Hi All,

Now I've been watching and reading various posts, adding a few posts here and there and as someone reminded me, I really should start my own thread (could possibly venture out into a blog - but probably later! ).

It all started last year when out house hunting and getting depressed about the tiny size of established houses in the area (originally looking to renovate) when we came across a beautiful block of land (700sqm) in the right area with a tiny 2 bedroom house. DH suggested how about we knock it down and rebuild what we want!

Current Front yard
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Current Back yard - lots of beautiful established fruit trees but all in the wrong spot!
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So we've been in negotiations and will be building the Fernleigh 36B - although we haven't signed a building contract yet!

http://www.masterton.com.au/fernleigh36b.htm

We've made only minor changes to the floorplan
- Garage extended forward 1m (removing the pillars) and widened 60cm
- Doubled the size of the wardrobes in beds 2 & 3
- Cavity slider to close off the 'great room'
- doors to the study and WIR
- Windows to side of great room, laundry, living room, bedroom 1 and upstairs lounge

External Colour Selections

Bricks - PGH Pearl Grey (with ironed off white mortar)
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Roof - Monier Traditional Roof Tiles in Barramundi
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Gutters - Monument
Fascia - Dune
Downpipes - Dune
Windows - Silver
Front Door - Taubmans Jet Grey (dark blue grey)

Demolition should hopefully commence 30 June!

We are very excited but frustrated that nothing is happening just yet! Stay tuned for more exciting pictures when we actually get to demolition!

The Roses

Hi The Roses, The new house will look great and think of all the extra room. I can understand why you would remove the pillars as I could see someone (me) running into them.
Hope things pick up soon.

R

hi mrs rose! you have a thread - yay!!! you have given me heaps of great feedback and handy suggestions over the last few months so will be happy to reciprocate where i can

you colours sound lovely - some of mine in there too great minds think alike...

Hi MrsRose!!

Nice choice of brick I cannot wait to see the brick with the off white mortar and the colours in our builds are quite similar Very nice plans, love the big linen cupboard.

Look forward to more pics!!

Thanks all! I'm so excited to have posts on my thread!

R, The pillars definitely had to go - DH had the same fear and the car is DH's pride and joy and essentially treated like the first born son... Looking forward to the space, not looking forward to the cleaning!

Tillie, my DH looks upon you as our saviour as it was your pictures that finally convinced me we didn't have to upgrade the bricks! [DH interjects a "hell yeah!" in background]

The linen cupboard is going to be my kitchen equipment storeroom - bread maker, food processor, cast iron pots etc! I looove cooking and can't wait to use my shiny new toys!

Jess, I have found everyone's threads about their own colour selections so helpful - a great source of inspiration and shared stress about selections, makes me feel more normal!

My DH is the same with his car. We will be able to garage it at our new home. I drive it but he is the only one that can clean it properly.

I was too worried about the Pearl Grey bricks untill I saw Tillies's place and they look great.

We were talking to Head Office today and our electricals are still a long way off. So much for 2 weeks after colour selection.

R

i have to agree with this tillie & mrsrose - i have chosen roof tiles, gutters and facia the same as you tillie (with dune render), and everytime i'm not sure i just look at your pics and am relieved to see how good your selections look

Mrs Rose, R and R and Building with Coral 2009 I am glad that my pics have eased any doubt that you may have, as I was SO VERY worried about my colour choices and the brick But I am absoloutely thrilled with how they have turned out and look forward to all of your brick pics

It will be interesting to see with the differeing mortars etc... Fingers crossed that the bricks are not too far away

PS I thought that I was the only one with the Pear Grey brick and maybe I had "different" taste, as in my thread I have stated that I am fashion and also colour challenged Michelle's thread was also a great help with the external and internal colours

Hi All,

To help kill the boredom I thought I'd update my thread - we're waiting for something.... anything.... to happen to progress our house (still waiting for construction plans, building contract signing and electrical appointment). We're both so excited but frustrated that there is nothing we can do to speed this process up!

Anyway.... [rant over]

After admiring many peoples colour selections and trying to get a hold on what colour scheme I'd like I've gone with beige to charcoal tones throughout the house. We have all dark brown furniture so I didn't want to overdose on chocolate colours!

