Project Regent

Black Tar!

Today while taking Marty’s parents out to show them where our new home will be we discovered that we now have a sealed road!  I love the fact that every weekend when we visit our home site something new has been added!

Now all we need is for them to take the fence down from around the development area so we can actually step foot on our bit of dirt!

Oh my!! We’re building a house!  Well subject to the bank giving us the money.

We’re putting it out to the Universe that this IS going to happen so we’ve started the process before we actually have finance approval.  No use sitting back waiting for those bastards to get their act together!

So I gather you want to know where, what and all that good stuff?  Well Point Cook is the location and we’ve select Porter Davis as the builder (more of that in a bit).  The background of our blog is a photo of our actual block of land.  Pretty isn’t it.  As I’m sure you guessed it’s still quite some time from being ready to build.  We’re expecting titles to be released in June sometime, and that is when we’ll find out our house number.  Mikey’s calculations (based on no theory at all) put it as being either 12, 23 or 24 - depending on how they number the blocks.  We’re happy with anything really.

Last Monday we spent our public holiday out at Point Cook getting the quote for the house and selecting our block of land.  There is a bit of a land shortage in the west of Melbourne at the moment so we had a choice of 2 blocks, both exactly the same, both in the same street and both the same price.  We picked this particular one based on our neighbours surnames - nothing scientific there.

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The first time we went through the display home we both just loved the layout and the way it flows.  Here is an image of the floorplan.  We did make some changes from the standard, but nothing major.  Bedroom 4 on the plan is by standard an open study, we added doors to the ensuite and robe in the master bedroom (they get you for everything), and door between the garage and the house and added the two small windows next to the sliding door off the family/meals area.  We’ve added lots more but you’ll hear about those along the way.

So it’s all very exciting, but also a little scary.  Its a lot of money, but also make a lot of sense.  We’ll be sure to keep you up dated along the way so come back and follow our journey to Point Cook.

Mikey & Marty.