And even more selections!!

As if the first two days of selections weren't enough, we now find ourselves staring down Prestart. Today we met with our lovely contact administrator from Stannard, Lee, to go over pretty much everything all over again. The changes and decisions we make today form part of our contact variations.

Every detail is reviewed with a fine tooth comb, starting with the structural side of things right through to the robe hook in the guest bathroom. Like anything, spend enough time looking at it and you'll find something to change. While our house plan was fundamentally resolved going into the meeting, we still found things to change on the day. Small things, shorten one room by x, move a wall back, add y to another room, change a window size/location, move a door, add in a pipe for the reticulation, change sliding door for stacking door, etc. 

Once the structure itself was resolved, then cabinetry for the kitchen, laundry, bathroom, ensuites. Confirming colours from previous selections, drawers or doors, drawer depths, drawer widths, handle type, where do we want, appliances, how big are appliances, where are we putting bins, how many bins, do we want to stack laundry appliances, do we want laundry hamper, etc. Then tiling selection confirmation from previous selections, how high to tile, how much mirror vs tile back splash. Then accessories like robe hooks, towel rails, shower niches, tap locations, tap type, tap colour, do we want shaving cabinets, which bath, which toilet etc

Finally more colour selections, house colour (inside/outside/feature), door colour, door style, door heights, door finish, garage door colour and style, roof colour, gutter colour and type, paving or aggregate, pool provisioning requirements, soakwell locations, front elevation highlights, etc. We did receive a colour render of how it could look, so we did take some reference from that (see pic).

This meeting went for 5.5 solid hours with barely a break. It certainly went longer than expected and I even had to pop out and take a work Teams call toward the end as I'd foolishly booked one for 2pm thinking we'd be finished by then after a 9am start. Throughout it all Lee calmly went through it all with us, fielded every question we asked and guided through the whole process. We even had Peter Stannard himself drop in and say hi. 

Now we wait for the costing for all these changes to come in, revisit my (completely blown) budget and perhaps had some more into or mortgage request. I've got the medics on speed dial...