Hi,
I wasn't going to do a thread on the new house but have decided it would be a good way to track the build and compare to others building in the same area.
We have a 4x2 in Taylors Estate which we lived in for 14 months before we decided to rent it out and move into our place at Balcatta, we have decided to build again this time in Suffolk Park. But now we are wanting to set the house up for when we decide to have kids.
We spent a few months trying to find a suitable block, all we could find were odd shaped blocks or corner blocks which we didn't want to loose backyard space because of the required setbacks. We were just about to send off signed contracts for a block in Taylors Estate when we walked into the Lansdale Smarthomes display, James Lewis from the display home said he had a few suitable blocks coming up and would call us. At 7pm on a Sunday night James rings to tell me the blocks were a couple of weeks from release but would defiantly have something for us. A week or so later were meeting with him to choose our block. It came in $12,000 cheaper then Taylors for the same size block.
This was in May 2014, we went to Europe in September for 6 weeks so did pre-start in August as titles were expected early October and we weren't going to be here. Then the delays started.
We went from October to mid November to early December, mid January, early February, until on the 5th of February we were told late February, on the 9th February we receive a letter advising titles have gone through.
Now just sorting out the last bits for finance hopefully we can get moving with the build.
We are on Topsham Way on a 450sm block. We are building the Mentor.
The Mentor is 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, study, theatre and activity area.
We are arranging the tiling ourself as we wanted 600x600 porcelain and apparently they only do ceramic.
Otherwise we added double vanities and double showers to the ensuite, mirrored build in robes to bed 2,3,4, shower screens to both showers, additional cabinetry in the kitchen, benchtops and cupboards in the laundry, stone benchtops, high ceilings, ducted air con additional paving to the backyard
At this stage we are hoping we will be in by Christmas.
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