Baby steps...

Sometimes I wish that we lived close enough to the block to be able to spontaneously pop past everyday to check on progress. As it stands, we need to make time on the weekends to make the trek to Kilmore and back - which makes it all the more disappointing when we don't see any major changes :(

We expected to arrive at the block yesterday to find drainage completed and possibly the start of the stumping...but, NOTHING. I think we are going to be making a few phone calls on Monday to find out what the hold up is.

That being said, we have made some small baby steps since the arrival of our bin and toilet back in mid-Jan - we now have a temporary fence, set-out completed, and a tap.

All fenced in!

Set out pegs - this is looking out from the back sliding doors over the future deck

Temporary tap connection

The other positive point from this weekend's travels is that we finally got to walk through a finished Keogh house. I was flipping through the real estate guide last week when I noticed a house for sale that was "custom built by Keogh Homes". Given that we haven't actually seen any of Keogh's products in person before, we were very excited to go and check it out. That is one of the downsides of building a custom home I suppose, that they don't have 20 different display homes that you can walk through and check out in person.

Must say, it was very impressive! I think Frank the designer did a really good job at making the most of an odd-shaped piece of land, and everything was finished to a very high quality. Although the actual plan was quite different to ours, most of the rooms were a similar size so it was good to get a sense of what we are going to end up with...  and if our house ends up even half as good as this one, I will be very happy.

Kitchen - very similar style to what we want (probably won't be going with the green walls though!)