In the beginning.....

Once upon a time an average Adelaide couple decided that their current house was just a bit too small and just a bit too.... suburban and started to look for an alternative.

Yes folks - that's us - me being an IT Support Officer henceforth known as 'M' and he a Volunteer Transport Coordinator henceforth known as 'C'.

We had decided that if we were going to move house we wanted a bit more space than our current courtyard home in South Western Adelaide and we wanted a less suburban outlook. We househunted existing homes for a while and came to the conclusion that we weren't going to find what we wanted and decided to look for land to build.

First of all there was a block at Highbury that we had our eye on and we even got permission from the Realtor to do a soil test. We were disappointed that he did not inform us when the property was sold (we'd actually had the test done after he'd sold the property to someone else unbeknown to us!)

That was lesson one! ($900 ish down the drain.... cha ching!)

Next we found a block of land in Teringie. It was a little over 2,000 square metres and a lovely bush block but VERY steeply sloped. Our common sense (and everyone else we mentioned it to) said 'run away, run away, it's too difficult' but romantic souls that we are we decided to take a chance and make an offer and so began the adventure of Teringatu.