Building a Waldorf or Marriot by Porter Davis

BellaButterfly · May 30, 2013 8:48 pm

natasha8850

i liked the open flow! i was going to use the first carpeted family room as a kids room.. but hubby has stole it as his games room!! haha
and to break up the exteneded lounge and the dinning room i thought just a buffet or something? as i wasnt keen up closing it up with a wall! but everyones different!

I'm not so sure how I feel. My home in the US had closed off walls so its what I am used to although everytime I go to see the greenvale Waldorf I love the openness of it. We definitely will be using a buffet instead of a wall between the lounge and the dining if we go that route.

Here are our plans

notice the rumpus is now a bedroom and the retreat will be my dressing room.

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Here is the first floor. I don't know how well you can tell but that line right on the word " games" to the back wall will be specifically for the dogs.
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natasha8850 · May 30, 2013 9:08 pm

youve made lots of changes looks awsome!! if only we were allowed pets inside.. apart from the rabbit, think my daughter would really benifit from a cat or dog!!
i love what you've done with the galley having it open where the storage room is!
we got the top retreat as well.. i went upstairs the first time on the weekend! you should see how big it makes the master bedroom look!! you will love it!!

BellaButterfly · May 30, 2013 9:19 pm

natasha8850

youve made lots of changes looks awsome!! if only we were allowed pets inside.. apart from the rabbit, think my daughter would really benifit from a cat or dog!!
i love what you've done with the galley having it open where the storage room is!
we got the top retreat as well.. i went upstairs the first time on the weekend! you should see how big it makes the master bedroom look!! you will love it!!

That galley is all my partners I just designed it based on what she wanted.

I love my pets i have 2 dogs and a cat and they are really family. I do think children benefit from pets especially if they have an active role in taking care of them, makes them responsible. Ours are little things and I couldn't imagine leaving them outside but at the same time I cant imagine them roaming around such a beautiful house. This is my compromise since the family room is right there they can see us and with supervision come into the family room but that's about it. My little girl dog Koko is a hoarder and steals. She has a bit of a fixation with card...credit cards, store cards and ID we have all found in her hiding place. It was driving us mental especially when she stole the AMEX my partner was convinced i had lost it. Kuki the little boy dog has moments where he feels its ok to go inside......not happening in my new house. We have tried everything. For months he will be fine and then one day decide.... im gonna have a poo on the laundry floor...seems like a good idea

. and well the cat..... she is lord of all and i doubt she will stay out of the rest of the house with her evil shedding but overall shes good. No stealing or pooing....just heaps of shedding.

I can't wait to see more of your house it looks great so far and gives me some sort of frame of reference. Have you seen any other Waldorfs with the extra rooms ??

natasha8850 · May 30, 2013 9:29 pm

BellaButterfly

natasha8850

youve made lots of changes looks awsome!! if only we were allowed pets inside.. apart from the rabbit, think my daughter would really benifit from a cat or dog!!
i love what you've done with the galley having it open where the storage room is!
we got the top retreat as well.. i went upstairs the first time on the weekend! you should see how big it makes the master bedroom look!! you will love it!!

That galley is all my partners I just designed it based on what she wanted.

I love my pets i have 2 dogs and a cat and they are really family. I do think children benefit from pets especially if they have an active role in taking care of them, makes them responsible. Ours are little things and I couldn't imagine leaving them outside but at the same time I cant imagine them roaming around such a beautiful house. This is my compromise since the family room is right there they can see us and with supervision come into the family room but that's about it. My little girl dog Koko is a hoarder and steals. She has a bit of a fixation with card...credit cards, store cards and ID we have all found in her hiding place. It was driving us mental especially when she stole the AMEX my partner was convinced i had lost it. Kuki the little boy dog has moments where he feels its ok to go inside......not happening in my new house. We have tried everything. For months he will be fine and then one day decide.... im gonna have a poo on the laundry floor...seems like a good idea

. and well the cat..... she is lord of all and i doubt she will stay out of the rest of the house with her evil shedding but overall shes good. No stealing or pooing....just heaps of shedding.

I can't wait to see more of your house it looks great so far and gives me some sort of frame of reference. Have you seen any other Waldorfs with the extra rooms ??

I have a cat!! which me and my best friend had when we love together she got the girl cat and i got the boy cat out of the litre, i love my cat! when i first met my husband he said i could bring him.. that was the deal.. but after a while he got sick of him

it was hard my boy wasnt happy there.. so he went back to my mums as i was there before my husbands.. she has a cat tooo and had two dogs at the time! so he loved the attention from the other animals.. but now we are staying here! my daughter has grown so close with my cat.. it'll be sad when we leave again! but i know he is happier here!
id love a med to large dog! but i refuse to leave it out side.. so no point in getting one!

great idea to take a photo of the plans so i have tired to do this for you!

