Welcome to my thread

Base House before changes
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After changes
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Elevation
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Ensuite/Bathroom Tiles
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Baisins
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Carpet:
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The House:
Mirror robes in the bedrooms
Matt Silver trims and Matt Silver window Trims
Bowl Basins in ensuite & bathroom
Standard door handles in Polished silver
Grey vistapavers for driveway & alfresco
Upgraded the handles in ensuite/bathroom & Kitchen
Alto Mixers throughout the house
shower spouts 50mil to the side so i can change to hand held rails after H/O
SS feat tile in ensuite, no feat in bathroom. Floor/Wall tiles as previous
WA White for eaves - thankgod i could change it from 50% magnolia!
Surfmist Tuscan garage and roller door.
Surfmist gutter, facia etc
Silver Luste windows
Standard M&B Madley front door in surfmist
Austral Collie Bricks and rolled mortar
Kitchen benchtop overhang to 250mm instead of 100mm
Have a dishwasher recess and microwave spot and pot draw next to it - in island
Rebate the front door
413's & conduit for basically everywhere

Thats all I can think of now

Yay Shon you have your thread started

Look forward to seeing what you choose/chose.

I'll keep watch on your contract

Welcome Shonzilla

Great selections you've made Were you going to change the roof colour?

Hi Candylea,
I know! I finally stopped being soo lazy!
Spose its good look back at the end of the process too!

Jodie80,
I started with surfmist
went to shale grey
went to dune
then went back to surfmist with dune gutters
now im preey keen on surfmist for all!

haha, someone should nickname me chameleon because of all the changes

Welcome Shon looks like a great house


Kat

haha I did the exact same thing! Kept changing my mind between surfmist/shale grey/dune but settled on surfmist. Your selections look great!

Thanks Chedasha!
How is your house going?

karakarakara - glad to know that you chose that too!
fingers crossed my whole street hasnt aswell

Yes its going great nearly at lockup stage now.

We are probably going to go the surfmist garage door as well. I like it!

Glad to hear you are nearly done Kat!!

I think ive come to the choice of its either garage or basin!
Gosh I hate choices sooo much!

Orrrrr dont have mixers in the house - although they are great!

Ok Ok, Ill sit down tonight and nut it out

Found a really good idea for my alfresco! (considering its tiny!)
This being years down the track!
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does anyone know the costs to do this?

Just thought id update you all, there isnt much happening because im still waiting on final costs to come back to me... i keep asking for upgrades costs...

I thought there was no harm in asking till I was told that I have to have my slab down in 6months from signing the contract or I dont get the homebuyers grant. EEK

So now its back to saving and getting this sorted by the end of the week (or early next week) then it gets submitted to the shire - more waiting

We went to http://www.stratco.com.au to get our alfresco roof that looks like the one you have pictured. For a custom made DIY kit (5.5 metres x 4.5 metres) we were quoted $4300 for the roof only (ie includes all fittings as required, but not the flooring - we will be using pavers that we already have). Like I said though, that's DIY, so if you wanted someone to install it that would be extra again. Stratco have a DIY kit that is 6m x 3m for $2600 but it is a little more plain and didn't fit where we wanted it to go.

Nic.

Wikkid idea Shon!

thats the exact layout of my back yard and alfresco. i will have about 4.5 from alfresco edge to fence so should be able to put one in to house a bbq (eventual pizza over i hope etc.


Do you know when your titles pass? mine is expected in june/july

at least you have retaining walls now mine is still dirt.

~Nic~
Probably going to have the sailshade up the side to cut costs, im thinking aircon over patio at this point in time.

wrexter,
Ill keep wishing i could have that!
It will probably just have sand at the back for a while!
Id love to get a pizza oven and a spa later down the track!
And turn it into my special paradise

Titles are ment to be Jan then Feb im thinking March...or god forbid...april

Hi,

Just thought id let everyone know that i drove past my block lastnight and there is a 'sold' sign with my lot number on there!

Also that finance should be sorted this week (they said that last week!)

Hopefully my CS gets back to me with all my changes real soon so I get the app to the shire and then get the ball rolling!

Good luck Shon. Hopefully that will come through soon for you

Ok, so today i went to see my CS and did the finals for the prestart - I should call it prestart meeting2 - longover due!

Decided on:

Mirror robes in the bedrooms
Matt Silver trims and Matt Silver window Trims
Pearl Basins in ensuite & bathroom
Standard door handles in Polished silver
Cappuccino vistapavers for driveway & alfresco
Upgraded the handles in ensuite/bathroom & Kitchen
Alto Mixers throughout the house
shower spouts to the side so i can change to hand held rails after H/O
SS feat tile in ensuite, no feat in bathroom. Floor/Wall tiles as previous
WA White for eaves - thankgod i could change it from 50% magnolia! (Im not a fan of cream)
Surfmist Tuscan garage and roller door.
Surfmist gutter, facia etc
Silver Luste windows
Standard M&B Madley front door in surfmist
Austral Collie Bricks and rolled mortar (just to remind myself)

Yay for the second meeting

I think I waked past when you were there

What's this about 50% Magnolia for the eaves? What colour is that?

You have great taste in colours! Our driveways will be the same colour. Out of curiousity, how much were the mirrored robes?

Haha really? CS agreed with the bedpan basin

I agree - I feel bad that i emailed them soo much! Glad its sorted now tho. Just waiting on the price for the pearl basin

phoenixrain - The eaves are painted 50% magnolia, where as the alfresco is WA White (as is everything else) They do it because it hides the dirt more but I think WA White looks better because it matches. If i didnt know about that, it would have been the first thing I would have picked on because strangly, im always looking at roofs.

I decided capp was better than charcoal and silver - saw it on someones driveway and it didnt feel right. Plus ive decided against boarder colour because im going to extend the alfresco later - so the pavers will flow better.

Mirror robes for B2&B3 were $263 total, well worth it because they make the room bigger.

And thankyou
Ive been trying to find what you are choosing but all i could find was your were thinking about linea laminate?
Or am I blind?

Eww. I am so changing to WA White. Didn't even know.

We also changed from the charcoal and silver to cappucino with a charcoal border for the driveway. It would look different from our neighbours too. And we have grano for our porch and alfresco as we will be tiling those after handover.

We didn't decide on the mirror robes because I despise cleaning and the fact that I will probably scare myself in the middle of the night. But you're right, it does make the room bigger.

Haven't got a thread yet. A bit time poor, lack of broadband and procrastination lol. We changed our mind about the Mushroom Linea for the kitchen cupboards, went with Stipple Seal instead.