22.06.12 Colour Schedule - tick!!

Today we finalised our colour schedule, to lock in all colours, fittings and finishing touches... at long last!!  Tick!!

On Monday we have our preliminary plans appointment to finalise and accept our floorplans and this will mean no more changes can be made.

THEN... hopefully all details will be consolidated into 1 contract and finally submitted to Council!

Fingers crossed the Palerang Council will have our application to build within the next week or so... then as mentioned previously, wait 10 weeks for the DA (Development Approval).

Vinyl plank wood flooring...

Pictures showing the vinyl planks from my previous house... we are going with Gerflor this time in the Wenge colour... so a bit darker than this floor was. 

I loved these floors!

Exterior colours... example only.

I had a website recommended to me, that could be used to simulate what our exterior house colours could look like... and this is pretty close (can't change the colour of the patio with the simulator, it will be the same as the front door). Very happy!!

11.06.12 Colour appt - tick!

Wow!! We had our all day appointment to choose all our colours and fittings today... so much fun, hard work, stress and excitement.

We surprised ourselves and chose a few things that we didn't think we would, changed our mind about a few, stuck with a bunch of original ideas and we are very happy!

We have chosen 'woodland grey' for the roof and 'thunderbolt' for the exterior colour.
Dark wood garage door and front door, with dark floors (but not too dark). Off white window and door frames. A soft latte colour for interior walls, with white trims around doors, windows and architraves. So because of the dark floors, being the feature we have kept the kitchen simple -  off whites. A taupe/mocha colour glass splashback. Nice taupe colour wool carpet for bedrooms and living room. Charcoal for the media room (to go with the charcoal walls Michael wants to have). Taupe tiles for all wet areas... except the ensuite. We have a chocolate brown tile for the entire floor to ceiling ensuite with similar colour cupboards and vanity top. Same dark brown for the bathroom, powder room vanity and laundry cupboard. Hume HAG11 doors (5 vertical panels) throughout the house... very country.

These pics don't really show it off, but we know it will all look gorgeous (fingers crossed).

Next appt is in a day or 2 to check the final floorplans...

Taupe carpet  in bedrooms and living room, charcoal carpet for media room, 

brown tile for ensuite, taupe tiles for all other wet areas, 

medium brown planks for all other floors, 

white kitchen cupboards and benchtops, taupe splashback, white and dark brown shelves in pantry, 

dark brown cupbaords and bench tops in bathroom/ensuite/powder room/laundry. 

All internal walls painted white pepper.  

Woodland grey roof and gutters with surfmist facia, 

dark brown stain to garage door, 

dark brown stain to front door and wood trims around edge of patio roof and pillars, 

thunderbolt bag and paint all external walls and all down pipes, 

dune window trim, surfmist window frames

The land has been cleared... we're ready!!

Today was a beautiful autumn day, so we went for a drive out to the block.

Last week the land was cleared of trees / shrubs (about 15 in total) and the grass slashed with the whole thing tidied up, looks great.

Just sitting there, waiting... for a gorgeous home to be built on it.........................................

After clearing - from the street front looking to back fence.

From the back corner looking to the front.

Colour appointment booked!!

Woo-hoo... we have our colour appointment booked -  Tuesday 12 June. V excited.
Planning appointment booked for the same day, to see and accept the draftsman's final floor plans... both appointments in Sydney.
A later date than we were hoping for but we are not concerned, just don't like all this waiting.

McDonald Jones have kindly offered to pay for our overnight accommodation... nice.

15.05.12 Now with the Planning Department

       The Bronte Blog has had a little renovation and a slight name change. We are thinking the house name plate (included with the house) will be 'Notre Maison'. Quite simply - 'Our House'.

        So... this past week we have accepted the 'Consolidated Tender' (agreed inclusions, building costs, variations etc) with McDonald Jones.

Of course there were more costs... upgrade to a H1 slab is required due to soil test report indicating lots of clay, which means an additional $6k. ka-ching! ka-ching! Here we go.......................

Now we are waiting for the 'Planning Department' to get back to us with the finalised drawing of our floor plan and electrical plan... hope to hear from them in 2 or 3 weeks to see and sign off.

In the mean time we are still waiting for an appointment to go to 'Colour Studio' and choose our colours, fittings and fixtures. We are guesstimating it will be 1st June!

        I am guessing once all this is done and we get through 10 weeks of waiting for Council approval, we might start preparing to build by late August, early September. Add 26 weeks + 3 weeks Christmas break... that's an estimated mid to late March for completion... so add another  4 weeks just because and we might actually be in by Mid April!

        A long way off but still very excited.