Our First Rate's Notice

It arrived yesterday! I don't think we have ever been so happy about receiving a bill :)

Approvals

We are just waiting on one more approval from the council for the house and we have bank approval for the building too. We are getting closer!!!!!

Decisions Made and A Celebratory Lunch

All the options have been decided! The bricks, the walls, the tiles - it's all done and the plans have been submitted to council. Now we wait.

We chose mostly neutral colours during our colour selection appointment - whites, browns, etc and will add colour with accessories. This way its much easier to renovate if we change our mind! We have oak timber floors and white walls leaving us plenty of room to decorate any way we like.

Adenbrook are still being fantastic. Our appointments yesterday went wonderfully - another Thank you to Ryan who was filling in but did just as good a job. We are still amazed at how smoothly it is going now that we have changed builders. At this stage we would happily recommend Adenbrook to anyone.

AND....We had a lovely celebratory lunch today with a special friend who helped us through some of the more trying times of the lead up to this point. A big THANK YOU was more than warranted.

Contract appointment tomorrow!

Hello! Tomorrow we have our colour and contract appointments - only 4 weeks after signing up, which is rather impressive. Here is a a near final copy of the changes we have made:

First Hole Dug

We went out to the land today, now that we officially own it. We had planned to plant our first tree - a native frangipani - but after pegging out the dimensions of our house the building envelope didn't leave much room for it. We decided it might not survive the building process so best to wait till later. We were a bit disappointed that house has had to be set back so far on the land because it leaves no backyard but we are still looking forward to working with what we've got. We've also chosen to use the large space in the front yard for a 10,000L water tank, something that will definately come in handy with the weather lately. We still planted the compost to help improve the soil and Bryan looked great digging his "first hole" on his own land. Since I was no good at digging I spent the weekend dreaming at Puppy World. I think our first dog will be like this one pictured here!!!

The Hamilton

We have chosen to build the Adenbrook Hamilton 30 - with some changes of our own. Our land is 854sqm and really sandy but it came back on the soil test as an M and soon the fun will start. At this point building is scheduled to start in August and **hopefully** be completed by Christmas. So far we have been really happy with Adenbrook and look forward to a nice easy build (fingers crossed). Here is a link to the standard floor plan for the Hamilton http://www.adenbrookhomes.com.au/_db/house_models/pdf/Hamilton_30.pdf

The Land has Settled

Our land settled at 3pm today. The journey begins.....