Quick update - including house

[elissande]

There have been three distinct stages over my holidays. The first was spent in Canberra, mainly cooking but also being with my parents and catching up with what friends I could - oh, and sweltering until Christmas day. I've already mentioned the food I cooked and will follow up more on that in Elysantskitchen sometime soon (really). Christmas we got packing boxes

Comments

[little_foxy]

not quite what I was expecting in regards to your block, but if it fits, is within your price range and has what you want then yay!!

Glad to hear that you have reached a decision! Have fun with all the paperwork.

[elissande]

Wel, it's actually very narrow and allows us to keep most of the outdoor area that we have. It won't be sited directly facing the front, so that we can get more of a north facing aspect. Curious as to what you were expecting? There were lots of other ones we would have preferred, but they all came in outside our budget. :(

[little_foxy]

I don't think I was expecting double storey... but then you block is quite narrow at the front.

Keeping the existing outdoor area is always good :)

[elissande]

We looked at singel story and we could fit many of them on the block, but they really allowed very little variation in the aspect due to the shape of the block. Also, most of them seemed to have the main bedroom at the front. We want it at the back so that we're not so disturbed by our occasionally noisy neighbours.

[i_ate_my_crusts]

Yay for new hot water system. May it give you many happy showers.

I can see that house working for you -- given modifications for pantry and walk-in wardrobe(s).

I'm also amused that I didn't see that you'd planed for more walk-in robe when I wrote the above comment, but assumed you would want it based on looking at the floorplans.

[elissande]

Hopefully we won't require too many showers from this system. We're looking at more environmentally friendly options for the new house.

And yes, you've seen the way we alter houses as we go around looking at them. That would give you an idea of what we would want to do. Btw, it's a much smaller house than the one we were originally thinking of, which is probably a good thing. :)