Arden Developments

My top hints for tender:
1. Think about everything you need that has structural impact (walls, ceiling height, bulkheads, room sizes, etc.) This is your last chance to make changes. Add noggins where you think it will be handy later on (like theatre, living room, ceiling for fans, etc.)
2. Have a list of must-haves, needs, and wants. Be ready to sacrifice where it doesn't matter as much should things go over budget (for example, we prioritised our kitchen vs wall to ceiling bath tiles, etc.).
3. Make sure you get all your electrical requirements priced (additional data, power points, pre-wiring of doorbells and alarms, etc.). Have a think about where you want lights to be placed (for example we had wall lights above the mirror to be changed to led stip lights later on).
4. Review your colour selections and colour sketches to make sure you are happy. Go through everything with a fine tooth comb. (For example we had customised our kitchen cabinetry with wall over and additional drawers, and wanted cabinet hinges to open a certain way, to make sure future stuff like pull out pantries or bins can fit).
5. Write all your changes/questions/clarifications down so you don't miss anything out. Go through them one by one with your tender presenter.

Good luck!

the online reviews for the SMEG dish washer and the SMEG built in microwave oven that came with the Bespoke are terrible. we've had them remove them and leave space there to install our own later (most likely miele or bosch)

Re: taking kids, it's prob easier at this app than colours etc. as they basically read every line of the quote word for word so can be a bit boring.

I was able to re choose external colours and tiles so you can get them to grab things from colour room to see again.

Yeah we ditched the included ones and made some changes:
- freestanding cooktop changed to SMEG PGA96 cooktop via Arden.
- built in rangehood changed to SMEG freestanding rangehood (forgot the model now) via Arden
- scrapped the smeg included dishwasher - we'll buy our own bosch and install after handover
- we'll also have a bosch oven tower (one 45cm one 60cm) to be installed after handover

Any reason for not going everything withBosch?

Do you mind me asking what the price was of the IKEA ones?

My top hints for tender:
1. Think about everything you need that has structural impact (walls, ceiling height, bulkheads, room sizes, etc.) This is your last chance to make changes. Add noggins where you think it will be handy later on (like theatre, living room, ceiling for fans, etc.)
2. Have a list of must-haves, needs, and wants. Be ready to sacrifice where it doesn't matter as much should things go over budget (for example, we prioritised our kitchen vs wall to ceiling bath tiles, etc.).
3. Make sure you get all your electrical requirements priced (additional data, power points, pre-wiring of doorbells and alarms, etc.). Have a think about where you want lights to be placed (for example we had wall lights above the mirror to be changed to led stip lights later on).
4. Review your colour selections and colour sketches to make sure you are happy. Go through everything with a fine tooth comb. (For example we had customised our kitchen cabinetry with wall over and additional drawers, and wanted cabinet hinges to open a certain way, to make sure future stuff like pull out pantries or bins can fit).
5. Write all your changes/questions/clarifications down so you don't miss anything out. Go through them one by one with your tender presenter.

Good luck!

Do you mind me asking what the price was of the IKEA ones?

Id be interested to know what your tender $$ ended up being before you scaled back. I'm not loving what we have to cull lol. Also how many squares is your place?

Id be interested to know what your tender $$ ended up being before you scaled back. I'm not loving what we have to cull lol. Also how many squares is your place?

Id be interested to know what your tender $$ ended up being before you scaled back. I'm not loving what we have to cull lol. Also how many squares is your place?

Id be interested to know what your tender $$ ended up being before you scaled back. I'm not loving what we have to cull lol. Also how many squares is your place?

Hi geminithinker, i have not done my tender. but in my colour browse was told to factor around 2K for kitchen and butlers for cat 4.

Has anyone picked a cat 4 stone for their kitchen? If so which? And cost? Trying to figure out if there is much of a difference in cost between cat4 and cat5

I agree with structural changes. Def be sure of your windows etc. We made a few changes to windows and it's hard to do after tender.

If you have raised ceilings consider increasing external door size. We hadn't and our feature stacker doors finished lower then the window height - luckily it got picked up in time.

We added junction points outside for feature lights to be added later. Also wish we had done LED strip under wall hung cabinets in kitchen instead of down lights. Anyone know if that's hard to change later?

You can use the tender appointment to get anything you want priced. We added some cabinetry to master wardrobe ect. We ditched feature tiles as were very expensive. Thought guide prices from colour appointment were way off actual cost.

We added cold water point behind fridge for future fridge with ice dispenser and an external gas point on deck for BBQ later on.

Anyway you can make a few changes post tender without variation fee if lucky but best to get all structural stuff done at tender time if you can. Having said that we did increase our deck post tender so it is possible.

Good luck!