Contracts recieved today!

As im working away from home, my wife tells me she has recieved contracts today! Nice! apparently 3 copies of a billion pages each.. oh well, spoke to bank today who are more than happy to lend us the cash.. Moving along nicely!

Colour Selections ... DONE!

Today was the colour selections day and i have to say we breezed through it with the help of fantastic colour consultant (Erin). Bamboo coffee flooring, licorice linea bathroom cabinets, kitchen bottom cupboards, white overhead cupboards polyurathane glossy etc. Will post photos tomorrow. Spent way more than i wanted but wanted all the little things like changing door handles etc.

Phew a stressful day to start with but awesome outcome.

Drawings signed, Colour appointment booked!!!

We went to meet Heather from MJH in south Nowra and the experience was awesome. She pointed out the garage gable being off centre which my wife and i just didnt see regardless of how many times we looked at it. So adjustments made and we signed prelims drawings!

On another note (yes MJH are moving quickly) we booked in our colour appointment for the 1st of Feb. Its all moving quicker than i expected. Colours is scaring me a little as it just seems to be a little daunting with all the choices we need to make on the day. Hoping we get Erin who was the lady that did the colour walk through last December

Prelim Drawings

McDonald Jones havent wasted anytime over the holidays, just got the call to say that our preliminary drawings are done and being sent out to us. Things are moving ahead nicely! :)

Good News and Awful News ...

Good news is that we recieved the consolidated tender today from mcdonald jones so we are progressing nicely in that department.

The awful news is that a part of that, the soil tests came back and said that the soil classification is H1 / P ... I just feel so devastated about this and dont know what to do with this predicament. Im thinking about pulling out of the whole thing and just cutting my losses before anything else bad happens... Damn it all!

Ummmm oops

Well my missus pointed out that i didnt tell everyone what we will build. Its the Bronte Executive by McDonald Jones!! We love this house and saw the bigger version at lochinvar (maitland). The only house that we only had to do minor changes to.

Heres the link http://www.mcdonaldjoneshomes.com.au/page19814/Home-Designs--Property-Detail.aspx?propertyID=82

We went with the 3 garage option and American colonial facade "C"

Pre Selections walk through

Spent an hour and a bit at the Baulkham Hills office going though all the selections that we will have to tackle on Selections day... So many options but i think the walkthrough helped us focus our attention to the bits we want. The best news to come out of it for me was that the flooring can be installed before they put on skirting boards so there will be no ugly beading around the edges! Awesome!!! Of course we will be spending some money on things we "must" have but will blog that wjhen we make the choices.