Dreaming...My Dream home in the Making!

For 13 long months we made plans - meeting after meeting with the designer and architect, conversation after conversation between Dave and I, always looking for ideas and inspiration on the internet, in real estate guides, in the local newspapers. I dreamed of my dream home's layout and structure. Then in May, we had it! We were happy! Off to council, we went. An hour and half later we left, disappointed, we had been unable to lodge. Our local council had brought in new guidelines with regards to water retention - a whole 10,000 litres of it. So back to the drawing board, we engaged an engineer and then 3 weeks later our DA was finally lodged into council. It was advertised on their website, council received a submission (read objection) from a neighbour BUT it is now out of our hands - I thought I would be stressed about it, we have a tricky block in that it is sloping so with the amount of excavation we need to do we have really pushed the limits within some of the guidleines! I really do just feel what will be, will be and we can worry about it if and when we need to.

In the mean time, I have been playing with ideas for all the pretty things.

This has been taking up some time and I am really enjoying it. I can really picture my home, my dream home and I can't wait for it to come to fruition!