How much?

Got an email through today from the architect summarising the costs that we received from the 2 builders. The good news was that both quotes were within 20K of each other, which gives some confidence that both estimates are reasonably reliable. The bad news was that they are quite a bit over our budget. Surprise!

We will need to shave quite a bit off to get them back into the realm of sensibility. In order to start that process we really need to get down into the detail of the design. This is a process we've been anxious to start for awhile now so it will be great to finally start to the see the interior take shape.

One things for certain, the pool is looking like it could hit the cutting room floor. We haven't fully made that decision yet but we will need to soon.

Below are some pictures we took the other day of the interior of the house. Our friends are living there at the moment so it's been interesting to see it with furniture rather than empty.