We Have LIFT-OFF!!

Yes! Latitude Homes have come through for us and presented us with our Working Drawings! (Apparently the 3 month delay was due to the engineering, blah blah).

Anyway, Latitude are going to apply for our building consent on our behalf as they know all the short-cuts.

So in the meantime we are looking for suppliers for our tiles, carpet and kitchen cabinets, and have managed to get a few quotes.

We went to the Tile Depot and a really nice man worked out how many square metres of tiles we would need for each area. However, we may go with the Bath & Tile store on Cavendish Drive in Manukau because they sell porcelain tiles (which are very strong) and they have the best deal going at the moment - $45 for 600x600 premium tiles per square metre.

We also went to the Kitchen House in Mt Wellington to give them the specs of our kitchen, and they drew up a nice kitchen plan with a quote of $16323.38. This includes a granite benchtop, but not the applicances.

I rung TradeExperts.co.nz to ask them about Kitchen Designers, and they told me that they would get 3 Kitchen Designers to contact me for further quotes. So far Elite Kitchens in Mt Wellington and Todays Kitchens in Manukau have already phoned me and asked me to email through my specs and plan so that they can give me a price.

Hopefully they send through their quotes this week. SO Exciting!