Lodged with Council

Our plans have been lodged with council today! To say that we are excited would be an understatement!!!
We have noticed that lots of single story dwellings are getting approved within two weeks, so cross your fingers people!

Colour Selections - Facade

For our exterior finishes, we have tried to go for a neutral, low maintenance look that hopefully will not date too quickly.

Our roof tiles are Gun Metal from Bristile Roofing.

We were somewhat limited by our brick selection as we are in a area where salinity needs to be considered.  We have chosen the Whitsunday's range in the Carlisle colour.

The render on the verandah posts and front of the house will be painted in Taubmans Coffee Cake. 

The garage doors will be in Colourbond Dune.

 The guttering, fascia and downpipes are in Colourbond Woodland Grey.

The windows of the house will be in this lovely colour.



Colour Selections - Bathroom

We don't actually select our final tiles until after the slab is layed - something about not wanting us to select tiles that we can't have if they are not in stock. We have haunted the aisles of DiLorenzos on many a Saturday morning, and we have decided we are going to be going to a charcoal coloured floor tile, with plain white wall tiles, and a glass feature tile in a greyish/coffeeish colour. 
We picked the colours for the rest of the bathroom with that plan in mind.

The benchtops will be a fairly neutral base, as we have white porcelain semi-recessed sinks, so they should be the feature.

Our cabinets will be the same colour as the kitchen floor cupboards, and they are raised off the floor, so there will not be a direct continuation from the dark floor to the cupboard.

Colour Selections - Kitchen

We had our first colour selection appointment with the brilliant people at Wisdom Homes today! We are really happy with the guidance we were given, and so happy with the outcome! There were some things we had not even thought about having, but ended up happier than we thought we might be!

So here is the start of the many things we have chosen:

Kitchen benchtops

Floor cabinets

Poly Wall Units

Glass Splashback

We have also chosen stainless kickboards to set off the pretty stainless appliances in the kitchen!!!

Land Registration

So we finally got word that the land has registered. Only five months after we were orignally promised!

This is view from the street!

Final Plans

We received our final, final plans today. We have made a couple of changes to the floor plan, and extended the back of the house to make the bedrooms a bit larger. We are really excited!

And so we begin

We have recently purchased a block of land at Spring Farm, and we are waiting (patienty) for the land to register. After many weekends trawling through display homes, we have decided that our original favourite design the Wisdom Prosperity 26 MKII is the home for us, and we are now eagerly waiting for our tender.

We were tossing up between the 26 and 29, the only thing holding us back was the size of bedrooms, our consultant suggested extending the back of the house slightly to enlarge the bedrooms and the family Room, and the decision was easy! So here is the siting request with the extra length and a triple garage! 

We are now tossing up on whether we should move the home back a litle bit from the front boundary to give us a larger front garden - this will still give us 8 metres from the back of the house to the fence. Decisons!