Contract all final!

We finally have got our designed approved & have all our finally drawings! They have changed all our first floor windows to awnings with no cost to us. Yay finally we didn't have to pay for something!

Ryan likes to keep updated on the Homes One forum and found that the colour we chose for our cabinets in our kitchen and bathrooms had been discontinued. I contacted our BC who had just got back from leave who confirmed that it had been. This meant another trip to Porter Davis's World of Style to chose a new colour.

I had a look online before we went and I had a pretty good idea of two colours that I wanted to look at. We compared a colour that was slightly dark than the original colour and then a pattern that has grey tones instead of the brown. I've decided to go with the grey tones as most of our colours are grey, black and white. I'm quite glad that the originally colour was discontinued as I think the new colour will work better. As they as everything happens for a reason. :)

 This is the new colour for the island bench, over head & bathroom cupboards (its a lot lighter & greyer than the picture shows):

Some other great news - we have surveying pegs on our block! This means that all things should be a go a head for the first week of September. Its been a long time coming and I just can't wait to see it built!!

One step forward, two steps back

So first off good news as we all prefer good news right?!

We got our facade approved yay and got a better valuation done on the build so will  not have to pay LMI at all on the new build yay!!

Below are the drawings for the new facade and just an idea on colours, as well as the changes that had to be made to the privacy screening due to development requirements (the changes ended up being cheaper than the option they gave us originally which we never liked anyway, so slight win for us!) We also had to add an awning window downstairs to the living area, the finally changes all meant we had to pay more (seriously everything cost you money when you build!)

Now for some news which I got tonight which may turn into not so great news and again may jeopardise whether we do build. We just got advised that we now need awning windows to all of the upstairs opening windows (developers request). As I have previously mentioned awning windows are not cheap these changes could be upwards of $2000 and we're already at max budget. I think its about time we win the lotto, hmm might just go buy a ticket now and while I'm at it will water my money tree :P

Hopefully when we get our finally PCV in the coming days it has better news than what were expecting. In the meantime we will be enjoying a lovely evening tomorrow night at Porter Davis's new World of Style show room watching a cooking demonstration by Guy Grossi.