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I havent seen one a waldorf with any add ones.. i have asked they said they dont do them!! just over the options..

would be so much better to go and see the space!!

BellaButterfly · May 30, 2013 9:42 pm

Did you extend the garage.

I love the way your master is but the missus ( love that word ) has a special request for the walk in robe option we chose.

I think the hardest thing about the options is the fact that we can't see them live and in person. I have looked far and wide for a blog, picture something with the two extra rooms and nothing.

I'd put my foot down on the cat. I love my dogs but i LOVEEEE my cat. shes like a baby and loves a cuddle. I'd miss her too much but ultimately you have to have both parties happy. I'm not so crash hot on dogs in the house but now that they are here well I love them. We have so much land i'm sure they will be running rampant on it in no time and leaving my house clean.

I realized my cat is either going to attack the rhoomba or run from it lmao

natasha8850 · May 30, 2013 9:52 pm

yes we did extened the garage and got the roller door out the back!!
i havent seen a blog with them either! would be nice if they even did one house in melbourne with an add on!!
i cant wait till hubby goes away so i can go shopping end of june sales to get my roomba!! haha and we wont be here to ring and ask! its about the only good thing about him going away i think!

BellaButterfly · May 30, 2013 9:58 pm

natasha8850

yes we did extened the garage and got the roller door out the back!!
i havent seen a blog with them either! would be nice if they even did one house in melbourne with an add on!!
i cant wait till hubby goes away so i can go shopping end of june sales to get my roomba!! haha and we wont be here to ring and ask! its about the only good thing about him going away i think!

I am so glad we arent building until Nov because our house will just about be done by next years end of the financial year sale. Thankfully my partner generally lets me buy what I want without too much fuss unless its shoes then i get a lecture about how I cant possibly need alother pair.

I buy those when shes not around like tonight she has a function it would have been a perfect night to smuggle in shoes.

I'm looking now at my windows and we have a big one i think in the media room. I'm wondering if i can get it removed all together. its not needed. Maybe move it to the dogs room.

I'm fairly sure they would have had to do at least one games and family option. They should have asked the owner to take some pics for reference. I'm actually going to do a blog for that reason. I have i think 4 options. Games and family . the adjusted galley, the WIR option and the shared bath, 5 if you include turning the rumpus into a bedroom.

natasha8850 · May 30, 2013 10:10 pm

hubby is ok with clothes and shoes.. but house hold things that cost alot.. he can be funny about unless he see's the reason for it!! haha

its a massive window think the same as the dinning room? you can get it probally 1200-2410S which is what we got! we wanted no window too, but that isnt compliant.. and a big no no!

some light and ventilation rule!! we are probally going to get roller shuter to cover it! who wants a window in a theatre room!! im alittle lazy on a blog.. im abit of a perfectist.. and it would do my head in trying to do it.. making sure i list everything ect.. i did start a scrap book! thats as far as i got! once they start doing the walls ect will be happy to post pics for all to see

teinna · May 30, 2013 11:08 pm

Hi guys, hope your builds are going smoothly. I'd like to ask anyone who got the included ducted heating and refrigerated cooling with PD: do you have separate outlets for the heating and cooling or just one outlet per room which has both? I'm a bit worried as the display homes have two outlets for heating and cooling separately. But my house only has the one outlet. Asked my SS who was puzzled and said he'll check if it's correct, but he hasn't got back to us. From what i understand the heating is gas right? So could they actually combine a ducted gas heater with refrigerated cooling in the one flu?

natasha8850 · May 30, 2013 11:31 pm

I believe it's two because the air cond is evaporative cooling on the displays, if u get a add on to the Bravis heating you can have the same vent, but you'd need too upgrade the vent size to be 8" I believe!
Just depends what you get! Becareful depending on what house and extras you get, you might need to zone it has the units aren't big enough to cover the whole house at once!!
Something they might not inform you of! As air and heating aren't really there thing they just provide it!

madhouse1 · May 30, 2013 11:39 pm

I'm pretty sure Natasha is right too. From memory the refrigerated add on Brivis can use the same outlets but they need to be the bigger sized ones.
We spoke to a local heating and cooling place and took our plans in to discuss our best options, they understand the options available much more thoroughly than pd do.
We went with the upgraded 5 star heating system and the evaporative cooling, with the intention of adding a split system downstairs for those rare humid days. And well also add the networking option to the heating so that we can zone up and downstairs as we need to.
Also make sure you look into whether you can have upstairs and downstairs refrig cooling running at the same time. I'm pretty sure it's one OR the other???

madhouse1 · May 30, 2013 11:41 pm

Oh and I meant to write go to the Brivis website if you haven't already it has lots of info on what's available....but if nothing else speak to a heating and cooling specialist, that's the best advice you can find!!

natasha8850 · May 30, 2013 11:46 pm

Yeah we been to a few places as well!

