Our Coral Heron:We're in and LOVING IT!

Well, while DH yells at the Collingwood v StK game, I thought I might start our building thread. I introduced myself a while ago, but just to recap, we're building with C0r@l H0mes just south of Brissy.

Other than a few dramas with land settlement taking about 10 months, so far things have gone quite smoothly. We've made the house a little wider to allow for a cupboard through the Activity room and in the study, and we've extended the roof line to create an alfresco. As you can see from my drawing, I've changed the kitchen once or twice! We replaced the original kitchen with one from another one of their designs, then took out the 60cm wall oven and replaced it with a 90cm. This meant a few modifications to the kitchen and I'll now have HEAPS of bench space . There will be a long window that runs along the kitchen bench on the outside wall. Any suggestions on oven / range hood brand? I'm yet to make that decision!

http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr64/JellyLegs01/HousePlan.jpg

We've made a few preliminary colour choices:

Outside colours:
http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr64/JellyLegs01/OutsideColours.png

Kitchen Colours:
http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr64/JellyLegs01/KITCHEN.png

I would have loved a glass splashback, but just can't justify the expense. I'm not convinced I like the tile we've chosen, but decided to go for the stone colour as we'll probably have a dark grey floor tile and didn't want too much grey in the room. I don't really want to put a colour on the wall either. All paint will be Dulux White on White, so a white tile will just look dull. Suggestions???

Main Bathroom:
http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr64/JellyLegs01/MainBathroom.png
The benchtop will be mushroom linear with a semi-recessed basin.

Ensuite:
http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr64/JellyLegs01/Ensuite.png
The benchtop in the ensuite will be oyster linea, also with the semi-recessed basin. This photo makes it all look quite apricot, but the colours are more of a caramel brown.

Plans are yet to go to council, but I don't think we're too far off that happening. We would have LOVED to have been in before Christmas, but now it most likely won't be 'till early next year.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts!

You had to put up with that too , I haven't dared venture back into the loungeroom yet.



We've just had our plans approved and still aren't sure if we will be in by Christmas 2009 , but I think things tend to move a little more slowly down here

Good luck with it all, hope council don't take too long.

Look forward to watching your progress

plan looks great... could make the lounge a theatre room if you are into watching movies on the big screen!!!

I like your colours.. we are still trying to decide on colours at the moment for our house. We just got our contracts yesterday. So colour selection for us won't be far away!!

Good luck with it all..

Your colours look lovely

looks great, love your colours...

I had to put up with DH yelling at the tv tonight too... He was yelling I was laughing 'pies lost again...hahahaha

It all looks great

I think your feature tiles are the same as Toni's - very nice!!

Good luck with the building journey jellylegs, hope they can get started soon.

Your floorplan looks great - I like the extra bench space! And your colours are lovely too, we are having a few of those colours in our house.

Look forward to watching the progress.

love your colours and the floor plan! we have the polar white and mushroom linea in some of our stuff too....looking forward to watching ur progress!

That's what we're thinking! I don't think we'll ever really use it as a 'formal' lounge, we're more likely to spend all our time outside.

Thanks for the comments on the colours - I can't wait to see it all come together now. If only I had a magic wand to make it all happen over night!

We've just found out that CH have opened a new display home just near us of the same style as ours, so we're packing the kids in the car (much to their delight) and we're off to have a look.

Just clarify, Council's in Queensland generally don't care about house design, unless you are triggered by a setback relaxation or the like. Generally the only thing from Council needed is a plumbing and drainage approval, which is quick because builders aren't totally stumped on why to submit for one.

You're right Bel!!

Jelly legs, I'm having quite a few of your selections too and our first house that we built was with C*ral Homes - Brampton 232 (with a few changes) 11 years ago.

We are having polar white in our kitchen, mushroom linea in our laundry, the white gloss tiles for the showers and similar travertine/noce feature tiles in our ensuite and powder room . We are having the natural finish though and our ensuite ones are square (didn't see the rectangle ones).

All looks great, well done. Hope your build with CH goes well. We had ZERO problems with them, they were fantastic.

Just reviving my 'old' thread after nothing had been happening for us for so long.

Well after waiting FOREVER for council and the bank to evolve, our start date finally arrived today. YAAAAY!! Felt like we'd NEVER get here and that building a house was just a dream.

We arrived at the block this morning to see a big yellow tractor on our block which was VERY exciting. Sad that a tractor is a highlight of my day, but true. Wait till the portaloo arrives, then I'll be doing cartwheels!

Our SS seems great, talked us through everything, what to expect and explained lots to us about the piers and frame and things that are very important to hold our house together. It was good to hear him so enthusiastic about it. Most importantly to us, he let us know that they're getting the houses constructed in about 12 weeks at the moment! Music to our ears after waiting so long.

The tractor was supposed to have been put to use today to cut the block, but when I took the kids back for a look this afternoon, it was still sitting there untouched. Oh well. Pegs are booked for Tuesday, so hopefully it will be done Monday.


Happy Days are here at last!!

I'm sooooo thrilled that you are finally starting..
re.... the tractor, the first thing we saw on our block were the pegs and a huge load of sand!!!
Only people building will ever understand the pure adrenalin as we all see something on our long awaited for dream!!!!!
The next few months are VERY exiting!!!

CONGRATS!!

Just popped out to the block this morning on the off chance something might have been done. Thought it was wishful thinking but NO!! Look what we found:

http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr64/JellyLegs01/100_0298.jpg

We also have lots of dirt to remove eeek. Don't know what we were thinking, we thought we could save it to use for garden fill, but there's heaps of it there.

http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr64/JellyLegs01/100_0300.jpg

Don't worry to much about the dirt yet, they will use some of it in the Slab.

Portaloo arrived today, piers to be done this week and slab due for next week!

Great to see some 'movement' on the block!!!

After waiting so long for things to happen on our patch of grass, pictures of portaloo's, dirt, and churned up dirt are super exciting to us. Every day we're one step closer. I met a guy on Tuesday who is doing a quote for polished concrete for me and I think its going to come in quite reasonably priced. I've seen 2 of his jobs now and my concern is that the sealer he uses has a yellow tinge to it which gives the concrete a brown tone. Nice if its brown you want, but I'm looking for more a of natural grey colour. So, I'll have to have a chat to him today and see if there's something else we can use. This is the sort of look I'm after, not sure if we can achieve it though:
http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr64/JellyLegs01/PolishedConcrete6.jpg
http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr64/JellyLegs01/PolishedConcrete5.jpg

Tuesday:
http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr64/JellyLegs01/100_0312.jpg

Wednesday:
http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr64/JellyLegs01/100_0314.jpg
http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr64/JellyLegs01/100_0316.jpg

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY FOR JELLY LEGS

Congrats for getting to block finally cut. I drove past there yesterday and saw you place getting started... Hope this rain isnt holding you guys up to much.


Love your colours too! Seems as our street is the "big house street" both of the houses that have slabs next to me (on the left) look pretty big too, great news for us, because its not like we are getting little rental specs built near us, like in Easy street.

The rain is making me want to cry right now .

The block has been scarified to 600mm because of the clay soil and is currently filling up like a swimming pool. The plumber can't do anything until the rain stops and the water drains. They're checking daily and our SS was adamant that he'd do everything possible to get us back on schedule again, but this rain looks pretty well set in. We must be cursed.