A FEW BUMPS IN THE ROAD

The colour selection is done and this is the part where it hit me that we are dealing with a project builder ... literally everything we wanted we were told 'that's an extra!' Or a big deal. We decided to do colour selection on Ethan's first day in school, thought it would be a good way to distract us. In hindsight, probably not the best move. But then again, me being stubborn, emotional and dare I say it... almost to the point of outright obnoxious, in the end got us what we wanted. We kept our colour selection pretty simple for two reasons. Firstly, our cupboards are fairly busy and the main feature and secondly, feature tiles, walls etc blow the budget by approx $800 a wall. Thankfully, Karl is pretty handy and we are going to be doing a lot our self, well more Karl then me, but i will be there with packed lunches, cold drinks and the best damn TA his ever had! By doing the tiles and carpets ourselves, we free up a lot of cash, which means that we were able to get exactly what we wanted in the kitchen. Karl is going to do the tiling, which meant that we can get a top quality porcelain tile and the carpet we want for the cost of Coral doing the tiles. The carpet we are getting from Andersons, we were lucky in January which saved us over $1000.

We now have plans in with council, unfortunately the private certifer didn't send everything they needed to immediately, and then when they did council misplaced one of the documents. It seems that now all is in order. I was expecting approval by Monday, but it has not come (surprise). Technically, council have until the 27th February to get back to us, I am still hoping that it won't take that long but that is worst case!

Apparently once council approval comes through, it should be a week before things start happening on site. Now that I cant wait for.

Here are some of our selections:

We have been out to the block a few times, its funny how every time we go we look at it that little bit differently. We went out on E's first day of school and had a photo taken, was hard to believe, this time next year our house would be behind us.

Hopefully, my next post will be soon and announcing council approval.

Unitl next time. xx