Internal Paint - Taubmans Living Proof Silk in Moon River (similar colour to Dulux Hog Bristle - I've inlcuded it instead as I didn't have a sample of Hazel Snow). Skirtings, architraves, ceilings and doors to be painted white.
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Downstairs Flooring
Queensland Spotted Gum with waterbased gloss coating - brings out the browns, greys and olive tones in the wood.
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Upstairs Flooring
Kimberley Espresso Carpet in 100% wool
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Kitchen
Benchtop - 20mm Quantum Quartz Catalina
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Cupboards - Polyurethane High Gloss in New Antique White... I'm still a bit iffy on my choice, I originally wanted to go with Alabaster but was talked out of it on the day.... Its not as pink in real life more like a very light beige/off white.
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SMEG appliances - 90cm freestanding cooker and rangehood (ducted externally), 60cm wall oven, dishwasher.
Splashback - still undecided, will probably go with a glass one but do it after handover... so I can see how all the colours work together... happy for any suggestions...

Bathroom & Ensuite
Floor & Bathtub Hob - Manhatten Espresso 200x200 tiles - standard range
Wall - Gloss White 200x300 - laid vertically so that the grout lines line up with the floor tiles
No feature tile - we'll have chrome heated towel rail and fixtures instead.
Not a picture of my exact selections except for the floor tile but at least it shows it against a white wall tile...
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Basin - Caroma Liano inset (square)
Bath - Stylus Newbury 1700mm (rectangular)
Vanity Benchtop - 20mm Quantum Quartz Luna White
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Vanity - Laminex Espresso Ligna
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Caroma Aqua Mixers to basin, shower and bath

Powder Room & Laundry
Floor & skirting - Manhatten Espresso 200x200 tiles - standard range
PR vanity - Laminex Fudgestream in horizontal (I fell in love with Suh's and just had to have it!)
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Vanity Benchtop - 20mm Quantum Quartz Luna White
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PR Splashback - Rococo Latte in vertical
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Laundry Splash - boring beige tile in vertical - matches wall paint
Caroma Aqua Mixer to PR only

What do people think? have I achieved my goal of browns and charcoals? or will it be too much...

Hi Mrs Rose, Your colours look great. It looks like you have achieved what you wanted. Can't wait to see how it all goes together.

Hopefully something happens for you soon.

R

OK, now we were expecting the house to be demolished by the end of the week. DH was expecting to be onsite however he received an email Monday lunchtime saying it'll be finished by the end of the day!! Abracadabra! its all gone!!!

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There is no fence b/w us and our neighbour, hence our desire to be onsite to make sure nothing was damaged as his carport is right on the boundary!

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Our nice flat block!!

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Hope it wasn't workers comp! and at least they enjoyed the oranges too... it was a shame to lose the fruit trees but we wanted a backyard more!

Wow!! for something that takes months (years) to build it is all gone in a flash. Hopefully it won't be long till your new home gets started.

R

Gone so quickly!!!!

Clean slate to start from Very nice pics, shame about the fruit trees, but amybe you could get the dwarf varieties???

Can't wait to see the bricks and off white mortar!!!!

Hi Tillie,

We're definitely hoping to do some dwarf fruit trees - maybe the combined ones... eg lemon with lime. At least we know they'll grow well!

Still waiting to sign the building contract. So no start date on the bricks with white!

Great to see a nice flat block amazing what they can do in just a day.

How long until they start the house do you think?

Our latest update/set of plans... needless to say this set has taken almost 2 years!! and with the "draftsperson" for 12 weeks...

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pretty amazing... should be ready in another 6 months... the house will take another 9!

At least though, we now have our contracts which we're reviewing this weekend and hopefully signing Monday if all goes to plan...

Congratulations Mr and Mrs Rose. Just awesome. Hope it keeps going along smoothly.

R

Thanks R!

We're just so excited to finally have a child to go with the "family" house we're building! Everyone has always looked slightly perplexed that we're moving out to the 'burbs' and building a 4 bedroom house when we didn't have kids...

We were back out there today looking at the same pile of dirt, walked around enjoying the sunshine (its good building weather!), feeling more positive about the whole building gig... want that pile of dirt gone and a house there instead!! faster! faster!

congrats mrs rose!!!!!! you have a jellybean to and a cute one at that

Thanks Jess! We've actually been referring to it as "the bean" or "beanie baby" so "jellybean" is more than apt! We think its very cute and definitely takes after DH with the big head!! Although the doctor assures me it will become more in proportion with the rest of the body!