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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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Grown up with grown up expenses

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Since the temporary fences are up on our land, I still can’t process the fact that construction of our home has finally started. We’ve waited for the title for a year and all these was all plans in my head. Now it’s time to execute those plans and it feels weird.

But this week helped me realize that all is really happening as our council rate came in the mail, our accounts have been debited for interest incurred on the mortgage and builder sent us claims for payment. You can’t get any more real than that!

Along with the additional workload with work, year end review and month end coming (as a finance person) this week has been overwhelming! But we all know this is all worth it 🙂

So for now, look at how the construction is progressing!

Click on the photo to see our timeline.
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