This forum has been SO useful when researching builders, plans and all that fun decision stuff. Nothing has been exactly what i'm after though so i thought i'd put our…

And an extra special one of my......I mean our ensuite and WIR. I'm going to need to buy more shoes!

We have a slab!
Poured last Friday. Mr H and I went up for dinner on the weekend. Its rather large!
Standing at…

We've been so flat out these past 10 weeks or so. Clearing lots of land, i'm quite handy with a chainsaw now. Earth works has started!!!
Rock breaking is…

Quick build update:
We have started to clear our block and get things ready for DAH to come in and build us a home and the loan has been approved so…

Ok so colour selections as promised
Kitchen selections:
We're going to do the glass splash back ourselves but have used their sample to get an…

Fancypants our layouts are very similar!! In fact we seem to have similar tastes too, i love the all white kitchen (we're going with kitty grey throughout also!) and i…

I have been a bad bad bad home one blogger lately, i'm sorry.
What have i been up to you ask?? Studying, moving twice and lots of little housey tasks. Living…

Hahahaha i'm hoping it will be! Thanks all. Its certainly renewed our excitement in the project.

Unfortunately i have no updates
The site works started around the 27th November and lots of sand was delivered for the pad on about the…

Tracy try trimming the grass tree right back (so its almost just the black stump). They need lots of water for the first few weeks and some sort of…

Hi! You can totally have non standard things, I was all over that! We're supplying our own kitchen appliances, we went to Reece bathrooms and selected our own sinks too…

Tracy my husband is a painter and he always moans when people lay floors before the painting's been done. He says its easier (and quicker) to touch up a mark…

Prestart costs all done!
We spent just under 11K in the end mostly in the kitchen.... now we wait to see what the bank have to say and we're full steam…

Thanks Team
Its just such a pain because we'd love to have everything included (this is a long term house) but not at the prices they wanted to charge....
Our prestart consultant…

Thanks Tracy and Fmac Glad its not just me who finds these prices crazy!
Yeah adding up the tap upgrades comes to about 7K.
The undermount sink…

So its been a while but in the mean time we've had our electrical consults and pre start. It took two weeks to get the costings back to us (is…

Thanks Tracyw. We're thinking wall faced toilets as well, who likes non wall facing these days!?!
we're happy with the oven etc, i'm curious though was it expensive to do the…

WOW thanks so much Fancy pants, a great list and food for thought. All of the things you have mentioned as upgrades you did go with are the things we're…

Thanks Tracy, we did visit central a few weeks back and i asked our pre-start consultant to send me a list of suppliers too.
This past weekend we spent Saturday wandering…