Money, Paper and other things

Formal approval on paper is finally in our hands, not that it wasn't going to be but its much nicer knowing all of the things you have been picking you can now actually have. We got the right land layout with our house on it to add to the building plans. We we want the tiles to be in the bathroom exactly has now been sorted and thats about it for now.

Final prestart interview to sign last of the papers has been pushed back to next thursday due to a sad event.

thats all for now.

Hiccup number 1 (only a little one though)

Well this is the first thing that has gone wrong but im not even sure if you can call it wrong. Got the final building plans etc etc today except i wasn't aware that we were building in a suburb 30km from where we bought our block of land, or on a smaller block than ours or on a corner for that matter. It was news to my other half as well. But if that is the worst thing that goes wrong during this building process is that i get someone elses soil testings and house layout i will be one happy woman. :)

Tiles, tiles, more tiles, oh and some taps

Well the first tile place was a quick visit. Not much there that we liked and that was included as standard. The second was great, we picked the tiles and then i had a dilema because i thought something was not going to match so after torchering my partner for 45 minutes in the shop i decided i needed to sleep on it and we would go back the next day. Well he went to work that morning and i though i'll just go and look at the tiles at the 3rd tile shop. Bad idea, really bad idea. By the time i had left i had changed my mind on the colour of the tiles for the bathrooms . . . . again. So down we went in the afternoon when he came home and finally came up with these.

Top tile above vanity and in the shoer will run vertical as a feature strip instead of horizontal around the top. These for the floor, they look more black in the photo, but they are a charcoal colour with a matt finish not shiny, i have mentioned that me photography skills are not the best :) And of course everone knows what a white tile looks like, they will be in the shower recess. The charcoal tiles will also run up the bath sides and around the top instead of the plain white tiles, and be used in the laundry and the W/C.

Bath Taps

Shower Heads

Shower Mixers

Toilet Roll Holder

Towel Rack

Spare Toilet Roll Holder

So wednesday we are off to do our Pre start and sign the last, well almost the last piece of paper we should have to sign, then just wait for council approvals, which will hopefully be sooner rather than later, taking about 5 - 7 weeks in the shire we are building in at the moment. Finger crossed everything goes ok.

A little bit for this and a little bit for that

Well we picked up our home file to start selecting items that had to be done before our pre start meeting and to look at other things and options that we want to upgrade.

These are the colours for the kitchen *Ash Dust for the bench tops and Expresso for the cupboards, both from Laminex. The splash back will be the Cosmic Dust (from Formica) from bench to where the overhead cupboards start. The handles are chrome.

The bathroom and ensuite will have the same colours just in slightly different layouts. The benches are Ebony Marble and the cupboards are Polar white which has a slight pearl to it, looks so nice when the light hits it. (both from Laminex again). Handles will be the same as the kitchen ones, will post picture when i have them. Tiles are still in the final throws of being picked, whe have the colours just need to find those allusive perfect feature tiles. So will update you when we find them.

My appologies for the poor photograpy skills some of the colours look a bit darker than they are.

Off to the carpet man tomorrow to pick the floorboards and the carpet!!! Yay

Were getting the money

Well heard back from the money man Arin. And we have been given our pre approval !!
Yay. I never thought that i would be so happy about embedding myself into such a large amount of debt. But we just keep remingding ourselves of all the usual things that people say to make themselves feel better. You know:

Its better than rent,
It will be fun,
Its and investment,
I could have spent more,
It's not that much,
REALLY IT"S NOT!

So Saturday it off to sort out the contacts and get our building file. Arguments over tiles and colours not far away :)

Did i mention i'm excited!