Hello
I thought while I had a bit of time I'd begin my new build post. We're a family of two adults and one 8 year old girl, building our forever home.
The Journey So Far
We started with living in the existing house on our block - a house built in 1952 by my granddad - who was NOT a builder! Before we knocked it down we commissioned Colin Madgwick to paint a picture of it:
Old House - Colin MadhwickLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅
[You can see more of Colin's work here: https://bluethumb.com.au/colin-madgwick]
So, while we were living in it, we built a granny flat out the back. The granny is by Evoke Living Homes [https://www.evokelivinghomes.com.au/]. We built the Salt Box but we extended the floorplan (and thereby removed the verandah). It looks like this:
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It is a prefab but it was built on site (had time for them to do so and it saved us on costs to raise the power lines). I recommend Evoke Living - but the trek to Northam, where they are based, to do pre-start was a bit much!
Good ole Dad built us a deck.
So now we are living in the Granny Flat. We love it.
Once we'd moved in, we knocked down the main house. The house went down in about October, and we are still living in a dust bowl.
We are subdividing (into 1/3 and 2/3 - the latter we are keeping) and so we are waiting to sell the subdivided block until we can afford to build!
We have Design Approval - finally - the City of Stirling must hate us because it took forever. I don't think they could get their heads around such a weird build (I didn't think it was weird but apparently it was).
The only bummer is that the granny flat has to be a 'single dwelling' (until we complete our main house, of course) and so we have to install a tandem driveway, which, after the slab goes down, will have to be taken up again.
Good ole Dad will construct the driveway (after the prep is done by someone else).
He's retired, he's got to do something, right?
Where we're up to now
So the Design Approval came through two weeks ago. We are waiting for the sewer to be cut in to the new block, then we are going to build the retaining walls.
We will then also put the block on the market 'properly' - we're self selling at the moment and that doesn't seem to be going too well.
In the meantime we are going through pre-start. Have yet to finalise though. Here are the plans - though these will be changed - mainly the doors - before we sign on the dotted line!
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Will keep you updated (probably not for a while...).