Land Registration

Just before Christmas our land was registered. We had a fabulous solicitor who helped us settle within 2 weeks (4 days ago). Now we can work with Elderton to get the building started!

Colour re-selection.....

The problem with waiting so long for land to register and a house to be built is that you can change your mind about what you like. We still love Grey and White as a pallet, but we just weren't sure how grey and how white. Also Elderton has expanded  so we rang them and got another appointment today. We saw more of the ranges than before and made more upgrades and spent more money!

Bathroom - Changed cupboards to Royal Oyster

 

 Kitchen - We changed to White Matt and Astral Bench top, the cupboards and the door handles. There will also be similar pannelling to the cupboards on the side and back of the bench/island.
We also saw our 900mm stove and oven.

 Cupboard style, colour and handles

Smeg Stove and Oven

Glass splashback colour - Grey Pepple (Dulux)

Cupboard and Benchtop samples

Carpet - Either of these, depending on the cost of the upgrade. The Aged Driftwood is included in our packaged, 

Aged Driftwood

Safari Dust 

Internal Door upgrade throughout ($520 for Hume Doors Accent Range HA4)

Land Ahoy....

Well we are not quite at registration yet, we believe that they should be in the process of lodging the application for registration with the council, this process could take anywhere between 2-6 months. Clearstate (property developers) are estimating October November. 

Lot 16 marked out and ready to go

Nearly there

After a long delay we have a mostly surfaced road! The process has taken much longer than anyone expected because the council had changed the design of Boundary Rd several times during the DA and detailed design phase after the bulk earthworks CC had been approved. This essentially meant work was stalled for 3 months over the Jan/Feb/March 2016 period. We had a newsletter from Clearstate to say that the land should be completed in August 2016 and registration in November 2016. They have also advised us that once they reach practical completion we will be able to carry out our survey for our individual DA (Development Application). Elderton has already told us that this shouldn't be a long process as they are going to use a private certifier.  

The next phase with Elderton will be choosing tiles for the flooring, kitchen, bathroom and laundry. We have also changed our mind about a few of the other colour choices, which we will update with later.

Westminster Rd entry, they have done all the electrical work for the street lamps so we think this will be next.

St Albans Rd, not quiet complete but getting there.

A little more progress......

The progress on the land over the past 2-3 weeks. We noticed they'd moved out and the house was boarded up. Very quickly there was a fence around the land and trees cut down. today there was no house and the first sign of machinery on the land!

Update.....

So we drove past today, as we do most days  and saw that the windows on the existing house had been all boarded up or not there. The sheds have been pulled down and the the goats and ferrets have been gone for some time. It's amazing to see the progress and development in the area. On the other side of the hill we can see the bellriver homes being built and  work on the park. Opposite our land there are abandoned houses that have been sold for development. 

Hopefully we see some machinery on the land soon, they gave me an indication that it would be late September, but if it's earlier I definitely won't complain:) 

Colour Appointment

We had our lovely and long colour appointment on 28/5/15. They had rescheduled it from April.

We had upgraded a few items, ceiling height, appliances, cabinetry in the laundry, melamine shelving etc prior to this appointment.  

Here are some samples of what we chose for the interior and exterior. 

Bench top in Kitchen - Santorini Smartstone. The laminate in the laundry is very similar to this.

Cabinet colours from back left ;

bathroom vanities mushroom linea

Back Right - kitchen cupboards Royal Oyster

Front - laundry cupboards designer white

As mentioned before we have chosen Twilight roof tile and Orpheus Brick

Colourbond samples from left;

Wallaby for Garage Doors

Monument for Window Frames, Guttering and down pipes

Surfmist for facia

Other paint colours;

Apache stone for front door and infills

Marble Mist for interior walls

Surfmist for facade rendering, eaves and sofit

Electrical Appointment;

We also had our Electrical appointment that day. We have upgraded a few things and will probably have the wiring done for down lights and a few others so my father can install them. We will know the costing of this hopefully by the end of the week

Also the request for the deposit came through, which needs to be paid by the end of the week.

A few things happening, but then it feels like nothing is happening!