25-07-2010

Our waffle-pods delivered!

Our wire mesh delivered to our driveway.

Our house taking shape.

Week 3 (Post Site Start) 22-07-2010

These are the latest pictures taken 3 weeks post site start. There has been some progress but the past week or so the weather hasn't been too kind. Anyway here are the latest pics :)

New bustops getting built around Aurora. These are approx. 50 meters from our home.

Pipes laid and ground levelled with gravel.

Recycled water and regular tap at front of house.

Finally we have Site Start!!! 01-07-2010

errr this is me, updating this blog on behalf of my dear hubby. So...the following photos are updates of our building. Finally, things have started moving. Hooray! The end. :p

Brick mix-up!?

I was looking at the brick manfacturer's website (Austral Brick) and discovered that the brick we have selected ("Malt") looks quite different to the picture we posted much earlier on our blog (i think that one is called "Mushroom"). I always thought our brick would be fairly light but it could be lighting at the gallery playing tricks on our eyes, or the gallery could have had a brick mix-up, or the manufacturer could have changed the brick's colour since it was 6 months ago when we saw it. Anyway here is the picture of the brick "Malt" taken from the brick manufacturer's website and to be honest i quite like this one! However we opted for natural grey mortar rather than off-white mortar shown in this picture, reason being that the front of our house will be fully rendered, plus it costs $1000 to "upgrade" to off-white mortar. We don't think it will look too bad :)

Our land has finally settled!!

Yay!!! Our land has finally settled on the 12th of March!! :D After being told December 2009, it got delayed till Januray 2010, then February, and finally it got settled by our conveyancer and all parties involved on the 12th of March which is the same day our lease ended on the rental property. What a coincidence.. We are not homeless btw :p and have just moved to a new rental property.

So there we go, now we just wait till the bank gives us the green light to go ahead with building our house.

Some nicer pictures of Aurora :) :)

Pictures taken today of some of the parks and facilities available at Aurora right now. I drove over today to play some basketball (court approx 1km from where we are building) after work and realised the grass was sooooooooo green! All thanks to recycled water being readily available at Aurora's gardens and parks, plus the heavy rain we had for the past week. Anyway here are some pictures, quite a bit different to the grey dusty construction site pictures you all have been seeing :p


BBQ area + Park (1 km from our house)






















Check out the GREEEEEEN grass!!





















Basketball court, not half a court like some estates (1 km from house)





















Future tennis courts x 4!! (1 km from house)





















Another popular park near the display village.





















A nice small park between a group of houses.

Happy New Year! So lets get down to it!

We finally have some progress after the Xmas and New Year's break! I can see some work done to our street and pedestrain walking. So it shouldn't be too long before our land gets titled (end of Januray 2010 we were told, meant to be November 2009) and then construction can finally begin!





















Our street sign is up!