After spending a LONG time reading about other peoples builds (and getting lots of good tips and inspiration), I’ve decided to start my own thread (for anyone who’s interested in reading!!).

At the start of this year my husband and I decided that we wanted to build a new house. We bought a block of land and after visiting lots of display homes we decided to build with Henley- the Monaco Q1. So we’ve sold our old house and are currently renting around the corner from our block (so we can have our regular visits!).


Here are our house plans after some modifications.

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Now one of the things that I REALLY wanted in my new house was a big WIR. And of course, somehow we’ve managed to choose the only Henley house with a small WIR!! (which was made even smaller when we flipped the front of the house to suit our block better). Oh well (we loved everything else so I guess it’s a small compromise!) We have deleted the WIR fittings so that we can maximise the space afterwards with fitted drawers/shelves etc



Here are some photos of our colour selections


External –

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Brick- Austral tan
Mortar-Off white raked
Roof - Magnum
Fascia & gutters- Monument
Downpipes and windows – Jasper
Render to front pillars -Ceylonese
Garage door- Colourgrain coaba
Front door- Corinthian MAD 104- Merbau stain


Internal-

Kitchen

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Overhead cupboards- White Ali-frost perspex
Kitchen cabinet doors/drawers- Polar white gloss vinyl wrap
Bench top- CS Ice snow
Glass splashback- Stonecrop on starfire (still not 100% on this one- too dark???)


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Bathroom & Ensuite

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Vanity top- CS Snow
Cabinet doors- Laminex Licorice Linea
Floor tiles/shower/bath hob- Chalet Mocha
Feature tile- Emperador Blend
Wall tiles- White gloss

(The photo above shows laminex- espresso ligna which was our original choice but we've changed this to licorice linea- shown below- they are very similar!)

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Laundry

Counter top- Laminex Stipple seal
Cabinets- Laminex Licorice linea
Floor tiles- Chalet Mocha
Wall tile- White gloss


Paint colour

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Most walls- Dulux Beige royal
Bathroom, ensuite and laundry walls- Dulux Beige royal quarter
Skirting, doors etc- Dulux Natural white

Timber stacker doors and timber windows to be stained – Merbau



We plan on laying Spotted gum timber floors (after handover) to our entry, kitchen, meals, and family area and carpeting the rest.



Here are a couple of photos of our slab which was poured on Monday!

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Our extended garage!

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Our site was scraped 3 weeks ago now (2nd July) and the timber was delivered for the frames yesterday! Can’t wait to go down today to see if they’ve started any frame work!!!

Congrats on starting a thread. You've got a nice looking slab there. Hopefully they don't waste too much time before they start the frame. I love your colour selections, very nice.

Thanks Carlswil! Just got a call from DH. The SS rang him to say that they've started the frame work! YAY! Will have to take the dogs for a walk down there later today!

Also had a look at your thread... love the size of bed 3 (good decision!). Plenty of living space too! Very nice Hopefully you won't have to wait too long before they start.

That's great that they've started the frame.

Thanks for your comments. We love how open our house is, and like the space. I'm just getting really impatient for them to start.

Love all your colour selections, cant wait to see your house come together

Very informative first post. Its a really good plan with no wasted space. Its a pity about the WIR but as you said small sacrifice.
Cant wait to see some progress for you!

arent you clever with those colour selections..whoaoao! well done, it is going to look GORGEOUS!
I like the splashback, for what it is worth. Dont think it is too dark.

if the family rm is north facing,? it will be fine.

Like your brick too...very stylie.
look forward to your build

Thanks Erin! I've been following both your threads and I must say that you have got the most STUNNING kitchen! I've been loving the photo reveals of your house- Thank-you for sharing them with us!



Thanks Boiselfish. One of the things that I really enjoy about this forum is being able to look at other peoples floorplans/colour selections/photos and getting inspiration from them (this was especially helpful when I was trying to choose my house colours). So I thought that I would share mine too!!



Thanks Kiwi! I found lots of inspiration on this forum for my colours (especially love the "show me your kitchen" thread!) But DH wants me to stop looking at other peoples photos now coz he's sick of me asking him if we've made the right choices!!

Also our family room faces north/west so it should get lots of sun!

Took the dogs for a walk down to the house yesterday arvo- they've started the frame work!
We had a good time walking through the house and getting a feel for where everything will be!
SS told us that it should take them about a week to finish the frame.

Here are a couple of photos.


Front of house looking through entry
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Back of the house
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Looking into the family room through the alfresco
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Looking good I really like your plans and colour selection. The external colours will look great - especially the front door, which will be a feature

WOW so quick, how luck.

Walking through the house at frame stage is so fun. Hope you dogs enjoyed it too!

Thanks Rowena! I'm really happy with the external colours! I just hope the merbau stain for the front door matches the garage door (it did in the sample at colour selections!) Another one of those colour decisions that we'll just have to wait and see! (much like our glass splashback in the kitchen)




The dogs had a ball racing through the house (so did I!! )

Went for a drive past the house yesterday and we had half a roof!!
The builders were out there again today when we went for a walk in the afternoon. They had almost finished the other half of the roof trusses. They told us they had planned to have it finished today but the architect had gotten part of the drawings wrong so they'll need to come back to finish the roof once it's sorted (the part above our master bedroom).

Had another walk through the house once the builders had left (shhhh )- it's very exciting to see the house take shape!!


Here are some more photos from today:

Front of the house (not the best picture- hard to fit it all in!!)
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Back of the house
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Our garage
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The alfresco
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Your house is looking great. I bet it's good to see it all coming together.

All of your selections look really good, will be fun to see it all come together. Congrats on your frame! Very exciting!

Thanks! We are both super excited
After waiting for what feels like an eternity- it is nice to finally see the house take shape!!
Went past the house again this afternoon (I can't stay away!) The rest of the roof was up- so the error in the drawings musn't have been too big an issue (thank goodness)!

After spying these gorgeous bar stools on other peoples threads...I couldn't resist them!!!

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They are from OZ Plaza on ebay (there is a thread dedicated to them viewtopic.php?f=36&t=33777&hilit=ozplaza)

I bought 4 of them in white for about $250 (that includes postage).

I'm not too sure that the white seats and my 12 month old will mix very well though

great floor plan ! i especially like how your walk-in robe is along side your ensuite, looks like your building process is certainly coming along! i find it interesting how different states build houses, in perth they dont use timber frames, just bricks, except for the roof frame of course

Thanks Jaye_Jol! It's funny, I was just showing my husband your floorplan and saying how much I like your walk in robes!!
Yeah, I noticed that Perth houses are built differently to Melb (after seeing some photos on someone elses thread!!) It's interesting seeing it done a different way

Oh wow, they are certainly not mucking around with your build. It is looking great. How exciting! I can't wait until we reach the frame stage ... we have been in the planning process for more than 12 months now!! Your colour selections are great too.

Looking forward to watching your house grow

PS.... those stools are awesome!! We don't have a breakfast bar so don't need stools BUT I might need to look at getting some for the mancave