Finally... Something's Happening!

We visited our site last weekend and surprise!!..we have progress!! They've scraped our site down so it's flat and marked out the building envelope with pegs spray-painted a pretty pink colour! Hee hee!

Here are a couple of piccies!

This is a pic of our site from across the street.. we have fencing and a port-a-loo!! (for the builders of course!) And on each side, our fast-progressing neighbours.. Henley on the left, and Porter Davis Prestige on the right. Thank God they're both single story!

This is from the right side of the block.. can you see the pretty pink pegs? :D




This is from our driveway cross-over.

Hopefully we'll have pictures of the slab next week!! I cant believe it's finally happening!! Like really, really happening! AHHHHHHHH!!! :D

Quick Update

We went to visit our land on the weekend, and lo and behold the houses on either side of us have started building! The houses next door are thankfully not double story as we first thought they might be.. thank God.

So our we recieved our final plan drawings on Friday and there are MISTAKES!!!! I almost spewed!! After all our blood, sweat and tears.. they still stuffed it up.. Isnt it in their best interest to get started ASAP so they finish on time and dont have to pay us for going over contract? Kir thinks they're stuffing us around to push back site start, but we got all the paperwork to them on time so it's all up to them. We've emailed our CSC so she can get the mistakes fixed so we can finally bloody START damnit!!

12/11/08 - Edit: We've got site start! We've been informed that they will scrape our site on the 26th and then slab will be poured on the 28th!! WOO-bloody-HOO!!!

Full Speed Ahead!

Well! After months of stressful phone calls and emails to our CSC and our mortgage broker, and meetings with the consultant at our colour and tile selections, we finalised our variations, submitted our loan request to our lender and were finally approved for our loan late last week. We spoke to our CSC and everything seems to be in order and we've been told that we are to commence building on time!! WOO HOO!!! About bloody time I say...

Anyways, here are our final colour selections:

EXTERNAL:

Bricks: Boral - Jarrah

Mortar: Off White

Roof Tiles: Boral Macquarie - Gunmetal

Windows: Satin Black

Mouldings/Sill: Wattyl - Moroccan Stone

Garage Door: Jarrah

Guttering, Fascia and Downpipes: Colourbond - Night Sky

Front, Laundry, French and Bi-fold Doors: Timber stained - Rosewood

INTERNAL:

Walls: Wattyl - Kid Leather

Architraves: Wattyl - Oriental White

Internal Doors: Wattyl - Flokati

Benchtop: Quantam Quartz - Tornado with Aris edging

Kitchen Cabinets: Sarsen Grey

Kickboards: Brushed Silver

Glass Splashback: Dulux - Whisper White on "clear" glass (it's got a greenish tinge, but looks OK)

Vanities: Oyster Linea

Laundry Benchtop: Stipple Seal

Laundry Cupboards: Oyster Linea

I found the Wattyl colours a bit weird on the website so I'll leave them out, but it all looked good at our colour selection... hopefully it all melds in well when it's in the house! We're hoping to put in a charcoal/slate coloured exposed aggregate driveway, and perhaps render the front facade after handover ie: when we have the money! Ugh!

So now the wait is on to see when they actually start clearing our land and digging the trenches for the pipes and laying the slab. Hopefully it's within the next week or so.

I'm so excited I think I'm gonna pee my pants!! :D