Update to Blocks and Banks

Ok so..FINALLY we recieved the paper work for the settlement of both the land and Webb street.

I have to say I have never been so confused in all my life! These conveyancing folk really dont make things easy to understand for the regular laymen people like me! Derek was as confused as I was.. so then I asked Dad and even he was confused by it! It just wouldnt add up for us. In the end we managed to work out how they had come to the figures layed out in front of us, albeit, in the most ambiguous form! As it turns out, its all correct..Sweet!

Next part of the action is to call the broker and ask for the money for the house. Joy! Thats Derek's job though, because our broker is a Scotsman and I cant for the life of me work out a word he says over the phone, except for the end of the conversation where he says "keep your chin up", that's about all I can get out of 10 minutes on the phone with him (in person I lip read).

So I leave that to Derek seeing as they are both from that side of the world and the accents are similar..well sort of!

Sidetracking to more interesting events...

We popped into Bunnings (huge hardware warehouse for those that are unfamiliar) last night..Yay! Love Bunnings! No sausage sizzle on, booooo! Although it wasnt really the night for it, absolutely pouring rain and pitch black! On the upside of the downside of no sausages, there was no body there and loads of staff to help! Thumbs up to Bunnings visits mid week in the evening!

However, I digress...

So a trip to Bunnings to check out splash back colours for the kitchen in the Dulux paints range. There was much discussion around this. It seems to be one thing we are having some trouble, lets say, "coming to a conclusion" on!

My idea is to keep the kitchen area to basic colours, whites, creams, beiges etc, so that we wont get too sick of them over time and so we can add in other colour, like furniture and decor. Del agrees, but he would really love to go with something bright and stand out like fire engine red or a bright blue. Its quite a tough decision. I too, do love the bright colour effect, but I feel that we would get sick of it and wont be able to change that easily without replacing the whole splash back. So eventually, (after about an hour in the paint section of Bunnings) we have come to a "semi" agreement of a metallic colour that's basic, but gives off a sparkle just to make it that bit more exciting than a flat matt colour. I think the colour we may go for is called "Pewter Illusion". He will tell you that he has just agreed with me to keep me quiet, but I think he secretly likes my idea.

This weekend is going to be spent looking at kitchen places and splash back designs so we can make a very informed decision. I say "yay" he says "urgh"! Then we have some pals coming over for dinner on Sunday, at which, the girls and I will (most likely) scrutinise colour options and discuss all things housey and the boys will talk about football and supercoach.

Until next post...at which I may just have some pics for you...ooohhh aaaahhh

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