you know we sold our house mid 09, and settled at the end of September, since then we are living with our son Adrian (Twiggy) and his fiance Ashleigh, while our daughter Kelly has moved in with my mum on the other side of town.
We sold the house for alot more than we thought we would, so therefore we have been able to indulge and buy furniture, some we have taken possession of while other pieces have been placed on order to be made late March.
All our household possessions are in storage, so anything we buy has to also go into storage...at the rate we're going we are going to have to get another container...but we have been wise little shoppers and have managed to get nearly everything at a discount price..for something to do the other day we added up everything we've bought or ordered and worked out that we have saved 30% off the full price.
And before you ask...No, we haven't just bought things for the sake of buying them...we have moved out of a townhouse and are going into a 37sq house...alot of the rooms would be empty, couldn't have that now, could we?
Our latest buy was a 4 piece outdoor lounge setting...we went shopping with Adrian looking for items for him, when we saw this one...it was comfy to sit in and a very good price....we ummed and arred and said okay...especially as it comes flat packed, which will make it easier to store.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Finally....A pic of our facade
We have been trying to find a pic of our facade for quite awhile...it was a hard road to travel as the facade we chose is now no longer available...mind you we have a facade that isn't available on a house that is no longer available...go figure.
Anyway while going through our emails from our builder tonight I found this which was sent to us in Feb 09 from our sales consultant, boy i love that man!
So, this is it, the Malvern facade from Porter Davis, what is strange is that all the colourings in the pic are nearly identical to the ones that we ending up chosing, the only thing that is different is that we have grey tiles instead of the colourbond.
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