It's time for my own build thread!!! FINALLY! Yes! We got our building permit yesterday, so it's not long off now!
This will be the first home me and my partner have ever owned or built. It's a long, stressful, crazy experience, but it will all pay off in the end.
It has taken us one year to get to this point, with finance (the most stressful part by far), waiting for title, and now builder's admin.
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It all started off looking like this...
August '09.
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October '09
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Early December '09
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Late December '09
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Feburary '10 It's OURS! Complete with dirt and scrap some builder dumped on there! Wooohoo!
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March '10 Soil Test Holes!
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And that's about it for progress on the block...
Now for the house.
We are building with Burbank. I must say so far I am quite pleased with my decision to build with them and would recommend them.
Here is our home. A simple 22sq three bedroom home, very open plan, 7-Star Energy Efficient with water tank, solar water, very large main bedroom, 9ft ceilings, and glorious timber floors
Facade - different colors of course, we're going dark roof, light Austral Parchment Bricks and some brown+creme render colours.
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House plan
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Electrical
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Site layout
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Basic Colour Selections - in the picture the brick is Austral Nougat, which we later changed to Austral Parchment which is a bit lighter.
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Timber Flooring - Kempas Single Strip, and floor tiles - somehow forgot a picture of carpet, but its charcoal with a square pattern.
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Kitchen laminates - The white is the benchtop, grey is the bottom cupboards, and the silver is the top cupboard color.
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Bathroom/Ensuite tiles
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So yes, I think that will do it for now.
You may have gotten an inkling that this will be a thread with a couple of pictures. Yup. We have hundreds, of EVERYTHING... except the carpet We're crazy
I'm so glad we've made it this far, looking forward to a SLAB and thankyou to you all for keeping us mostly sane!