Friday 31 May 2013

Updates

Long time no post! A lot has happened since my last and also a whole lot of nothing as too.
Our land settled on the 3rd of April, this happy event was somewhat overshadowed by the fact that on the 22nd of March, I broke my leg when I came off my push bike. I had surgery to fix the bone internally and was then in plaster for the next 8 weeks. I was hoping I would have the house stuff to keep me occupied.

 Unfortunately we had taken the builders assurances that he and his friend would be doing the plans. This seemed like a good idea at the time until 8 weeks had gone by and I was about to be out of my cast and still, no plans. No ones fault per se, the guy wasn't 'hired' by us or anything and there was no sure then but we had to make an executive decision to bring in a draftsman at that point. I called him and he said $700 and 2 weeks would have it finished and I said done deal. Sure enough, 2 weeks later, the plans are done. Builder came in on Thursday and was still trying to make changes but we had to say no. We've wasted so much time already and it's our first home, no one ever said it would be perfect. Many of the suggestions were non-issues anyway as far as I'm concerned. At any rate we will have hardcopy plans next week. These then have to go to an engineer to design the footings. I have the notes they did for the previously proposed dwelling that were done by the old owners of the block. I'm hoping these will help the engineer and cut some time off the process.

As for the plans https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9vO_9sHCsoxLXhZc0tVaW9rY00/edit?usp=sharing
here is a google docs file for them so you can have a look. I'm excited about the linen storage and the fact that I managed to find space for a whole cupboard in the bathroom. We'll have storage coming out of our ears. I know there isn't a fancy walk in robe but I'm not worried. There should be plenty room for all our clothes and we can have a fancy WIR in the next house we build.

The colorbond I'm planning on is Loft for the cladding and headland for the roof. It will look something like this:


I'm having a love affair with mid century sofas and sideboards at the moment so my plan is to furnish and decorate it in an eclectic-boho-midcentury style.

So that's my updates so far. Next one will probably be when we get the engineering plans back and finally submit to council. Hopefully soon!