Weekend and house update
Nov. 9th, 2009 01:39 pmOn Saturday morning we headed down to Canberra - via Elderslie (southwest of Sydney) to check out a few more display homes. It feels like we've been doing this a lot, but, in fact, most of the visits to display villages have been very short and fitted in between various other things that have been booked up for the weekends. I think we now have a few clear weekends to do some intensive investigation.
Anyway, there was another home that we wanted to check out at this particular display village and looked through a few other houses while we were there. It's a relatively small display area and there were only 12 houses to look at, so we looked at them all. The one we went to look at specifically was ok and a bit cheaper than the current front-runner, but it would require more alterations, so maybe not cheaper in the final analysis. We did see a couple of single storey houses that would be suitable - if only they didn't take up so much of the land. We want to keep as much of the garden as possible and a double storey does achieves this more easily, but we're certainly not counting singel storey out at this stage.
I've also signed in for a design report with Archicentre. If we can get something more suited to our needs for what we can afford, then it's all to the good. We'll see. At least it made me feel as if we'd actually done something constructive about the house rather than just looking at stuff, even though looking at stuff and doing the research is important.
The trip to Canberra was really just to catch up with my parents and to see how they were going. We hadn't made it down there since my father's birthday when he ended up in hospital. They both seem to be doing well. In fact, my mother is on new medicine that has her up and about again. Now she's moving much more easily and has put a bit of weight back on and is looking much better.
Sorry we didn't catch up with anybody down in Canberra, but I'll have more time over the Christmas when I'm down there for about a week. Doesn't look like S will be able to make it though, as he has to work. Poot!
Anyway, there was another home that we wanted to check out at this particular display village and looked through a few other houses while we were there. It's a relatively small display area and there were only 12 houses to look at, so we looked at them all. The one we went to look at specifically was ok and a bit cheaper than the current front-runner, but it would require more alterations, so maybe not cheaper in the final analysis. We did see a couple of single storey houses that would be suitable - if only they didn't take up so much of the land. We want to keep as much of the garden as possible and a double storey does achieves this more easily, but we're certainly not counting singel storey out at this stage.
I've also signed in for a design report with Archicentre. If we can get something more suited to our needs for what we can afford, then it's all to the good. We'll see. At least it made me feel as if we'd actually done something constructive about the house rather than just looking at stuff, even though looking at stuff and doing the research is important.
The trip to Canberra was really just to catch up with my parents and to see how they were going. We hadn't made it down there since my father's birthday when he ended up in hospital. They both seem to be doing well. In fact, my mother is on new medicine that has her up and about again. Now she's moving much more easily and has put a bit of weight back on and is looking much better.
Sorry we didn't catch up with anybody down in Canberra, but I'll have more time over the Christmas when I'm down there for about a week. Doesn't look like S will be able to make it though, as he has to work. Poot!