Cosham Information Session & new photos from the block!

Today we attended Plantation's Cosham Studios information session at 10am. We were 1 of about 5 couples and it went for just on an hour. Although we have already spent a fair bit of time at Cosham Studios looking at all the different colours, fittings, tapware etc, we both still got some good advice and tips from it the session.

In a nutshell, one of the Plantation staff took us around the studio and explained what has included in our price and what was an upgrade. It is a relatively simple system as everything has labels on it so you can easily identify the basic and upgrade items and for some things, it is a no-brainer to upgrade (like $20 for a double towel rail instead of a single).

Due to the nature of some of the items (eg. bricks, skirting, flooring etc) it is impossible to get a price from them immediately as they will send it up to their estimating team and get back to you in around 7 days but if the price is too high, you can simply change back to one of the standard inclusions.

Needless to say we will probably upgrade quite a few items (like the kitchen sink and benches) to get a price, but we have already chosen our 'backups' should it be too pricey.

After our information session, we spent another hour or two going through some of the colours in a lot more detail and then headed to Beaumont Tiles to get a better idea of the range available to us. Given our Colour Appointment is on Monday afternoon, we need to get all the information together now so we can knock it all of in one sitting!

We also went for a drive out to the block to see the progress. Things seem to be moving along extremely quickly all of a sudden, with nearly all the soil gone from our block and the roads starting to be constructed (which means all the storm water has gone in since last weekend)! There are a couple of photos below of our block and one looking down our street where most of the action is happening at the moment as it is the stage before ours.

If things keep moving along at this rate, we should be able to get our soil test done very shortly and provided she weather continues to stay dry, we are looking at registration around late June (which will be good timing as we get back from overseas on 24 June!!!)

Monday is the next big milestone for us - contract signing in the morning, and colour selections in the afternoon - it will surely be a looooooooong day!! We will put up all our colour selections early next week.

Panorama from the front right of our block - not much dirt left there now!!

Looking down the "road" from our block

Panorama from the rear left of our block - the green silt fence is where the dirt mound used to come to!!