Wednesday 31 July 2013

Site Start!





Yay! We received a phone call at lunchtime yesterday from a man (who I think is our SS but I was too excited to catch his name...anyway he was calling to tell me they were just about to break ground.
I patiently waited (ok i'll admit impatiently) for mark to finish work and the kids to finish school and we drove round to have a look we saw the big bobcat thingy was about half way through.
drove past again today after school with the kids and they had obviously finished what they hadn't yesterday and there were different levels cut into certain areas for the step down of things like the porch + alfresco, and the garage (which has a step down but a smaller one than the p+A)

so 2 days down hopefully less than 236 to go :)
and they have delivered what they have said so far - site scrape was due to start yesterday so hopefully weather co-ops and we will have a slab next Friday...
will do my best to update every Wednesday work dependant of course.
Happy days

Saturday 13 July 2013

eager!

Well have not much to post but am eager to hear about site start still hopeful it will be July...the youngest has started walking and i have been pouring over silly things like blinds and decorations for kids rooms , will let them be more personal this time A wants aqua T wants green i think, W wants purple and i want yellow for the little girls really liking the vintage inspirational quotes at the moment too. Thinking of going with blinds online for our window coverings as i have priced up the whole house for half what bir k interiors quoted

Monday 1 July 2013

Colour Selection

We were on a family holiday in Philip island during the week our color and electrical appointment was scheduled. As we didn't want to delay a start date i drove up for the appointment with our oldest and had my mum come meet so i could show her what we had selected for the house. As we had been to Hometown Interiors a couple of times i knew whatwe wanted to choose for everything anyway. It went great took about an hour all up. It definitely helps to know exactly what you want toAND what you can afford! I am very thankful we included most upgrade costs in tender so i knew what we could select. I think mum enjoyed seeing what we had picked and it sure helped me having someone to spend time with while we waitedfor e Electrical appointment which wasn't till after lunch. In our usual style we picked all whites and grey and blacks for the house. I just don't have the beige tones in me we Picked a splash of green to brighten things up and hopefully it will look clean and fresh -even if only for a week! I was actually quite pleasantly surprised with electrical costs especially when you don't use downlights it came in under budget by quite a bit even after adding a few things we hadn't thought of. So winning all round at the moment.