My wife and I had built back in 2002 with Hallmark Homes in an estate not far from Ferny Grove. We liked, nay, loved our home. Although we had a couple of kids as is prone to happening and as they grew so did both their voice boxes and their sense of entitlement. And they're not even 7 yet! Basically, the design of the house was lacking a few things, plus it back onto a road that was virtually untrafficked, but was getting busier every day.
I had a friend nearby who had bought in a new estate half a kilometre from where we were, and it got us thinking that we could up and move (for what we would like to consider our last move for 20-ish years) and not extend ourselves too much. More on that at a later time though...
We missed the boat on the first stage of the estate we had our eyes on and the second stage was taking forever and was probably out of our price range, we started looking elsewhere. We stumbled on a block that was an acreage block that have had a few blocks subbed off the front. We made an offer and now own a chunk of land.
As you can see it's flattish, with a bit of a rise at the front. It's a smidge over 600 square metres. The tress you can see are on the remnants of the acreage block which now sits behind on a battle-axe configuration thingy.
All this time while looking for land we had looking at house designs. We had a wishlist that we wanted to get, otherwise there really wasn't a great incentive to move. These were:
- Separate area for the kids
- Big pantry
- Better Kitchen layout
- Separate TV room
- Kids room not directly opposite each other
In the end we plumped for Plantation Homes' (also known as Henley) Retreat 18m Q2. The only changes we made to the design was to make the walk-in pantry larger.
Well, that might do for a first post.
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