MikiZ: Beginnings!

[mikiz]

So it's been a long wait for me to be able to add this to the forum, and almost didn't happen at all when the bank turned me down the first time.
I live away so I won't be able to update a lot until I go down next but this is the beginning of Zwinter Acres!
It's 40 acres just outside of a small town in Western Australia, no house yet and the fences are a bit rough, but it has permanent drinkable underground water, nice amount of trees spread out over the block and power running through one side that I can connect to when I do save enough to build a house!
The neighbour is currently renting it and will fertilize and seed it so he can cut some hay for his cattle.

I only have some photos the real estate took, because I was so excited to go and see it that I completely forgot to take my own. These are late winter/early spring photos, it was much more dry and yellow when I went to look, but it's like this for 80% of the year so I can live with that.

This is facing the flat part where the house will be:

And this is looking up from the back end of the paddock up to the road, the top of that hill is where the photo above was taken:

Across the dam:

This is from the top of the block near the road facing down the hill:

And some other shots:

Plan is to divide it up into smaller paddocks, so far there will be a large hay paddock at the top end and the flattest part along the roadside for the homestead:

Now to hope I can save enough in the next year or so to start changing out the boundary fencing, do the internal fences and build a house!

 

[norseofcourse]

How exciting, congrats!

 

[Mike CHS]

I'm excited for you and that is a pretty piece of property.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Gorgeous!

 

[samssimonsays]

Congrats!!! WHat a beautiful property! SO excited and happy for you!

 

[Southern by choice]

drooling here!
Congratulations! That is just wonderful!

 

[Latestarter]

Very nice! Really nice that you have water available on the property! Hope you'll keep us up to date with you going forward!

 

[BlessedWithGoats]

Aww! Congratulations!! Beautiful piece of property!

 

[mikiz]

Well this update has been an even longer time coming since buying the property. I've persevered in my plan, a few relationships have come and gone in between, but I'm finally almost finished building my house!
As I went with a modular construction, this is the house in the builder's yard, and some not-quite-finished inside photos, it's a 3 bedroom house plus granny flat for mum, will all be joined by a verandah the whole way around.
Handover is next month and mum and I are moving before the end of the year!

 

[mikiz]

Well after a small setback with trucks getting bogged and needing assistance to get everything into place, the house is on the block.
The week leading up to the move saw sunny skies and dry weather, and everything was a go, until the 24 hrs beforehand they had a downpour and received 100mm of rain! Ground was boggy and they had some problems with the pad but the builders should have completed the verandahs last week.
Having some communication issues with the electrician and plumber, so the power may not be connected until next month (the pole is being replaced and a new transformer set up mid-May) and the backfill around the house can't be done until the power and plumbing is run from the house. This means the concreting for the verandah won't be done until the backfill is done.
Not sure what's going to happen yet but they have until Tuesday to decide whether they want the job before we find another company to do it.
I still haven't been down to see it in person as we were meant to go last week, that got moved to early May and now it's been shifted to the end of May. We're hoping to have it all done so I can get the keys when we do the walkthrough.

We still need to install fireplaces, window dressings, pantry and linen cupboard shelving and buy or find furniture. I can't wait to start looking in the second-hand shops to find some unique and homely pieces to decorate.

It looks tiny in compared to the land and trees around it, but I'm hoping once the verandahs are up it'll look more liveable. The gap between the houses is 2 meters, but it looks like barely a passageway in photos!

Next job is a shed and fencing, the current external fencing is new in some places and old in others, and all of it is barbed wire, which won't work for my horses so most of it will have to go.