now who are we going to build with...?!?

Well so now we come to the decision of... who the hell do we trust to build our home???

So now i have the behemoth task of touring all the many building company display homes. We had a couple of non-negotiables:

1. Master bedroom at the back of the house - or at the very least not at the front
2. Gas appliances
3. the ability to put bidet's into the ensuite and/or main bathroom
4. minimum of 4 bedrooms
5. 2 car garage

So began the long process. Side note... do you guys know how many house styles have bedrooms at the back?? It is actually not as many as you would think. I could not believe how many builders will have only 1 or in some cases no plans where the master is not at the very front of the house.

So after many many many weeks of labouriously inspecting different builders display homes both here on the Central Coast and up at Newcastle i had narrowed the field down to 5 plans with 5 different builders. I feel a bit guilty as im sure i filled a tree's worth of plans and books for homebuilders into the recycling bin :-s

1. Beechwood - Bordeaux 5 (although we were originally looking at the Bordeaux 4 with a few more modifications)

2. Mojo Homes - Rumba 24 with ALOT of modifications. We added an extra room and moved things around. Flipped the Media and Master bedrooms.

3. Sekisui - Viola

4. Allworth Homes - Newbury 4 bed Media & Alfresco

5. Coral Homes - Noosa 25

So there you have it... the short list of potentials... What do you guys think??