Another Busy Weekend Planned

Well after having last weekend off with the kids, it's back onto the house stuff for us. We will be spending Saturday 1st September looking through all the Henley displays (in the nearest village)to make sure we have all the colours just right. The tiles, cupboards, caeserstone, brick and render colours etc.

We have an information session with Cosham Interiors booked on Sunday 2nd September and a Colour selection appt next Friday the 7th of September. So this is our last chance to make selections and see how they look in a larger scale. Choosing colours from a tiny sample and a single tile is not what i call an enjoyable experience.

We are pretty well planned so far though. I keep colour samples, we have sample bricks and roof tiles that we continue to look at and re-confirm that is what we want to look at for a long time to come. I do not want anything that is going to be a "fad" and will be outdated in a few years so i am conservative with my colour selections and think that i can always accentuate with accessories.

I know that when we sold our last place. We had so many compliments on the decor and so many offers on the table on D day that proved we had presented the house tastefully. We know that we need to keep things neutral and the lines clean.

Our colour schemes are fairly neutral, beige colour walls with some darker feature walls here and there, black and white for accents and timber floors, with darker brown/grey colour carpets. We have black leather sofas from our old lounge suite, which will have to do for now. But i'm sure that i can buy more stuff. You know what they say, out with the old and in with the new.... (much to hubby's dismay).

We are not changing much....(yeh right!) The c/stone, tiles, door furniture and even the toilets are being upgraded just to mention a few, so we want to make sure that we are 100% positive on what we want.

I am looking forward to more space though. Having a kids room has really excited our 2 little ones. They can keep it as long as it is kept clean!!! (mum's rules)
We will have multiple entertainment areas, 1. the Family room, 2. The Theatre/Rumpus room and 3. The Kids Retreat. Not that i don't mind being a family unit. But our family-members have very different views on what they like to watch & do.
Hubby likes to watch car racing, 10yo likes to play Playstation, 3yo likes to watch kids movies & car racing with daddy and i enjoy movies. So needless to say that sitting down in front of one TV ends up as an issue most times.

I get quite excited at this stage. i love this aspect of the building/renovating process. Anyway, we'll update the blog on Sunday with our choices. I'll see if i can get some photos together to upload of the colour selections.

A little piece of normailty.

It was our first weekend for a long, long time that we didn't go looking at display homes, didn't look at interior colours & concepts, bricks, flooring etc. We didn't even go down to stare at our bit of dirt.....

It was nice to spend the weekend playing with our children and being "normal". Sometimes we tend to forget what is most important in the world. Sounds soppy i know, but it is nice to stop worrying about the building process every now and then. It brings a sense of normality to our usually busy lives.

Until next time.....

Our block & House

Well hi to all. This is our block of land in The Chase Estate in Berwick, Victoria. Settlement occured this week and we can finally call this piece of dirt ours.
Ours is a so called "corner block" at the top end of a T style court so we have some restrictions as to what the side of the house (that does face the end of the court) looks like.

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We have chosen to build the COTTESLOE with HENLEY.

We have optioned it up quite heavily with the following changes:

* Castlereigh Facade (Galbaly facade pictured here)
* Adding 2m to garage width incl. a roller door for rear access
* the rumpus will become a theatre and will be larger
* the dining/meals are will also be larger
* we are adding a bath to the ensuite
* internal access into the study from the garage
* an alfresco (all going well with budget)
* a corridor from which to access BR's 2, 3 & 4 instead of BR4 coming off the family area
* we are also adding a wall and double doors to close off the living room to make it a seperate zone to entertain in
* adding double doors to the study

A lot of changes i know, and these are only the large ones. Lots of little ones too. We'll try and update the plan and upload to this blog.

Our New Life

Hi everyone, well here it is, our testament to the next few months where we will put ourselves through hell to have exactly what we want....Our new home...

We have chosen to build with Henley. Our home will be The Cottlesloe - but with a few twists.