Home Owners!

Last Tuesday the 6th December 2011, Jeffrey and I officially became home owners for the first time ever! Our house was finished and was handed over to us, all ready to start making it our own. This week has been a blur of packing, moving, unpacking, shopping and cleaning. Our furniture, fridge/freezer and washing machine arrived too!


My parents and Jeff’s parent have helped me move, unpack and build our furniture as Jeffrey has been busy working each day! I am absolutely exhausted and it’s by no means finished yet! Tomorrow we move all of our clothes, bed, computer etc into the house and actually start living in it. How excited!!!!!

I think it’s going to take quite a while before we are actually settled in the house and now that it’s school holidays, I have plenty of time to arrange and re-arrange everything until I’m happy with it! I could probably sleep for a week too!

Merry Christmas to us, we are so very blessed!

First load!

The Dad's putting together the outdoor table!

Shiny new fridge and Freezer!

Keep an eye out for photos of our new house once everything is in it's place! I can't wait to share!

A Place to Call Home

House progress is going great at the moment! Settlement date is now set for the end of next week, though it maybe change a little bit if anything gets held up. Really all that is left to do is have the carpets installed, painting finished, electrical finished, shower/door screens installed, plumbing finished and deck finished off. And most of that is pretty close to being done!


I couldn’t be happier with how all of our colours have turned out. It’s pretty hard to get everything matching perfectly from little colour samples but we’re both pretty happy with the outcome. It’s a nice, bright and airy house, which is exactly what we’ve both wanted all along!

On the weekend just gone, we spent almost every waking moment at the house painting. Our team of Jeffrey, myself, my parents and Jeff’s parents managed to get a HUGE amount done! We’re very proud of ourselves and it even looks great. The main reason that we managed to get so much done was because of a friend of ours lending us his spray gun! We are very blessed!

So come Christmas holidays (just under 3 weeks) we should be moving into our brand new, first ever house! We’ve got all our furniture ordered and our fridge/freezer and washing machine is all ready to be delivered. Today we spend the afternoon wandering around bunnings looking at things we still need (and things we don’t need). We bought some door mats and picked out a few other bits and bobs to buy later!

We are two very happy people, all ready to move into our first EVER house! Now I’m off to continue the exciting packing! Wooooo!

Snuggles enjoying her first walk on our deck!

My most favourite part of the house! Isn't it lovely?

Our tiles! At first we were disappointed because they put the wrong ones in, now we love them!

Running water at last!

Coffee for the hard working painters!

Preparing to start our painting weekend!

Hard working painter

Another hard working painter!

Following instruction to start using the spray gun!

Jeffrey spraying the bedroom.

Painting is messy business!

Decision Making

Are you a good decision maker? I’m not, if I have to make a decision I like a good solid week to think, research, talk, think some more and totally change my mind a thousand times. In fact, I’d go as far as saying, I hate making decisions!


No one tells you just how many decisions there is to make when your building a house. It sounds like common sense but you don’t expect there to be quite so many! Today alone we had to make decisions on, exterior paint, deck paint, cupboards, lounge chair colour, shape, size, outdoor setting, railings and I’m sure there was more. My brain is seriously frazzled and I think it might take a few months after this house is finished to regain my sanity and feel okay about making decisions.

Probably the worst part is having to make choices so quickly and hope they are the correct ones. Once the house is painted there is no way I’m shelling out more money to re-paint it if we don’t like it!

So that’s how everything is going at the moment. We are really very close to the end now and things are crazy. Our deck started getting build today along with tiling, bathroom and painting. We start painting the inside in just over a week as well!

Hand Over

We found out this week that our hand over date for the house has been set for 28th November, which is just over 3 weeks time from now! Of course this is if everything goes to plan with the builder and delivery of everything. I’m thinking it will be a little bit longer than that because we still have to paint the house.

Today I got to have another walk through and the plastering is finished, flooring has been laid and the interior doors are on. It’s looking more and more like a house each time I see it. The undercoat of paint has now gone on the outside and we’re having some test colours painted next week so we can choose an exterior colour.

The really exciting stuff happens next week as they are installing the kitchen, tiling the whole house and starting the deck. I cannot wait to see these things finished! Also tomorrow, Mum and Dad are taking Jeffrey and I down to Ikea to look at furniture. We’re pretty sure of what we are going to get but are looking at Ikea for ideas. On Sunday we will hopefully be ordering all of our furniture! Seriously so excited about that! I’m pretty sure Jeff is even more excited than I am haha!

And finally, this week I started packing our stuff ready for the new house. Not the day to day things we use but all of our house things that I’ve collected over the years! Packing making it all the more real to be honest!

Lock Up Stage

Today the builder told us that our house is now at Lock Up Stage! It can’t have been more than 4 weeks since they started building! It’s insane how fast they can put up a house, though ours isn’t actually complicated or big.

I’m most looking forward to seeing the kitchen go in and see our deck built out the back! I’ve now started searching high and low online for decorating and landscaping ideas. We’re going for the minimalistic look I think which is good because our budge too is minimalistic!

House Progress

If you’re my friend on facebook then you will see I’ve got a photo album with our house progress. I just love looking at the photos of the land than flicking through to see our house slowly but surely going up. Jeff and I drive past every day that we can to see what has been happening and are very excited at each new thing we see! Today the roof was going on… but it rained! But there is still plenty of time this week for it to go on and I can’t wait!

It’s all very exciting but reality is really beginning to hit home with me that we will be moving into our first home soon! Scary stuff! We had our first walk through of the house at frame stage on the weekend just gone and now my mind is in overdriving thinking about where I want to put everything and whether we’re going to have enough room for everything we own so far! For only being married 1 year, we had A LOT of stuff!

The next thing we get to do is go into the house and choose where we’d like power points, phone plugs and TV ports! It’s not as easy as I first thought it would be!!!!!!

In other news we sold our Polo for the price we wanted and I just finished a 2 week contract with a not so lovely class. So I’m enjoying a little bit of well earned rest before getting back into relief and my tafe course! (And I got my first Cluster of Assignments back which I pass woohoo!)

1 Week later

So I wrote this post about a week ago and all of a sudden life got busy and I didn’t get a chance to post it up. In that time I’ve had some relief work, the roof has gone on our house, windows in and power points installed!

Our Wedding Journal - Printed

Way back when Jeff and I were planning our wedding, you may have seen or read Our Wedding Journal. This was a blog I wrote in often to keep a record of our wedding planning and to keep our friends and family who were interested up to date on our wedding and all those special little moments we had along the way. I absolutely loved writing posts about what was going on in our lives as we planned our wedding and I also even now love reading back over those things and remembering how excited I felt.

When the wedding planning was coming to an end, Jeff suggested that I might like to somehow keep the wedding blog so that in years to come I could look back on it or even share it with family and friends. So with his blessing I spent hours transforming our online blog into book form using the Photobook Australia software.

And this morning it arrived in the mail!!! To say that I love it would be an understatement. I purchased it in the cheapest form possible because it needed so many pages but it is still amazing quality and looks great! This must be how an author feels when they receive their 1st  published book which they've pained over for many long hours. So here it is, Our Wedding Journal!!!!