Monday, August 30, 2010

Flooring!

We bought some "timber laminate (Blackbutt) " flooring today @ Parry's. They where having a big sale so we picked up a bargain!! We bought enough to cover our living areas.


This is a picture from the showroom-

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Bits and Pieces we have bought so far...

Just thought i'd share some of the bits and pieces we have bought for the house so far....this time we said everything was going to be good quality so if we buy it over a period of time we should have most things by the time we move in! :-)

The King Size "Azolla" Bed set which includes a king size bed, two side tables, one tall boy and one dresser with a mirror.




This is our matress except ours is a king , its sooooooo comfy!!!




We have also bought some scanpans! We bought the four piece set, which includes 2 sauce pans with lids, a tall casserole pot and a fry pan

Colours, Selections and Upgrades

Now to the fun part! I'll start with what we have chosen for the exterior then the interior.

Our Brick is "Provinicial Avignon" from Midland Brick
                                                      
Our Roof Tiles are "Mocha Choc" from Monier Prime (they are actually alot lighter brown not this dark)

Our Fascia and Garage Door will be colourbond "Jasper"


Four our Down pipes/gutters we have chosen "Paperbark" to match our bricks



This will be our front door painted a similar colour - Solver "Goanna"



The driveway and pavers along side of the house and alfresco are almondbury vogue by midland brick


For our window frames we chose the colour "charcoal Lustre" i dont have a picture but pretty much a black with a silverly simmer through it.

Okay so for the INTERIOR for our kitchen cabinets colours we chose Polytech "Caraway" Its actually a little bit lighter and a softer brown than this



For our kitchen benchtop with chose Laminex Diamond Gloss "Catalana Marble" (the top half of the photo-i was lucky to find this picture of google images-i think it may have been from the homeone forum, so i hope it is ok i use this picture-but please do tell me if its not!)


Our kitchen handles with be the "T-Bar" style





Our Oven is the Blanco 750mm

                    

Our Hotplate is the Blanco 750mm



Our Range-hood is the Blanco 900mm


We have upgraded our kitchen tap to the Krysren Pull-out mixer



Our ensuite we upgraded to our double shower screen to semi-frameless.




We upgraded our bath to the Newbury 1800mm with head rest- so this time joel can fit in it LOL!



Our basins in our ensuite and the guest bathroom will be semi-recessed


The basin tapware will be stylus "elegance" and the shower set will be stylus "elegance" shower



Our floor tiles we chose where "Bongo Graphite and Bongo White" Graphite for the floor and then the white for the skirting.


Wednesday, August 25, 2010

So here is a couple of picture of our block!



We took the puppy's up to check out there future home :-)



I think Monty approves!!!

Our House Plans!

So these are our offical house plans from Kerdels-



The original plan is Kerdels "The Breeze" we have changed a few things to suit how we would like the house. Firstly we chose this design as we want a very open plan living. We extended our garage out 1 metre and made the roof height 31 course (so we can fit joels work van in there!). Our Bedroom ensuite we made our single shower to a double and also our basins from single to double. Its pretty much the same bedroom set up we had in clarkson but we didnt have double basins. In our laundry I have just added benches. In Our Media Room Joel has recessed ceiling and has made the room as square as possible. In my Kitchen I have extended the bench space, upgraded my oven and cooktop. Our Alfresco has been extended out and will be covered under the main roof. In my next post i will go through all the colours, selections and upgrades i have chosen :-)

First Post - All about our build!

Hello There :-)

Well I've decided to create a blog spot so can i can post regular updates for friends and family on the progess of our new home. Well where do i start? In April this year Joel and I sold our very first home we built together. We always knew our first home was a "stepping stone" to help us get to the area we really wanted to be in. Joel and I decided we wanted to be in either the Darch or Landsdale area to be close to friends and family. We actually came accross a house and land package in "Darch" with a smaller builder called "Kerdels", so Joel called them up and we set up our first meeting with them, John our sales assistant from Kerdels gave us a map and a choice of three Blocks, so off we went to check them out. We ended up choosing the corner block as Joel wanted to have side access. So from there we put a deposit down on the block and kept our fingers crossed our Clarkson house would sell in time! Luckily enough our house sold a couple of months later and the titles where still pending for our Darch property. So from when our house sold in april until our titles came out in June we had many meetings with kerdels changing around our house plans and upgraded alot of our materials. Our Land settled on the 14th July 2010 and we where booked into our pre-start 17th August 2010. After our pre-start meeting we found out our plans where lodged into council on the 16th August, they told us it would be a good four weeks before we got out building ticket so keep your fingers crossed for the 13th September! Apparently as soon as we have the go ahead from the council it takes 2 weeks to get the slab down, so i would say we will start building early October (hopefully!!)