New Home Proposal

First and foremost I have to say a MASSIVE thank you to Jayne and Brett for helping prep Alex and I for our New Home Proposal meeting. I think I would have died of anxiety from all of the ‘unknowns’ which seem to come out in your New Home Proposal meeting. Xx

So, I may have worked myself up a little too much for this meeting and it actually wasn’t as scary as I thought it was going to be. It was actually great fun seeing exactly how the house was going to look inside and out and how it will be sited on our block. There were a few hidden costs and quite a few items that the Sales rep had miss-quoted but it wasn’t too killer. The main ‘unknown’ for us was finding out that our house is in a minor fire zone and so quite a few things had to be modified on the house.

Such as:

• All glass had to be strengthened
• All wood had to be a certain degree of flame retardant
• All weep holes and the whirlies on the roof had to have metal mesh added to them
• Fire safe seal around the garage door
• Fly screens had to be changed to a particular type of metal with smaller ‘holes’
• Flame retardant sarking around the wood frames (inside the walls)

All of these things are to prevent airborne ambers flying into the house and burning through and causing a fire. Luckily, we are in the lower end at about 12-12.5. Apparently this number goes all the way up to 40 so I would hate to think what you would have to do to a house in those conditions.

Rather be safe than sorry though and let’s hope we never have to deal with a bush fire.   

Appointment finished yahoo! Now long weekend with friends at the beautiful Noosa Heads

(image via Noosa YHA)

Porchlight Interiors

I always knew that when the time came to build a house I would hire the help of a designer to help select colours for the house (inside and out). Why spend all that money on a house to not invest an extra couple of hundred dollars to get it right?

Alex and I wanted a colour scheme of black, white, grey (all 50 shades) and taupe. We had general ideas on what colours we wanted where but wanted help on picking the exact shade and making it all work together, so we hired the help of Porchlight Interiors.

T from Porchlight Interiors came out to our house for a consultation to get a design brief from us. From there we had another appointment with her to go through the colours that she had selected and what we liked and didn’t like. T also came with me to help make a firm decision on tiles from Beaumont – I felt much more confident with my decisions once I had the tick of approval from a professional. 

Hiring an interior designer is not for everyone – but it’s definitely for me (and my indecisiveness) and well worth the money spent! I’ll definitely be having T come back to the house once it’s complete.