#224: Visit a display home
Today CJ and I drove to Murrumbateman to visit a display home and see how drool-resistant modern floors really are.*
The kitchen was sooo dreamy.
You’ll notice it has the same floating-bench-with-sink-and-dishwasher that I put in my fantasy house plan the other day.
CJ had a manly swoon at the rising power point (also on the floating bench) – and of course the fact it was designed to be North-facing. It also had bathrooms with separate toilets, which I adore. I also adore the fake stone stuff out the front and under the bench.
The clock in the above picture may look familiar. That’s because CJ and I were given one** when we married.
We did actually learn some interesting stuff between the druglord fantasies. This particular company – Regal homes – can adjust almost anything in the home design to your preferences (including moving walls, chopping bits off, etc). Their cheapest homes cost about $250,000 to build (which at least gives us an idea – that’s for 3 bedrooms and a study, which is more than we’d need anyway). It costs $15,000 to knock down an old home – which is so much less than I thought that it opens up some interesting possibilities.
We’ll just see.
In the meantime, here’s a lady who might have got on with Anne Bonny (my favourite part is when she fakes her lover’s death by digging up a corpse and then burning down the nunnery where they were both, clearly, naughty nuns).
http://www.eldacur.com/~brons/Maupin/LaMaupin.html
*quite
**after some not-so-subtle hintage from yours truly
Felicity Banks 
Ann said,
November 13, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Ahhh – its cheap to knock down yes, but the land prices in the Canberra region will kill you too…… You might try Captains Flat or Yass……
twittertales said,
November 13, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Well. . . not that cheap. But there’s no wy we’re buying anything outside of canberra. Not even a shrubbery.
Ben (Crispin) said,
November 14, 2010 at 12:58 am
I especially liked that she met her life-long (male) lover by defeating him and his two friends in a swordfight (while disguised as a man to avoid a sentence of death-by-fire) – then, having literally run him right through, she nursed him back to health and the love bloomed.
Ah… Classic Romance…
twittertales said,
November 14, 2010 at 8:18 am
Ben: Now I know what you find attractive in a young lady.
Ben (Crispin) said,
November 15, 2010 at 10:36 am
Don’t tell the Spambots…
twittertales said,
November 15, 2010 at 11:06 am
Ben: We signed up to receive their advertising, so spam is a given. Educational spam, though, especially if we collect data on other companies too.
W said,
November 14, 2010 at 8:34 am
It really sounds very Black Bob…
twittertales said,
November 14, 2010 at 6:43 pm
W: But Black Bob is dead. . . . OR IS SHE?