Author Archives: Karen Laguerta

House Plans: Facade

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(Hey, we obviously failed at blogmas!)

E-4 Facade. Photo shown from Eight Homes website

We picked the same facade above. Eight Homes’ Mernda display has the similar design except it has nicer eaves (which I wish we got but it will cost more $$).

The roof will be black, CSR Elabana Sambucca.

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The white painted walls will be bricks in Austral Settlers Parchment. Mortar will be in Natural.

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The rendered (brown) walls which will be painted in Dulux Weathershield Sea Elephant.

Garage doors will be the same slim line design in  Dulux Colorbond Surfmist.

Door will be a Corinthian solid timber in Dulux Gloss Whisper White. Front timber windows will be stained in Sikkens Rosewood 048.

If you’re still interested, gutters will be in black and down pipes will be in Dulux Paperbark! All other exterior doors and aluminum windows will be in Dulux Colorbond Dune.

Our exterior selections are similar to our builder’s previous pre-selected colours called “Desert Sands”. We are all for the light colors – white, beige and grey with the contrast of black.

We’ll have to fix the landscape, decking (if we decided we want to) and driveway after handover.

We woke up one day with more debt

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Blogmas is an internet meme to post every day in December leading up to Christmas. Obviously, we haven’t done that properly so this is a catching up.

Yesterday, the bank processed the payment for the base stage as they already received our FHOG. And as expected we woke up today with more debt I never imagined I can have. Not saying it’s really bad – that is usually the case with owning a house. It will only go upward from here til handover. But the goal now is to stay in control of the finances and out of any debt other than the house.

As an update on the construction, our frames and roof trusses are up. The exterior of the house is also now covered with the thermal covering (that’s what I was talking about the previous post re: waterproofing). Our site supervisor updated us that windows and gutters will be in today and is ready for another inspection. Then it will be pre-plaster stage.

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Window Shopping on Cyber Monday Deals

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It’s that time of the year. American Thanksgiving shopping deals! Always willing to spend on it early on the year but when this moment comes I’m just hesitant.

If we’re not building a house, I would buy this Saint Laurent 6 hour duffle bag. Almost 40% off plus 5% cash back from Ebates.

But that would be the same price as my washing machine and tv, so I think I can let go of that.

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From $1,990 down to $1,189