After the last few years of squirrelling away and fancy living in rentals its finally time to bite the bullet and look at getting a more permanent place for myself and my partner to set ourselves up.
Her friends had recently finished building houses, 1 couple with plantation homes and another with Dixon homes.
Both of them looks quite awesome, however El and I felt a particular affinity towards the Plantation house, it felt a little more Balinese(?) having more wooden features through the home, whilst still maintaining a modern look at the same time.
When building, there are a few things you want to do, figure out where you want, what you want/need in the house and what you can afford, taking both the previous criteria into consideration, - fortunately having been saving for the nearly the past decade gave us a little bit of room to play with our options and scale accordingly.
Our first thing to do was decide on a plot of land. Where that was, had been decided upon, due to El's friend living in the area with nothing but good things to say the local estate.
We looked at a few within our estate and found a corner block we really really liked.
We put our deposit down and had the land settled in March (2015)
Next the builders; for roughly two months whilst we still had our hearts set on plantation, we continued to look at all the builders display homes for ideas, layouts and getting the size of things. No exaggeration - we walked through ALL plantation homes in Queensland. and it was well worth it each has differing schemes of colours, lighting, applications, feel, etc. Doing that gave us an idea of what we wanted our home to feel and look like.
By the end of mid March we had decided on a design and placed our deposit.
The Sienna Vogue q1 with a bit of a modified design
We modified it to have what is beyond the garage on the right hand side of the above picture, mirrored - usually the alfresco is behind the garage however that would put it in the shade, and ensuring it stayed on the north side was a must. Swapping the garage was not a choice either due to the geography of the lot.
And an illustration of the facade look.
Onto the colour selections!!
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