Fascia and Gutter!

Hi all,

Windows, fascia and gutters all went up this week!

Starting to look like a house! too bad bricks will only go up in mid January (just got confirmation from CLE on friday)

Anyhow, here are the pictures!

Slab and Frame up!

2 days from mud to slab and frame!?

It has been raining all week and especially bad on Wednesday! I'm not sure whether it is a good thing the slab went down on Thursday - Bit wet I would have thought? But I've been to the site yesterday (saturday) - they look ok!? Hopefully the slab will be ok and does not have any adverse effect in the long run.

Here are the pics taken yesterday.

No Slabs yet :(

After 2 weeks of raining.. I didn't even bother to check my build until yesterday (>10days) ... Still no slabs on-sight..

There are steel cables sitting on our neighbour's driveway (vacant land still) which I think its for my foundation however. Some soil movement and that's it. Bit disappointed but what can you do when rain just kept coming?

Forecasts for Melbourne is still NOT GOOD! Shower and Storm for the entire week days... :(

Maybe slabs will not go up this week afterall..

Site Scraped Photos

This afternoon I finally drove by our land to check out our "site scrape". Really excited to see some movement on our land!! Portaloo is up and operational!

Here are the photos!

That's it! Upcoming post will hopefully be with slab poured (scheduled next thursday!)

Colour Selection!

Here are colour selections! :)

Colour Selection:
Roof Tiles - Tudor Barramundi

Colorbond Gutter/Fascia/Downpipes - Jasper

Colorbond Flashing - Surfmist

Garage Door - Profile (Tuscan) - Evening Haze

Aluminium Windows - Jasper
Front Door - Evening Haze

Render Front Portico Projection - Strong Strawberry









Render Front Portico - Deep Walnut

Ceiling/Cornice - Hog Bristle 1/4

Walls - Hog Bristle 1/4



Skirting/Architraves - Hog Bristle 1/2
Internal Doors - Hog Bristle 1/2
Kitchen/Ensuite Caesarstone Benchtop - Osprey

Bathroom Vanity Benchtop - New Ash Dust

Cabinet Laminex - Blackened Linewood

Glass Splashback - Nile Clay P14B5

Carpet - Godfrey Hirst Maybrook - Misty Haze

(Can't remember what colour that was!? Beigey type of colour)

Floor Tiles - 400x400 Still Beige
Shower/Vanity Tiles - Gloss Ice Cream (White) 100x300
Bath Hob Tiles - Gloss Ash Latter (White) 100x300
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I reckon the house is a tad bit too neutral tone hey? Bit worried of how its going to look at the end. Hopefully it will be fine! :) Guess we'll find out in few months time!!

House Inclusions

Here are the inclusions that we have made for the house!

Facade - Copeland

Value Plus offer
Cat 1 Caesarstone kitchen Benchtops and Ensuite vanity top (20mm)
Garage door remote
Dishwasher
Flyscreens
Cat 1 400mm x 400mm tiles to Entry, Kitchen, Meals area.
Cat 1 Carpet to remainder of the house
Ducted Vacuum
4 Zone Security System
385mm High "H" Class Waffle Raft slab
Bricks - Austral Bricks "Fawn" Access bricks.


Upgrades
2110mm x 3213 wide aluminium entertainer door to Family/Afresco
Trilock to Entry
Double Glazed windows throughout
2 2040mm x 720mm wide flush panel hinged doors to Rumpus
1 2040mm x 720mm wide flush panel hinged door to Master Suit WIR
1675mm (contour) white spa bath to bathroom.
2 Additional junction boxes.
1 Additional single floodlights.
1 Additional double floodlights.
7 Additional double internal power points.
1 Additional double external power point.
Starserve four pack which includes:
4 No. TV points
8 No. data/phone points
1 No. Cable TV point.
1 No. Starserve Slim line enclosure.
1 No. Gas point to Alfresco.
Evaporative Cooling Provision.
1 Additional heating outlet to Bathroom and Ensuite.
R2 Soundscreen insulation to Rumpus.
Silver tile trim to bathroom bath hob.
Premium carpet underlay.

+ all standard inclusions.

I will put in some of our color selections that we have chosen in later.

Riverton from Carlisle Homes!

You can check out the Riverton from Carlisle Homes.

I'm really interested to how my personal Riverton will look like at the end of the construction :)

I will post some of my colour selections and upgrades! Hope they will not turn out to be an "eye-sore"... keeping my fingers crossed!

My land!

This is our piece of land just before settlement!

Adventure began 6 months ago

Just to keep you in the loop of how we got HERE!

Everything began in April 2010, when we decided to purchase a piece of land for ourselves and to construct a beautiful house in the future.

We had a look around few new housing estates in Victoria and found a piece of land which we really liked!

The piece of land was originally planned for release in July but eventually delayed until sometime October. It was few months of painful waiting - although it did gave us a few more months of extra savings :)

Land finally settled and I've it passed onto Carlisle Homes for exciting bits.

My first build blog!

Hi!

As we are currently just starting our construction(Site Scraped!).

I thought I might as well record this on a blog so it can be shared to every one who are interested!

This is our first home and we are very much excited about the whole process!

Thanks!

Jin & LeAnn