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Part 2
 So my home plans are still bubbling along. It's all a bit confusing but the guys (and girls) at Adenbrook are being super helpful and leading me through contracts and colour charts and other important decisions such as the colour of the front door. Colours are curly. Stained natural wood for the entrance door or super sleek and modern grey? Well of course it's not called grey - colours are like that aren't they? They are always given far more exotic names that seem compulsory such as Slate, Marble, Crushed Concrete, Charcoal and my personal favourite, Arsenic!
However contracts have been signed and I am still making some final decisions on important things such as just how many power points does one person and their two dogs need in a four bedroom home! Being a Libran decision making is a painful process!
I have never in my life coveted something for a kitchen. This is the girl afterall who owns one saucepan! Truly! When the last serious ex boyfriend moved out he took with him his set of Baccarat beauties and I continued to live in bliss eating take away and fish fingers. My big sister intervened one weekend and brought over one single sad little saucepan as she was convinced I would die if I didn't eat some form of vegetables some time soon that wasn't courtesy of Red Rooster! How the tide has turned. Now I lie awake at night dreaming of a gleaming white splashback in snow white kitchen that will somehow transform me into Nigella Lawson! Nigella surrounded by a blanket of artic snow! The snag is the splashback costs three thousand dollars more than kitchen tiles. But can you really put a price on beauty? Beauty is pain and clearly that means a form of some financial pain! I mean the tiles look so daggy compared to the gleaming glittery glamour of the glass. I am justifying the splashback in my mind by telling myself I saved a lot of money eating fish fingers during the past twelve months so I can rightfully splurge in my new home!
So the week has been spent trying to decide what 'extras' one needs in a house!
It's time to be an adult and commit to something. It's the biggest laybye I have ever taken upon myself and I can't simply return this to Target if it doesn't fit!
Yes despite years of living without having to pay rates I have finally decided to bite the bullet and buy a piece of dirt to call my very own. I am living the Great Aussie Dream even though it seems at the moment many experts are saying nightmare times are ahead of us all. I figure as long as I have a job I can
Finally I will be able to nail as many screws into the walls as I so wish! That is my idea of heaven and a big motivator for wanting to buy my own house. I have collected art for decades and am sick of stacking painting after painting under the stairs because I am not game to whack holes into rental property walls. It's funny what motivates us all to buy.
So here goes my blog on building a house that will hopefully become a home for myself and my two dogs Louis and Hugo.
So I have a block at Stockwater's Brightwater - it's small but close to a park and a nice flat little slice of paradise.
Now the fun of picking the colours and layout of the pad begins!
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It's time to be an adult and commit to something. It's the biggest layby I have ever taken upon myself and I can't simply return this to Target if it doesn't fit!