Finally it is our time to start a thread and share our building adventure.
It’s been a long time to get to this stage and it is very exciting to finally see some action on the block. But let’s step back a little bit and start at the beginning.
We bought a 1888m² block in Adelaide’s Northern suburbs in June 2009 but were not in a big hurry to start building straight away. So we took our time to look for a suitable house plan, but couldn’t find any. To make a (very) long story short, we ended up designing our own plans together with the invaluable help of some fantastic people on this forum and we would like to say a big thank you to everyone who contributed (you may have seen some of the process in the “custom floor plan” thread). Special mentions have to go to: somewoman, chippy, barker, kiwi and deemaree.
So after we finally managed to come up with a plan that (hopefully) will suit all our needs, we signed a building contract with Adelaide Designer Homes in December 2010. These are the plans and elevations for our house:
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Unfortunately there were a few delays and problems throughout the pre-constructions phase and it took us over 10 months to get to the stage where there is finally some activity on our blog. Some of the delays were attributable to our builder but there was nothing too unusual about that. The more frustrating problems were not the fault of the builder at all. There were big problems with the council, some holdups with the construction loan from the bank and other things that cost us a week here or there.
If anybody is really interested in all the boring details and some more background about the house design and planning, you can have a look at my blog:
http://imjashouse.weebly.com