All moved in.

We have just completed our colour selection and I wanted to see what your thought were on what we have chosen. I am keeping the colours pretty plain so they won't date with the stand out feature being the kitchen cupboards, I have chosen American Oak with a brown stain.

For the exterior we have chosen

Mortar - Off White
Roof Tile - Boral Striata Ebony
Fascia & Gutters - Monument
Garage Door - Steeline deco wood chestnut
Windows front only - Timber stained to match garage
Windows - White Birch

Interior

Walls - half strength Wattyl Smooth Horizon
Archs & Roof - Wattyl Classic White
Floors & Walls (whole house) - 600 x 600 Ivory Polished Porcelain tile
Kitchen - American Oak shaker style door stained darkish brown
Kitchen Bench Ceasarstone - Ocean Foam
Bath & Ensuite Ceasarstone - White Shimmer
Bath, Ensuite doors & Laundry doors and overhead cupboards - Wilsonart Laminate Columbian Walnut

Colours (from top, wall colour, arch's, kitchen bench stone, laminate colour, bath/ensuite bench stone, laundry bench, full/half sample of paint and floor tile.

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unsure what happened to my photos???? thought they would appear

I think you have too many IMG codes for your pics, if you delete one [IMG] from the start and end of each pic link then they should display properly (i think)

Thanks, all fixed

No worries

Very nice colour choices and that bath, oh my, its just GORGEOUS!!!!! I am jealous!

Looking forward to seeing your plans.

Hi, we are lookin at going with Dennis also and really like the Hartly. Your colour selections look really lovely, very impressed. If you dont mind me asking, I am just wondering how much of what you chose was from Dennis standard range and for those things that were not in the standard range were the people there able to tell you roughly how much extra each thing would be and did you find the non standard things reasonably priced?

Thanks for the comments, the bath was one thing I really wanted in the ensuite.

Hi JPC, our house is anything from standard, I am sure our sales consultant thinks I am high maintenance I have altered the plan heaps, flipped the bedroom and garage, changed the facade completely, moved rooms around etc, they are really flexible. We also got a list of all the upgrades from the display house, this listed prices for each item, gives you an idea of what isn't standard in the house.

In our colour consultation we upgraded from standard carpet and painting was extra due to choosing white roof & arch's, as standard they only let you pick say the wall colour and then 1/4, 1/2 strengths for arch's and roof, I love white so had to pay the extra. I know what I like and am pretty fussy but I was happy with most items that are standard.

We had 3 quotes before we paid our deposit so we had all the changes made before so we knew roughly what the contract will come in at. They are also happy to take things out so you can organise yourself if you can do it cheaper etc. I just purchased a 900mm oven for under half price and some vanity bowls to match my bath which were cheaper than there standard ones so will have them deleted after contracts.

I will try to scan a copy of the floor plan today.

Floor plan

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Fantastic plan and colors Mac25, massive pantry, what size is it?

Thanks, 3m x 2.3, it was originally half pantry half WIL, but used games room from original plan where Bed 4 is and added WIR, WIL & bigger play room as 4 family/games rooms was to many.

Hi Mac25,
Your house looks great,lovely colours.
We are thinking of building with dennis... how long did it take from deposit stage to signed contract. They are saying about 2.5months to us which seems like a long time.
TIA

3 months will be the end of Feb and they are in the process now, we have made heaps of changes though with the plan so this hasn't helped but I believe 3 months is about standard. It does seem like a long time but we started almost 6 months ago, it took 3 months to get to deposit

Hi Mac. i like your colour choices. we built the hartley and we selected homestead tan brick initially but then went with a selkirk brick (the brick selection did my head in!) anyway we ended up selecting - moonshadow in the 50mm - came up beautiful. Kitchen is similar colours we chose asian night which is also a dark brown with a black strak running through it.

Hi Whitey1, contract signing will be this week so need to make a final decision, we drove past a house being built with Austral Homestead Tan but it has natural mortar and doesn't do it much justice, right next to it was a Boral Mocha with off white mortar and I think I would prefer this as it has more character in each brick with black bits etc. I am totally over bricks

A few changes to our colour selection a similar tile to my original porcelain 600 x 600 floor tiles just heaps cheaper. Also changed caesarstone to Ocean Foam including the kitchen.

Wattyl Smooth Horizon 1/2 strength with Wattyl Classic White arch's and Ocean Foam stone
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Your selections and colours look really good!
Half with the Wattyl Smooth Horizon, should work well.

LOVE the kitchen.

Slab
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Bricking has started on the alfresco
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Hi Mac, your colour choices are amazing. I cant wait to see it all come together!

Thanks, it has been a long process but going so fast now, windows won't be delivered until the 25th so I am guessing it may slow up, roof frame and possibly tiles first due to our parapet walls