Hi All!
We've been trawling the forum for many months now, gathering excellent tips and ideas, whilst we waited for our land to be titled. So finally on the 19th of December titles were issued and tomorrow at 2.45pm settlement goes through. It hasn't been a smooth ride with quite a few stuff ups with the bank but fingers crossed things will go smoothly from now. I like to be optimistic
Okay so we have purchased a fairly large block in Providence, Wellard. We were fortunate enough to get a 544sqm block, which we've discovered is very difficult to get these days. Our main issue was that we had found the house we loved but then had to find a block with 17m frontage to fit it. Luck was on our side, or perhaps it was that we harassed the lovely sales agents. Either way we are so happy with our acquisition.
Signed our building contracts with Blueprint on the 29th of October to build the Altona and received our preliminary plans with changes we requested. Now we wait for surveyors to have a look at the block and wait to hear back from Blueprint with the next stages.
Hopefully the pictures I attach will work
This one is the original plan we started with
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This is the plan with our changes
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Changes we've made -
* reduced the size of the Study to include a storage area in the garage
* squared off the living area
* added activity room
* added a few extra doors - theatre/WIR/bathroom
* changed the layout of the laundry
* added mirrored sliders in minor bedrooms (we are adding into Bed 2 as well)
* flipped house to comply with 6 star rating
* added overhead cupboards in kitchen/over fridge recess
* extended laundry bench
plus a few other little bits and pieces
Just realised I've been rambling. Will post colour choices etc in another post.
We've asked for flued exhausts in the toilets and bathrooms but have been charged a fair few $$ to get them flued. I would have assumed its mandatory to have them flued, can anyone shed some light?
Thanks