When you buy off plan, there is something very satisfying about actually seeing YOUR property. To stand there and look at the bricks & mortar that make up where you are going to live is incredible. To see that they have actually built the property you were expecting, balconies in the right place, doors and windows in the right place – it does help you sleep at night. Ours is on the left of the photo, with the balcony on the the front. We were also going to have a chance to visit the show home, a 3 bed-semi similar to ours, although a few differences, mainly the lack of balcony from the main bedroom and a smaller roof terrace.
Driving into San Juan again felt very good, and we were both surprised how much building had gone on since we were there last November. It looks as if they have just about finished building all the houses, obviously a lot of work to do as far as finishing them off, but it does give a good idea of the size of the development. The show house is still classed as being on a building site and so we had to wear very attractive hard hats between the road and being inside the door – all of about 10 yards, by the time you have sorted out which hat fits who, you’re in.
And it’s good.
You go into the show home via the back, so you are first into the kitchen, which is a galley style but quite long and tiled everywhere. It has lovely granite work surfaces and is nice and light because of the back door and the interior door both being glass. There are grills to all the lower windows and the back door which is re-assuring.
From the kitchen you can walk through to the small hallway that leads to the 3rd bedroom, which we will use as a dining room, the downstairs shower room, which is huge, fully tiled and the only thing I found odd was the coloured panel on the wash basin cabinet – orange!
Past the granite staircase with wrought iron rails and you are into the lounge area, which I found, much to my delight, is quite a bit bigger than I had imagined. Immediately, I loved this room and could see our 2 big leather comfy settees would fit. Neil quickly identified the place on the wall for the TV, and we would have plenty of room for the dogs to run around, as the do. So far, I love this house!
Upstairs, there are 2 bedrooms, the main one has full length doors leading onto a balcony and the other bedroom has access to a balcony at the back from the staircase. Both balconies are large enough for a table and chairs for an early morning cuppa or a late evening night cap under a starry Spanish sky – how wonderful.
A further staircase leads upto the roof terrace, with all round views from the mountains to the sea across the roof tops – I cannot wait to get the sun loungers out – and the giant chess set.
We weren’t allowed out the front of the house as that led on to the building site but we could see enough of the outside to know it’s going to look good. We were told when we reserved the property that they couldn’t be sure what colour each of the houses were going to be, but I secretly have a preference for either of the blues and my least favourite is the pink, but in a conversation with the site office, we have been told ours will be either of the 2 blues – oh, I do hope so.
Driving into San Juan again felt very good, and we were both surprised how much building had gone on since we were there last November. It looks as if they have just about finished building all the houses, obviously a lot of work to do as far as finishing them off, but it does give a good idea of the size of the development. The show house is still classed as being on a building site and so we had to wear very attractive hard hats between the road and being inside the door – all of about 10 yards, by the time you have sorted out which hat fits who, you’re in.
And it’s good.
You go into the show home via the back, so you are first into the kitchen, which is a galley style but quite long and tiled everywhere. It has lovely granite work surfaces and is nice and light because of the back door and the interior door both being glass. There are grills to all the lower windows and the back door which is re-assuring.
From the kitchen you can walk through to the small hallway that leads to the 3rd bedroom, which we will use as a dining room, the downstairs shower room, which is huge, fully tiled and the only thing I found odd was the coloured panel on the wash basin cabinet – orange!
Past the granite staircase with wrought iron rails and you are into the lounge area, which I found, much to my delight, is quite a bit bigger than I had imagined. Immediately, I loved this room and could see our 2 big leather comfy settees would fit. Neil quickly identified the place on the wall for the TV, and we would have plenty of room for the dogs to run around, as the do. So far, I love this house!
Upstairs, there are 2 bedrooms, the main one has full length doors leading onto a balcony and the other bedroom has access to a balcony at the back from the staircase. Both balconies are large enough for a table and chairs for an early morning cuppa or a late evening night cap under a starry Spanish sky – how wonderful.
A further staircase leads upto the roof terrace, with all round views from the mountains to the sea across the roof tops – I cannot wait to get the sun loungers out – and the giant chess set.
We weren’t allowed out the front of the house as that led on to the building site but we could see enough of the outside to know it’s going to look good. We were told when we reserved the property that they couldn’t be sure what colour each of the houses were going to be, but I secretly have a preference for either of the blues and my least favourite is the pink, but in a conversation with the site office, we have been told ours will be either of the 2 blues – oh, I do hope so.
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