THE BEGINING

After 9 months of waiting, our block will finally be ours tomorrow- One more sleep!

I first found the house I loved, being only the 3rd display house I walked into, back in mid October 2009. Then the hunt would be on to find a block of land to suit. I found our block on the internet only a week later. It was in the estate I wanted, it was in my budget, it was a great size and I would be close to family and friends.

The land would not be ready and titled until mid 2010 so that gave me plenty of time to renovate and sell my current home and plan for the new home I wanted to build. I put a hold on this block and got straight to work on the old house. The old house was renovated and on the market by late January 2010 and sold 10 days later in early February. The pain of renovating now a distant memory! I put my 5% deposit on the block on 16th March, now while waiting for titles it was time to get busy choosing colours etc for the new home. I had my daunting colour selection on 31st March. After much chopping and changing I made my last final decisions on 21st June so now everything was ready to go to contracts and for my drawings to be done. I received my contracts and drawings 8th July and had them signed on 11th July. To keep myself busy while I wait for the building permits etc (we are hoping for a site start in 3 weeks) I am creating this blog for family, friends and visitors to follow our journey of building our new home. This will be a our dream home, for myself and my son - just the 2 of us!