Well here we are... We have taken the big jump and have decided that we are going to build a house together. When we first started looking at houses, I got very frightened of the amount of money building a home could cost. So we started looking at prebuilt houses that could do with a bit of renovating... However, the places we were looking at needed so much work and with the purchase price of the home in its current state being as high as they were, by the time we renovated it, we would be looking at close to the same amount as building our very own...
So we put a deposit on a block of land at The Hermitage with a 22sq home with the building company Rawson. We were totally excited and we told everyone we knew! Only to have the company ring us the next day and tell us that they had made a mistake with the price and that they would need to charge us more. Needless to say, we got our deposit back and felt heartbroken.
We were sitting at home the next day, feeling quite down, when I suggested looking online at Bingara Gorge. We found a block of land that looked perfect so we quickly got ready to go for a drive to check it out. Once there, the sales team were wonderful and took their time in talking to us about the development. The release in which we were interested in hadn't yet had roads built in and so was still blocked off to the public. The sales team made us a take away coffee and took us for a drive in their 4WD to the block we told them we liked from the plans. She also took us around the estate to show us where future developments will be. By the time we left, we had been there for nearly 2 hours and it was 5:00pm. As we were driving out, we had already made our decision... Bingara Gorge was going to be our new home! We set our alarm for 8:00am and as soon as the sales office opened, we were on the phone putting our deposit down.... Lucky as there were another couple who had been deliberating for a week over that very same block who went into the sales office an hour after we had bought it! Meant to be!
The same day as putting our deposit down on our block, we headed out to the display village where our most favourite home design was situated... The Talbot 28 with Metricon. After a few minor structural changes, and opting for the alfresco design instead of having a rumpus room, we had put our deposit down on our dream home! Excited was an understatement!
After 9 months of waiting, colour selecting, external selections, electrical appointments and more.... We have finally begun!
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