Well after spending my entire life in the city me and my partner decided we wanted to have our own little piece of paradise. We found a beautiful, perfect really, block of 10 acres situated about 35 mins away from the outskirts of brisbane. We brought the land back in july 09 and have had nothing but dramas the entire process.
We had drama's with the bank securing the loan as current lendor wanted 30% deposit because the property was rural. But after some hunting around, the local branch of another bank, in the nearest town sorted the loan, not without continual delays though and we had to extended settlement date 2 times.
Here's our land...
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Now to find a builder. We looked at all the majors and were absolutely blown away by Metricons display homes, the misses was sold. But after sitting down with the sales rep, we quickly saw that the house we wanted (similar to the display), was not in our budget. So after about a month we finally found a design we could work with, as well as a price we could afford.
It was a Hallmark home, that we had modified beyond recgonition. It was rejected
However they said that we could keep the 2 major alterations that were the deal breakers.This is the Ascot in standard form.
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And this is how we modified it.
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As you can see, we completely remodelled the ensuite and brought the kitchen back to allow a few different things. Firstly we able to make a hallway so that the entrance to the garage was not through the already small office. We converted the extra space to a linen cupboard but more importantly make a huge walk in butler pantry (well thats what metricon call it lol). We also changed all the doors and kitchen window to Bi-folds to really open the house up.
We removed the linen cupboard in the activity room as it was relocated and added a sliding door to the outside. We also changed a few other things that will be reveled at a latter date
Now that was 6 months ago. Delays have been numerous to say the least, If it hasnt been the bank its been the council, If it hasnt been the council, it's been the builder (however they have been good up to this point, despite one issue that was quickly resolved at the start).
Well long story, still long lol, we are signing mortgage documents TODAY!! YAH
Hopefully we have a start date this week.Land Settlement - 19/07/09
Building Deposit Paid - 14/02/10
Site Scrape - 25/08/10
Slab complete - 01/09/10
Frame Completed - 15/09/10
Roof Completed - 21/09/10
Pre Wire/Plumbing - 23/04/09
Bi-Folds Installed - 24/09/10
Bricks Completed - 13/10/10
Cornice, skirting, shelves completed - 14/10/10
Thank god for that.
you can hear the serenity 
what a gorgeous block
