Thursday, March 19, 2009

Beginnings...

Late last year we made the decision to become home owners - this is the story of our journey.

In October we got serious about it - spurred on my the Australian Governments generosity with their boost to the First Home Owners Grant - and started looking at house designs and blocks.

We've looked before but each time got carried away by the beauty of all of those big 'dream' homes with foyers, galleries, powder rooms, and other stuff that we really didn't need. This time we took a different approach and looked at what our priorities were in a house (what we needed and what we think would be a good investment/rental) and what land was available in a price we could afford and that would fit the house we wanted.

It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation - land first or house first?.....

Our priorities were....


  • 3 bedrooms
  • 2 separate living spaces; and
  • preferably a study or 4th bedroom.

Soon enough we found a combination that worked. Right house... right block... right price.... and so we put down holding deposits on both the land and the house and started the ball rolling.

Our land is in the Wyndella Estate - a small estate in Truganina (near Hoppers Crossing) east of Melbourne.

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Our builder is Simonds and our plan is the Hillcrest. We've kept everything as it is in the plans except we switched the sliding door from the family room to the meals area (made more sense to us that way) and added a roller door to the rear of the garage. Oh and our house is flipped so that the garage is on the left.

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