Our New Nest!

We have moved to our new place! It's been a good 3 months since we moved and we are loving our new nest!

The whole process of building from scratch was rather stressful but totally worth it! We picked every details as per what we want and we are pleased on how it turned out. The whole journey took a solid 12 months with covid and lockdown in between. It is not a flash house but it's beautiful and it's located in one of the loveliest neighborhood.

Tapi asli, ga pernah ngebangun sendiri..riwehnya yaowoh. Dan disini ngebangun rumah kok ya mahal bener rasanya..rumah sepetak kecil gini, kok bayarnya segitu. Ngebayangin kalo di Indo, kalo bayarannya segini..bisa dapet rumah sebagus apa coba. 

Tapi yaudalah ya, soto ayam aja $16 disini..apalagi nyambung aer ke rumah. >.<'

One thing yang kita berasa banget, the whole journey kita ngebangun ini..semua jalan dibukain. Semua urusan dilancarin, dan kita selalu berdoa biar rumah ini selalu jadi rumah penuh berkat dan kita selalu blessed to be a blessing.

It was started just like this. Plain section and we had no idea on the ideal house we want. Lol. I always wanted ultra modern house, but i do like classic too. I like those wood exterior but i do like black and white too. I was just very confused, and times that confusion by 2 - because Arief has his own 'ideal' home too. 

Kayak maen The sims tapi real life with real money - kalo salah ga bisa di undo dan ga di save kayak sims. LOL.

This is my bedroom.

We built with Maddren Homes. One of the award winning builder company. 

But honestly, being award winning something doesn't impressed me much on the company. No, I lied -  It does give me assurance that at least the house won't look like shit.  Admit it, there are ugly design houses. 

What impressed me the most about Maddren are the people! We first dealt with Nita Wong, this lovely lady from Maddren Homes is da bomb! As a first timer in building, we had no clue on the process and all. She is with us from day 1 and am so grateful for her. Then, when we started dealing with Maddren's team, I realized they are so deserved to be award winning company, apart from their craftmanship - they definitely a Gold award winner for the most positive bunch!

Like in any business, there are issues!

In doing building, there are plenty of issues, miscommunication and something get missed out along the building journey. With Maddren, they will find solutions and fix it when they can, if they can't - they told us and we have to compromised. It's sucks in some moments, but i guess mistakes happened and no one dies, so.. move on! 

Just a disclaimer, am not sponsored by Maddren Homes to post this. I just want to start jotting down our life in New Zealand again and this feels like a fresh starts. 

Slowly the house started coming together nicely. It's so hard to imagine the plan on the paper, luckily Maddren has 3D AR Apps thing that able to visualize our house. This is pretty cool! 

Bokap nanya..itu rumah cuman dari kayu bisa terbang ga kalo angin kenceng? lol.

We felt there's a lot of things to think about, even the colour of switch or which way our spotlights gonna look like. It felt overwhelming yet exciting in the same time.

They have their individual vendors to take care of our roof, paint, kitchen, doors and windows, landscape, etc. There are few vendors that stands out ans easy to deal with, and there are some that i wish to just not deal again in the future. Overall its a sweet journey in the end. Thank you Maddren.

Thank you for those that reading my blog, following me on Instagram and commented on how beautiful this house is. We like this house, although not the most beautiful on the street - it is surely the best looking house we ever have and we are grateful for it.

I still owe you the house tour. :)

We are still waiting for some furniture and few works around the house. Will definitely gonna do house tour in my IG, if you haven't - follow me on @eldiona :)

See u in Instagram.