One part of our block that we were not sure what to do with was the back bit as there is quite a drop to the house behind.
It started to look a bit more manageable after the earthworks and a retaining wall was put in.
The weeds soon got a bit intense and we were sick of jumping up and down so over Christmas I got Dad to help me put in some stairs.
One thing I did want to do properly that isn’t part of the standard inclusions is running Ethernet cable to most of the rooms. Since it’s two storey I also wanted to run proper WiFi access points and put in cables for our PoE cameras that we’ll bring from the old house. I used this guide as a starting point to get an idea of how best to do it. I used the Ubiquity Design Center to work out Wifi AP placement.
After putting the slab down, getting the frame up all happened pretty quickly. There was a few delays from rain but the roof and windows and everything were on by the end of March.
Due to the scaffolding and bright weather proofing, it’s actually suprisingly easy to spot the house from various places around the area. We worked out you can even see it from out the back of our current house (with binoculars).
Before Christmas they started doing the earthworks and retaining wall at the back of the block.
We also had to pick all our selections before Christmas. It wasn’t actually too bad as the interior designer had a showroom with most of the selections to choose from. And then we had to go to a couple of other stores like Tradelink for a few other selections but overall much simpler then I expected.
Rachael had found an open house to inspect when Lyra was only 12 days old, after deciding our current house was too small now we had a baby. We couldn’t find any existing houses on the market that were what we wanted, so we bought a block of land that came up at the end of last year, and we’ve spent most of this year finalising a design.
Of the builders we visited, we couldn’t find a house plan that was exactly what we wanted either, so we’d have to come up with our own.
