Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas all.

From Ash and Clint.

No Call :(

Well the 23rd came and went without a call from Studio M, Looking forward to a call first week back in January.

Floor boards

I like this color floor boards.

Any Comments?

Tiles

We have been thinking about the Tiles for the Kitchen and the bathroom a bit lately and i saw these images on a swimming pool web site and thought the feature tiles would look good in the house. what do you guys think?

Also not sure what color tiles to put with them in the bathroom?

It's the 23rd

Well its the morning on the 23rd. I wonder if we will get the call today? I hope so as i would like to get a contract signed and the build in motion.

Ash is still madly reading every home deco web site and book she can trying to select colors that will make our house look trick.


The grass on the block is starting to look bad! Does anybody know if i need to mow/slash this or will the developer keep looking after it for a bit longer?

Call from Metricon

Received a call from M yesterday to say that our Title has come out for the block and that our quote is going to the drafts and engineering team today to be drawn up :)


Also M said that we may get a call with a Studio M appointment on the 23rd of December. Fingers Crossed.

If we don't she said it will be first week in Jan.

Mirror Mirror On The Wall

 So there are 3 options with bathroom mirrors and i would have to say i only like the Framless Polished edge. each row below is Bevel edge, framed, and framless polished

 

Gum trees @ work

So i was sitting outside at work for lunch just now and the gum tree i was under with no warning did this.

View of the top of the tree.

I think the gums at the block will defiantly be having 2 separate little accidents.

Call from Metricon

I received a call from Metracon and hoped that it was for an appointment at Studio M. No such luck it was just to inform us that our CSC will be Rebecca and that our soil sample results were in and we had achieved a M-D wowhoo no extra money required :)

Boral Display centre

We visited the Boral Brick display centre on the weekend. The lady was very informative and gave us the addresses of a few house using our selected brick to go have a look at. We also noticed on a house in there photo book that the off white mortar looked "Pink" in stead of "Off white". She explained that the wrong sand would have been used. She said that normal brickie sand is brown to orange in color and the sand required to make the off withe mortar look nice and white, should be the color of a child's sandpit not white but a yellow to blond type color.

I will defiantly be checking the sand when it gets dropped of to make sure its not brown or orange!

Land

Well the land deposit was payed last week and the SOLD sticker went up!!!!


Studio M sent us a package with some standard selection material. No call for an appointment time yet. The package gave addresses for all the brick and tile manufactures show rooms and suggested that we visit those prior to visiting Studio M.

This Saturday we are going to visit Boral and Austral and Beaumont Tiles.

Looking through the standard selection sheets there seems to be no choice in the internal doors and the standard ones are just a plain flat door. Yuck! Guess we may have to upgrade :( but at least we only have 5 internal doors.

Waiting

Waiting for our acceptance of land contract and waiting for Metricon to call us and arrange a day to visit "Studio M" and select all our colors and standard selections.

Contract Signed

Today we signed and returned the land contracts. :)


I also received an email from the agent selling the land with the information on the gum trees planted out the front.

This was important to us as our current rental has 2 massive gum trees out the front and we feel they have damaged the roofing and guttering on the house by constantly filling the gutters with leaves bark and sticks! Also adding a lot of extra work cleaning the pool and yard.


The good news is the two trees at the block are smaller growing variates. One is a Euc polyanthemos or Red Box approx:15-20m high & spread approx: 10-15m and the other is a Euc mannifera or Little Spotty approx: 10-15m high & spreadapprox: 5-10m

To sign or not to sign?

I have my land contract :)

but... There are some interesting parts to the contract like this one:

"The Vendor reserves the right to make such alterations or variations to the Plan of Subdivision as may be required by the Responsible Authority or the Registrar of Titles to enable the Plan of Subdivision to be certified by the Responsible Authority and approved by the Registrar of Titles."

and this one:

"Identity of the land.

An omission or mistake in the description, measurements or area of the land does not invalidate the sale."

oh and i hope that we like "woodland grey" as there is a Covenant that states:

"That no dividing fence shall be erected on the lot other than of new materials consisting of double sided colourbond steel panels of the colour "Woodland Grey" or equivalent colour."

Land contract at the Conveyancing Solicitor.

I received a call from my Conveyancing Solicitor today to say that he has received the contract for my block of land. He made an appointment to see me tomorrow. Now that is service :)

Hopefully it will all be in order and i can make an appointment at the bank to get the pre-approval done.

Is it ok to Dream?

Exterior Colours

For the exterior colours and style we want to follow the following picture. It is not our plan but the bricks, tiles,  windows and door are exactly the ones we want.

I don't think we will do the rendering to the polls and columns. does rendering crack and fall off over time?

Colour ideas

On the weekend me and Ash went through a few display homes looking at colours for kitchens. We are feeling the lighter colours. Perhaps white bench tops?

On Saturday night we had 55mm of rain in a short amount of time. I went and watched the rain pore of the block and down the drain. It made a big mess of the estate as mud from each block moved into te road.

Request for Contract signed

Today we signed the request for contract. Its basically requesting the quote to be turned into a full contract.

It had a few interesting statements you were agreeing to by initialing and signing.


The most notable was one saying that if Metricon don't get your contract to you in 150 days they can put the price up a maximum of 0.5% and if the take longer than 365 days they can use the new market price...

i hope we get a contract quicker than 150 days so its at our quoted price.

Conveyancing Solicitor

I selected a Conveyancing Solicitor today and have started the process of getting the land contract.

I should be able to pay a deposit on it soon :)




On a side note: Last night i jumped up of the couch to race to the stove as the potato's were boiling over and my iPhone launched from my pocket and flew into the screen on my Sony laptop.  The iPhone came out without a scratch but the screen on my notebook shattered :( worst luck ever!

Land Photos

Ok so paid Metricon the deposit last night the contract will be drawn up for us to read through and sign.

Went past the block and took a few quick pics with my iPhone.


This photo is standing in the middle of the block looking out

This photo is looking across the block

New Shiny Blog

Welcome to our new shiny blog! We are going to use this blog to follow the build of our new Metricon home a SOHO 27. we are doing this to keep all our ideas in one place and allow our family and friends to follow along with all the fun.

We are going to do this in much the same way that Tim and Tina have done on there blog http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com/