We have a rental !!!!!!!

YIPEEEEEE !!!!!! And whilst it is a little 'pink' (pink carpets, walls, skirting, laminate and sinks) it is a great size and is a means to an end.

I will be tripping the light fantastic when our house is built, lol.....

Looks like we will be moving around the 26-29th of this month...better get packing !

Runaround............

No luck with the rental app. Apparently the landlord doesn't want dogs and wants minimum 12 month lease.....Why in the hell the RE agent couldn't have told me that before making me inspect the property, fill in applications and ring the references is beyond me...... ARRGHHHHHHHH !

Anybody want a 4 year old Golden Retriever ?

Rental Roundabout......

Have finally got my backside into gear this week and started lookling at rentals. With two young kids and a dog I am not liking our chances, especially as we only want an 8 month lease !

Applied for a house today, fingers crossed it is all ok...................

Nothing else to report. We have our contract signing on the 27th of this month, with a start date of first week in July. It can't come soon enough !

SOLD !!!!!!!!!!!.

Yes, that's right, our house has officially sold !!!!!!!!!!! It ended up selling for nearly double what we paid so can't complain about that !

Bought our floorboards and carpet today. Total $7760. PD originally quoted approx $12k, so nice little saving there.....

These are the boards......Carpet is a plush "donkey Grey'..........Hmmmm it was SO hard choosing. Especially when Jase doesn't like pale floorboards but all our furniture is dark wood......... We are very happy with out choice though !

That's about it for the house now......looking for an outdoor lounge like this, and at $599 will prolly end up getting this one, lol !

Touch wood......

Looks like our house may have sold.....Purchaser is just waiting on unconditional approval from his bank. Should know late today/early tomorrow where we stand.

In the meantime I have been spending all our 'future' money on new furnishings.....

I am lusting after two of these chairs in a patterned fabric

We have two three seater "toorak" lounges from Freedom in cream and I think these chairs with a fabric with a pale pattern would go nicely....

Have also picked out the chairs I want at the 'breakfast bar'

No more news on the new home progress. Have left two messages for our CSR to get back to me regarding the prices for all the upgrades we have chosen.......Am expecting the colour upgrades to be about $5-$6k

Have heaps of ideas for the landscaping of the backyard........At present I am trying to find an outdoor lounge setting in rattan with cushions for the alfresco area.......

I LOVE LOVE LOVE shopping, lol .....

Colour my world.........

Had colour and electrical selections yesterday. Who would have thought that we would go over budget on electricals by about $2k *oopps* It's all the downlights fault, oh and an extra powerpoint here and there, and a chrome ceiling fan for the alfresco........

Colours went well. The hardest decision for us was the colour of the render......It is all locked in now so hopefully we won't get a nasty shock when we see it all put into practice.

Jase got his "jarrah" garage door, hope he likes it, price was a whopping $1200 !!!

Of course, everything that we liked was an 'upgrade' surprise surprise, nevermind we are happy to pay extra if it means we get exactly what we want. We know all too well from building this house that often you skimp on things thinking that you will change them later and it just never happens......

I'm baaackkkkkk !!!!!

Our modem died last week so have been incommunicado. Just as well really, considering all the dramas we are having *roll eyes*

Our house is still on the market, we are not happy with the real estate agent but that's a whole other story.

Our mortgage broker told us that our finance for the land was approved when she hadn't even sent the paperwork in !!!!! Therefore our deposit date had to be extended as does our rebate, land settlement and tender date with PD...ARRRGHHHHHH !!!!!! I am SO over inefficiancy !!!!

Anyhoo, upwards and onwards.....Jase and I are doing out tile selections this Friday and colour and electricals next Tues......

Some of the items we have chosen are below and so are our house plans

http://www.porterdavis.com.au/content/Houses/Paddington/Floorplans/paddington23.pdf

Our front door, although we are having it stained rather then painted:

Our roof tiles:

Our bricks:

That's about it for now.........Til next time !

Bathroom selections begin......

We have chosen Laminex 'fudgestream' for our vanity units in the bathroom...

With Porcher square twin basins in the ensuite and single basin in the main bathroom....

The shower will be white tiles with a pebble insert. The bath will be tiled with white with a pebbled insert recess in the wall. Floor tiles will be a pale fawn/taupe colour.

No news is good news........

Am having a shite week. Wish our bloody house would sell (yes, I know, it's only been ont he market ofr a week, I mean what do I expect *roll eyes*).....

Had 2 groups through on Saturday and 9 on Sunday. Out of those 3 groups were interested. It is just soooooo draining keeping the house up to insepction standard, especially with two busy little boys.

Our file has now gone to PD head office. Should be doing the colour and tile selections in the next two or three weeks.Jase will have to have a day off work as the interior place is only open during the week........

For those interested we are building the fully optioned Paddington 23.

Start date is first week of June. The land has cleared so hopefully there will be no delays adn we will be in before Christmas.

Taking our first steps............

Checked out our land on Friday night with the boys. We already have a pile of mulch on it, with compliments of the developers who are mulching all the nature strips. Of course, the boys had to climb to the top of 'their mountain', lol

And then of course Jase had to check out the crossover for size, lol !

Looks ok to me.

Whats cooking, good looking.....

Why is choosing a colour scheme for the kitchen sooooooo hard ? Jase has his ideas and I have mine, and of course, mine are the best, lol.......



I think we have managed to come to an agreement and this is pretty much how our kitchen will look.........

The only real difference will be the rangehood, ours is retractable and inside the overhead cupboards. That is pretty much the floor colour we are after too.

I am currently obseesed with glass splashbacks much to Jases frustration (I think they may be out of our budget, lol)

Our little piece of Paradise.......

So, today is the day our finance for land has been approved. YIPPEEEEEEE !!!!



Now we just need to sell our house and all our troubles will be far away (well, for the time being anyway, lol)


Can't believe we are going to build again. Hopefully this time will be just as easy as the first.


We are building with www.porterdavis.com.au and getting all our 'dream' inclusions so this should be the last time we move for quite a while.

This is the residents (& guests) only resort that is 150 meters up the road. Already the boys can't wait to use the pool.

We are only 50 meters away from these wetlands.......

We are off to finalise our variations in the new house tonight. Hopefully we haven't forgotten anything.

We signed with an agent to put our home on the market on Monday. Hopefully it will sell reasonably quickly otherwise we could be in a spot of bother. Ah well, whats life without a few dramas, lol

Stay tuned for more updates......