Once upon a Mortgage.....


In a suburb very very far from many places, but not so far from Sydney CBD, there lived a family of Nathan, Vivien and the little prince Christopher.

Chapter 2

It has been a dark dark time for the family, the evil council has provided a great many headaches and delays as a result of their tyrannical grasp on power in the local area, but alas the side of good is prevailing.....
 
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So after a long long wait, between Colour Selections, Electrics Selections, issues with the storm water run-off and all manner of requestes from the council we have come to a milestone in our build (the second time around) and it appears that the council has finally approved the building for our new home! I should be excited I know but its a bit of an anti-climax really, we've worked so hard to get to this point but it feels slightly hollow given it wasn't our first choice of house and that the land we've had on the market still hasn't sold after the one real buyer we thought we had turned out to be a dud.
 
But in the end all we need to do now is pull down the old house, hopefully soon, and cash ourselves up as we have done everything that needs to be done and are basically waiting on the final cost from Masterton prior to starting the build, which means everything going well this 2.5 year process may actually result in us moving into our new home by mid 2011!! wow
 
So as an idea for what we are building here are some shots of the plans we have.
 

This is the site plans showing where the house will sit on the site
 

Front and Side Elevation
 

Rear and Side Elevation
 

Ground Floor plan
 

First Floor plan
 
Added to these plans are our electrics and 'colour selections'.  The downstairs will be Blackbutt Hardwood, sanded and polished with the exception of the front living space and the office, these like the upstairs will be carpeted.  As for the other important bits we chose well the house will be pre-wired for foxtel but we arent having data points going with a wireless network inside the house in lieu of hardwiring, an intercom (colour image) will be installed for the front door and a schmic alarm system with remotes for the cars is being installed as well.  The upstairs living and alfresco are all going to be wired with speakers for entertainment purposes, the kid(s) will have a ball with the surround sound in their rumpus in the long term.
 
So thats all there is really for the moment, hopefully the real action will commence soon and we can see some tangable results of all this money and time we have invested, bring on occupation date I say......