Paperwork, paperwork, paperwork, and plans!

After months of research it's exciting to see things fall in to place, but finding time to read all of the associated paperwork has left us with severe brain drain. The mortgage documents for the land are signed and witnessed and on their way back to the bank (not without a couple of boo boos from the 300+ year old Justice of the Peace who kindly volunteered to help us!). Awkward! 

Andy and I have been fortunate to discover that we have very similar tastes in house layouts, decor and furniture. So the process of working out which house to build has been fairly straightforward. 

We are looking to build something like this plan below, although we would be flipping it so that the garage is on the right and the walls with the least windows are on the Western side to minimise the hot afternoon sun getting in.

We have an appointment with the builder for next Tuesday to fine tune our wish list and work out if it fits our budget. Yikes!

It's great to be able to progress this aspect of our plans whilst the land is waiting to settle. Hopefully by the time the land settles we will be all sorted and ready to submit the plans to council for approval.

I'm being my usual stress-head and worrying about things that may not happen, whilst Andy is online browsing all of the lovely furniture and fittings we would like. I need to take a leaf out of his book and chill a bit!

With that in mind, I got up early this morning and went for an hour long walk. Hopefully that calms my frazzled brain and helps me to sleep a bit better!