Snail's Pace
We are moving along slowly with our house plans, although we have to go back to the drawing board as we can't build where we wanted to build on our block. This weekend there will be an alternative energy show at Bellingen (a slightly hippy dippy town about 25 miles away, south and inland a bit), and as our architect and his family were planning to go too we're hopefully going to visit the show and then go and have lunch with them somewhere local.
I suspect that we will have to build upwards on a much smaller building 'footprint', but we'll have to wait and see what Christian says when Michael takes him to look at the options on Wednesday morning.
Meanwhile we're eyeing up reclamation yards for likely recycled flooring etc. It turns out that my student's family run a large yard in Coffs Harbour and we want to take a look there. It could potentially save quite a lot of money, for example, if we bought good quality second-hand kitchen units for the guest area and put on new handles and a new worktop... that's the sort of thing we're looking at, together with recycled floor boards. It's probably a bit early to start buying things (not least because we have absolutely nowhere to store anything else), but it doesn't hurt to look!
What we did do last week was to register our details with rental agencies in the hope of finding a better place to live. We don't hate where we're living - the ocean views are wonderful - but we're being over-charged given the lack of useable garden space and the fact that our landlady has some of her stuff in our garage. Plus, of course, we're paying extra for me to have a separate studio as there is nowhere for me to work at home. If we could find somewhere large enough for me to work too, then we'd be saving a lot of money each month. Our lease will be up at Christmas anyway, and we've decided to look early, instead of having a last minute rush at peak holiday season, in the hope that we'll be able to take our time and find somewhere nice. We might be living in it for two years before our own house might be finished!
I suspect that we will have to build upwards on a much smaller building 'footprint', but we'll have to wait and see what Christian says when Michael takes him to look at the options on Wednesday morning.
Meanwhile we're eyeing up reclamation yards for likely recycled flooring etc. It turns out that my student's family run a large yard in Coffs Harbour and we want to take a look there. It could potentially save quite a lot of money, for example, if we bought good quality second-hand kitchen units for the guest area and put on new handles and a new worktop... that's the sort of thing we're looking at, together with recycled floor boards. It's probably a bit early to start buying things (not least because we have absolutely nowhere to store anything else), but it doesn't hurt to look!
What we did do last week was to register our details with rental agencies in the hope of finding a better place to live. We don't hate where we're living - the ocean views are wonderful - but we're being over-charged given the lack of useable garden space and the fact that our landlady has some of her stuff in our garage. Plus, of course, we're paying extra for me to have a separate studio as there is nowhere for me to work at home. If we could find somewhere large enough for me to work too, then we'd be saving a lot of money each month. Our lease will be up at Christmas anyway, and we've decided to look early, instead of having a last minute rush at peak holiday season, in the hope that we'll be able to take our time and find somewhere nice. We might be living in it for two years before our own house might be finished!
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