Wednesday 28 May 2014

Details..

So I've slowly been gathering details on our home and I thought I'd start with what we've chosen to build.  So many decisions had to be made in such little time.  Can't wait to see it all be put together and hope it all works!

After so many trips to display home centres, we decided to go with the Sherwood 37 by Clarendon, the original house we had seen and fallen in love with.  We would have saved so much time and effort had we of just gone with our gut instinct, that we had already found our dream home, BUT as we are so indecisive, we had to visit many other display homes, just in case!

So here is a pic of what our home should look like, we've got bag & paint on the facade.


We only had one minor issue with the home design, and that was the size of the front bedrooms, which were going to be our boy's rooms.  They were slightly on the smaller side.  At our second tender appointment, our tender presenter advised us that we could in fact extend the front room upstairs, which would then extend both bedrooms by 1 metre.  We were ecstatic!!

So the house is going to look more like the Sherwood 42 (see below pic), which is where we got most of our colour inspiration from.


Our house should look very similar to this.  The only difference is we've picked the colour 'Dune' for our bag & paint effect and we have 'Woodland Grey' windows, so only time will tell how similar it will be!


Saturday 17 May 2014

Brick by brick

Every week we visit the house there is something new to see.  Our brickies have started and so far we are very happy with their work.  We love our bricks and the first level is almost done.  Scaffolding goes up on Tuesday and they are scheduled to complete the brick laying in a week and a half.

Here are some progress shots so far.

Front of the house, with corbels which will be bagged in Dune

Gertrudis Brown Bricks

Our 6 stacker door out the back

The 3 stacker on the meals room

Side view

Alfresco 

My kids making a mess, boys will be boys




Hopefully I get a chance to put up our colour selections and plans soon, always on my list of things to do but never get around to doing it.