Construction Update - Week 27 - It's Ours!

And it's done.

Last Friday was a big day for us - we (actually my wife) drove to Narre Warren and picked up the keys to our new house.  Technically, we could have done this any time during the week, but with insurance to be organised, final bank paperwork and payments to be cleared, and the need to take an hour and a half to drive literally to the middle of nowhere (yep, that's Narre Warren :-) ), Friday was the first opportunity my wife had to pick up the keys following our final inspection last week.

And by total coincidence, Friday marked exactly 6 months since our site start on 12 March.

Overall it has been a good journey with Porter Davis and we are happy with the house and also the way the construction was managed.  Considering that we bought "off the plan" and that, having been builders previously, we didn't go into this expecting everything to go completely smoothly, we feel that we have got what we paid for been well-treated along the way.

Now starts the next phase of our project, which is getting the house ready to move in.   Key jobs for us between now and move-in day are:

• Installing the skirts over our timber floors - we agreed with Porter Davis to have our skirts delivered, but not installed, so that we did not have to have quad all around our downstairs
• Building a front fence - a priority given that we have bus-stop right outside our house
• Laying down a driveway - obviously required
• Landscaping - we want to try to get as much of this done as possible before the heat of summer
• Installing cabinets for the Walk-In-Pantry - we always planned to do the cupboards, robes and shelving fitouts our selves
• Installing cupboards and shelving in the Laundry
• Fit-out of shelving in the master walk-in-robe
• Fit-out of shelving in the bedroom walk-in-robe
• Fit-out of shelving in the bedroom 3 & 4 built-in robes
• Curtains, blinds and other window coverings
• Lighting
• Building our display shelving between the Living Room and Rumpus Room
• Decorating the kids bedrooms

Yikes that sounds like a lot when I list it out like that.

 

To kick things off, over the weekend, I painted all the skirts, ready to get them installed over the next couple of weeks.

Unfortunately, due to flat batteries, I didn't manage to take any photos over the weekend, but I will update this post with some when we get out there next.