Seeing the way the land lies.....

Today Tony & I went out to our block to peg our house out so we could have a look at how our house would sit on the block in 2D.
So out we went armed with string, twine, stakes, tape measures, set square, hammer, water and 2 dogs.

Firstly we used the string to outline our block, then started measuring where the house would sit, using the set square to hopefully get it to sit straight, after getting all the stakes in we proceeded to use the bright orange twine in between the pegs to get the outline of the house, we were doing fine until Mia decided to run right through the twine, then Sorcha ran through the top of the house taking the twine down...silly dogs.

Hmm...not as much yardage as we thought...funny thing that, you know how much area you have but physically seeing it puts a whole new perception on it. But this was the whole idea of doing what we did.

After restringing the house it was time to take pics of it...unfortunatly the orange string didn't stand out as much as we hoped it would so we couldnt get one pic of the whole house :( but we did take lots of sectional photos...

House Number

Well, things are starting to get a move on...be it ever so slowly...lol

Today we found out what our house number will be in 7 - 8 months time......

...wait for it....its #11...yep legs eleven, now i can go buy my numbers...yay......yes, i know it doesnt take much to excite me...lol

At Last...

Yes!!

It's official, we now own 725m2 of dirt!!


Went to see our dirt and had celebratery drinks with 4 other couples who have or are about to settle on their dirt.

The next two and a half months will drag before we start to build...bring on the build!!!!

Inch by inch...

Today it felt like we are finally getting somewhere.

1. we are definately poorer.
2. took our portion of the land settlement to our conveyencer
3. had to go have a look at our block...yep, it's still there and just begging to be built on :)

Monday will be the big day....settlement on our block...*sigh*

pity we have to wait until end of January for things to begin...can't wait for that day.

Title

OMG !!.......titles have FINALLY been released, so, in two weeks time it will be 'our' bit of dirt.
Pity that we now have to wait until Mid January 2010 to start building :( but at least we know when we are stating now :) :)

Land Update

Well....we are still waiting for our land to be released.

Apparently Australand have lodged compliance with the SRO last week, so now we are waiting for them to release titles.

However this is not going to help us start building before the end of the year. We heard from our CSC today, and we along with all the other Porter Davis clients from Wallara Waters will begin our builds in the middle of January when they get back from the Christmas break.....delays, delays....
...so at least we have a definate start date now (fingers crossed), this means that we will NOT be in our new house in time for me to celebrate my 50th birthday in June...bummer! so we have decided to celebrate it when we finally move it, even if its a few months after :)

House Plans

Tony very kindly informed me last night that I hadn't put the house plans on the blog yet, so, here they are.....

This is the Hayman 34 by Porter Davis (probably the last one to be built), structual changes we made include the removal of the 2nd WIR in the master bedroom/ensuite; voids in the study/master wall, master/ensuite x 2; family/rear hall, added a door to the rumpus room and removed the wardrobe and wall between bedrooms 3 & 4 ( this is to give our adult daughter her own sitting room/bedroom), in bedroom 2 we are putting taller doors onto the wardrobe as this will be my craft room.

We have about 95% of the upgrades that were in the display house, so therefore we have 9' ceilings, the fireplace in the lounge, french doors in the master bedroom leading to a sm verander at the front, bi-fold doors from the kitchen to Alfresco, French doors from the lounge to Alfresco and Sliding doors from the Dining to Alfresco...i know i know...3 different types of doors all leading out onto the one area.

We also have extra overhead cupboards in the kitchen, 2 pot drawers on one side of the oven and 3 graded drawers on the right side.

Nearly forgot...we have extended the Alfresco, so it doesnt finish flush with the house and we added a 3rd garage.

There are heaps more things but at this very moment I cannot think of things...

Porter Davis's Hayman 34.