Kitchen and interior design ideas

Cover for the range hood 

Kitchen cupboards

Kitchen drawers

Overall kitchen look

Design panels under the bench

Glass feature door leading to hallway

Bathroom cabinet

Wall feature which we want to do down the hallway after handover

Dream list! Would love something like this going down our hill! 

Deposit Variation

Today we travelled down to the central coast to get our pricing variation. 

Good news - our pricing came in well under our budget. 

Bad news - we couldn't get as much storage as we wanted in the garage and will need to put retaining walls in. 

While its not our perfect outcome its on we are happy with. Another plus is the addition of French doors from the bedroom to the 7mx2m verandah at the front of the house! 

It finally feels as though we are getting somewhere! 

Settlement

Our land has officially settled as of 2.15 this afternoon! 

Pre Selections Appointment

Today we had our preselections appointment with an interior designer. We went through all our options with regards to kitchens, bathrooms, flooring, handles etc. It all feels a lot more real now. We saw a display home a while ago which we want to utilise the colours and style of the kitchen:

The same house had some Great Wall feature skirting which we would like to eventually incorporate into our hallway. 

Land registration

We received notification of the land being registered today! Very exciting! It all begins!! 

Deposit paid

Well, after plenty of reshuffling with the design we have finally paid a deposit to McDonald Jones. 

However, we don't know our total amount or design changes yet! Unfortunately there is a price rise coming, and the only way we could secure the lower rates was to pay our deposit upfront with the written promise that it was refundable if we were not happy. Yay :) 

So, apparently our driveway is causing a number of issues. Because of the slope on the block we were presented with a number of ideas in order to get the correct gradient on the driveway. 

Firstly, to set the house further back on the block. I didn't even consider this as it would leave us with very little backyard which wasn't an option. The second option was to have a 1029 split in the house, which is massive, and the third was to lose the 2m of storage we had put in our garage. Unfortunately we had to lose the storage, and have requested to have it placed on the side. We'll see how that works out! 

Official contours

23/09/2014 - received our final contours...