define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":1546,"date":"2009-07-26T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T05:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2009-07-26T15:11:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T05:11:02","slug":"metricon-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/1546\/","title":{"rendered":"metricon homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;are you STILL looking at that house?&#8221; says my husband. and with that, i realise that yes, i&#8217;m obsessed!<\/p>\n<p>after taking Jasper out to the playground this morning, we took a detour and visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metricon.com.au\/nsw\/displaycentres\/kellyville-ridge\/default.aspx\">new show homes of <strong>Metricon<\/strong><\/a>. we drive past it often but never had the chance to go in and have a look, i would just pull over and stare. yes, i told you i was obsessed \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>anyway, Jasper and I got out and walked through a few of them (didn&#8217;t want to drag JJ around too much) and wow! all of them are beautifully presented, amazing interiors and lovely big, open spaces. my favourite was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metricon.com.au\/nsw\/homes\/laguna\/default.aspx\"><strong>The Laguna<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/&#038;photos\/metricon_laguna_1.jpg\" alt=\"Metricon - The Laguna\" \/><br \/>\nsee? beautiful! <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/&#038;photos\/metricon_laguna_2.jpg\" alt=\"Metricon - The Laguna\" \/><br \/>\nthe kitchen has so much bench top i wouldn&#8217;t know what to do with myself (but would be happy to figure it out for the rest of my life!), and a generous sized pantry. enough room for a double door fridge and the oven is higher off the ground. i love that the splashback is a window instead! <\/p>\n<p>a big feature of The Laguna, for me, was the Outdoor Rooms not only downstairs, but upstairs too!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/&#038;photos\/metricon_laguna_3.jpg\" alt=\"Metricon - The Laguna\" \/><br \/>\nthe master bedroom has it&#8217;s very own outdoor room&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/&#038;photos\/metricon_laguna_5.jpg\" alt=\"Metricon - The Laguna\" \/><br \/>\nthe downstairs Outdoor Room features a fireplace, such a great place to hang out in the evening \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/&#038;photos\/metricon_laguna_4.jpg\" alt=\"Metricon - The Laguna\" \/><br \/>\nthere&#8217;s another fireplace in the sitting room, i would turn this into a reading room\/library and spend many hours here reading to the kids and helping them do their homework<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/&#038;photos\/metricon_laguna_7.jpg\" alt=\"Metricon - The Laguna\" \/><br \/>\ni love that there is a seperate space for an office, something that i don&#8217;t really have now (but get by anyway!) i dream about my own office\/studio &#8211; i&#8217;d have to put a door on it though<\/p>\n<p>and last but not least, the master bedroom&#8217;s ensuite is HUGE and features an amazing bath, big shower, double basins and i think the partition\/wall between the bathroom and bedroom is very cool<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/&#038;photos\/metricon_laguna_6.jpg\" alt=\"Metricon - The Laguna\" \/><\/p>\n<p>if we were to build a new house, i would campaign to buy a double block of land (so we had a big big backyard to run around in) and build this house for sure!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/&#038;photos\/metricon_laguna_floorplan.jpg\" alt=\"Metricon - The Laguna\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The Laguna floorplan + grand outdoor room\/balcony<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>photos taken from the Metricon website<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;are you STILL looking at that house?&#8221; says my husband. and with that, i realise that yes, i&#8217;m obsessed! after taking Jasper out to the playground this morning, we took a detour and visited the new show homes of Metricon. we drive past it often but never had the chance to go in and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-thumbs-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}