Exterior Style

 

 

The Dream house plans are in full swing right now, lots of finalising of ideas & getting enough quotes to satisfy the bank.

When you decide to be an owner builder the banks want to know every last detail, they take your plans & quotes & hand them to an estimator who then determines whether or not you really can build that home for that amount of money.

 

I know this is a very poor quality pic of the elevations of our home, but it gives the general idea.

We have a long straight homestead style front verandah with a portico at the entrance as a feature & out the back we have a nice big back verandah/ alfresco area that extends out from the house, similar to the one in the image below.

 



 

 

These are just some of the images we are using as ideas to achieve our end result.

We love white post & rails, upstairs we will have a painted white bead board style ceiling & downstairs we plan to do the same only stain the timber.

This stair case is exactly what we need!

 

 

Love these posts & we will have timber on the front verandah

 

 

We would like some stone features like this & will have to tile the upstairs back verandah for water proofing otherwise it would leak into the downstairs area....

now that wouldn't be much fun, he he he!!!

 

 

A very welcome entrance, wouldn't you agree...

 

 

 

We have so many ideas & I have to say pinterest has been a fabulous tool for the dream guy & I to gather images & tutorials & ensure we are on the same wave length.

He has become addicted to my pinterest boards.

 

If you start seeing tools, boats & fishing gear popping up on my pinterest then you know the dream guy as hijacked my boards, ha ha ha :)

 

If you would like to see more of what has us inspired then stop by my

pinterest board

 

What do you think of our ideas so far?

Now don't forget I am keen for your thoughts, ideas & suggestions!

 

Have a fantastic weekend everyone.

 

CHEERS

Trish xxx

Stylish Master Bedroom

Image via Houzz

 

We really are into some serious planning for the construction of the dream house at the moment. Actual construction may not begin until later in the year because, as you can imagine ALOT of planning needs to occur before anything on this large scale can begin.

We will be tackling this as owner/builders.

There are quotes to obtain & products to source.

Most importantly, the bank has said "go for it" & given us a list of what they require to finance us as owner builders.

 



Image via House of turquoise

 

 

The dream guy is good at this sort of thing having project managed many large scale electrical jobs as a part of his business, so really all I need to do is plan the pretty stuff. We are both very visual people so I do need to provide images of my expectations of the finished product.

I am wanting some sort of pendant light or small chandelier as bedside lighting instead of lamps & I thought these images are a great representation of that idea, especially the first pic as we will have windows either side of our bed as well!

 

 



Image via Swish & Swanky

 

I have a little silver table just like this one which I would like sitting next to a feature chair in my bedroom

 

 



Image via Centsational Girl

 

 

Once again the bedside windows, I have a similar shaped bedhead to this only in timber.

The round mirror in this image is pretty fabulous don't you think?

 

Hopefully once the house is complete there will be a few dollars left to buy some new accessories & update some of our furniture...depends on how much self control we have when selecting those fixtures & fittings I suppose !!!

 

If there is one thing I have learn't over time from blogging " details are important "

 Get the details right & you get a really beautiful end product.

I will be asking your advise as I go along just to be sure I get it right!!

 

Are you all about the details?

 

CHEERS

Trish xx

Building the dream house, an update

Hi- Dee-Ho peeps!!

 

I know I have certainly been absent from my blog of late.

My excuse.....

 

Well aside from this new 45hr a week job eating up all of my time, my laptop was hi jacked by a

 Mal ware virus, it literally was a virus that hijacked my start up menu, no fun!!

 

 

 

Any way our fabulous tech guy, Gary, put us onto a FREE scan to download.

Its called Mal ware bytes.

 

www.malwarebytes.org

 

I highly recommend you get this one on your computer ASAP, you run it alongside your normal virus scan, it picks up the things your usual scan misses.

 

 

 

 

 

Now onto the good gossip.

The dream house is back on....YAAA HOOOO!!

 

As you know, we couldn't build until we sold our 4 investment properties in The Blue Mountains & after having them listed with the same real estate agent for 3.5 years & not selling a single thing we really gave up hope.

Well, decided to give it one last shot & changed Realtors.

 

 

 

Our new agent sold the first property within a week, we are now 7 weeks into it & have 2 bidders vying for another property & an interested party looking at a the 3rd one. We still have one home to list, it has a good tenant & we had considered keeping it but what the heck, lets list it & see what happens.

 

 

This new guy has shown more people thru our houses in 7 weeks than the old agent did in all those years, I think its time for him to find a new day job, he is a little slack at this one.

 

 

 

So we will start building in 2013.

We will be owner builders,the dream guy is very clever at building things & has done alot of project management in his job as well.

 Its going to be a slow but steady pace & will give me plenty of time to seek your advice along the way.

 

 

 

I'm very very excited!!!!

 

Have a fabulous week bloggers :)))

 

CHEERS

Trish xxx