The purchase.

So after some time looking at established homes we found that not only is the market completely over-priced around the shire, but that we couldn't find that one house that we could see ourselves living in for the next 20 years.

After some suggestions from my father-in-law we went and looked at an old property on 697sqm of land.  What did we find you may ask, well a very old fibro house that had been lovingly looked after for many years, but better than that, we found potential and for the first time in weeks we were excited about the possibilities.  As things go within the world of real estate we signed a contract of purchase within 24 hours of viewing the house, and bam we were off and racing.

This is the frontage from the road

Some shots of the backyard as it current stands...

The little man standing in the drive about where the new garage will start

So were off to Masterton tomorrow to meet with the consultant regarding the new home proposal they have put together for us, some extra site costs involved apparently as there is a fall of about 1.7m across the site where the house will be positioned.  But were happy, we chose the Masterton Villina design with the Savoy Facade (changed the front windows to look like the Contemporary windows though) and we wont be going with the fake rock on the pillars.  Aside from those and the addition of an alfresco out the back we wont be changing the outward appearance of the house all that much.

This is the house at the display village at Warwick Farm

We're both really looking forward to getting on with it so we can be in late next year, hopefully Christmas 2010 will be in the comfort of our new home, fingers crossed, and I'm pretty sure that Chris can't wait for all that open space to run around and get dirty in...