I have recently joined this forum and have been reading everyone posts and looking at the threads people have set up to document the process of building their home. So I thought I would start one myself.
My husband and I decided to sell our house and build our dream home around Christmas time. We started looking at displays and found what we liked. We then put our house on the market (thinking it would take months to sell as many of our neighbours had) only to sell in two weeks! While this was happening we also found our block of land.
So where we are now is that the sale of our house and purchase of our land settlement occurs on 26/03/2010. On Monday we paid our deposit to the builder. Our plans are currently being drawn up and last night we recieved notification from our bank manager that our loan is approved for both the land and build.
We move out of our home on Sunday, back to my parents to buckle down and save while our house is being built. Hope to be in by end this year/early next year.
The house we are building basically takes bits and pieces of houses that we liked from various builders and we have then found a local builder who does great quality home at a reasonable price. We are building a lowset 4 bed and study / 2 bathroom. 261 m2, plus 41 m2 patio on a 720 block.
So now we are waiting for our plans to come back and packing up our house for our big move on Sunday.