That's what we are doing but getting two cooling units one up one down as the house is -"almost 60sq! And then a add on unit for the humid days!
We swaped and changed our heating and cooling so much! It was so confusing! To upgrade the vents I think was about 1700 but its better because of the air cond!

tstr1a · May 31, 2013 9:11 am

teinna

Hi guys, hope your builds are going smoothly. I'd like to ask anyone who got the included ducted heating and refrigerated cooling with PD: do you have separate outlets for the heating and cooling or just one outlet per room which has both? I'm a bit worried as the display homes have two outlets for heating and cooling separately. But my house only has the one outlet. Asked my SS who was puzzled and said he'll check if it's correct, but he hasn't got back to us. From what i understand the heating is gas right? So could they actually combine a ducted gas heater with refrigerated cooling in the one flu?

Hi teinna,

We upgraded the most efficient heating system (brivis has on offer) HX 35i. We also added the biggest refrigerated cooling they had as well.

We had additional zones installed so we can regulate the temperature between zones. Most importantly we had 2 thermostats installed (upstairs & downstairs) otherwise it would be impossible to regulate tem between zones.

We also had PD provision a gas point, a GPO and build a nib wall, I had fireplace installed post-handover in the lounge and it looks awesome.

tstr1a · May 31, 2013 9:13 am

natasha8850

yes we did extened the garage and got the roller door out the back!!
i havent seen a blog with them either! would be nice if they even did one house in melbourne with an add on!!
i cant wait till hubby goes away so i can go shopping end of june sales to get my roomba!! haha and we wont be here to ring and ask! its about the only good thing about him going away i think!

We had the garage extended and got the roller door out the back as well. Best thing we ever done. So convenient!

ma2531 · Jun 02, 2013 9:05 am

BellaButterfly

So I finally made it out to Hopetoun Interiors and let me tell you it was extremely disappointing.

My partner is one of the most laid back meh types and generally could care less about decor and even she put her foot wayyyy down. We saw the vast ( sarcasm) selection of door handles and when the woman quoted $7-$45 in upgrades I think my partner turned purple. Then when I would ask her about something she pretty much giggled brushed it off and went ""well this is standard". I got to the point where I actually asked her to kindly ignore standard and budget and just show me what I asked for. Then I asked about the laminex kitchens. Laminex did a gorgeous kitchen for a M##$*con customer and I was wondering since she pretty much created her dream kitchen from scratch could they do that for me. The girls response was ....wait for it.... "*giggle* I dunno"

Needless to say we stayed for less than 30 mins. At least we decided so far on white cupboards ( they do have a shaker profile as well as panel options but according to dopey aka giggle girls I have to speak to PD directly to ask for the paneled option because.... " I dunno ".

This is a kitchen built in a M home I love
http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx24/bellabutterfly09/waldorf%2048/lightsinkitchen.jpg

This is a Kitchen from the Laminex Brochure they did for M.

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx24/bellabutterfly09/waldorf%2048/met.jpg

If they can do it for M I don't see why they cant for PD.

I want to know what all people did after handover because my list is getting extensive. Flooring, Fireplaces, Carrara Marble back splash ( giggles was appalled I turned by back on the glass splash back.... how dare I ).

I need to keep visiting the Greenvale Waldorf to keep my sanity. My mantra is becoming "it can be changed, it can be changed" let us pray

now thats the kitchen i wanted also..............how beautiful is it.. but i guess we had to compremise.

jnkbids · Jun 02, 2013 10:54 pm

tstr1a

Hi teinna,

We upgraded the most efficient heating system (brivis has on offer) HX 35i. We also added the biggest refrigerated cooling they had as well.

We had additional zones installed so we can regulate the temperature between zones. Most importantly we had 2 thermostats installed (upstairs & downstairs) otherwise it would be impossible to regulate tem between zones.

We also had PD provision a gas point, a GPO and build a nib wall, I had fireplace installed post-handover in the lounge and it looks awesome.

Hey tstr1a, if it is not too much trouble, can you post a pic of ur air-con controller unit (the one on the wall).. I think PD might have made a mistake with mine. I copied ur upgrade and ur 2 zone upgrade but I think they delivered the wrong wall controller...

My build has so many mistakes with the upgrades I am tearing my hair out!!!

tstr1a · Jun 02, 2013 11:04 pm

jnkbids

tstr1a

Hi teinna,

We upgraded the most efficient heating system (brivis has on offer) HX 35i. We also added the biggest refrigerated cooling they had as well.

We had additional zones installed so we can regulate the temperature between zones. Most importantly we had 2 thermostats installed (upstairs & downstairs) otherwise it would be impossible to regulate tem between zones.

We also had PD provision a gas point, a GPO and build a nib wall, I had fireplace installed post-handover in the lounge and it looks awesome.

Hey tstr1a, if it is not too much trouble, can you post a pic of ur air-con controller unit (the one on the wall).. I think PD might have made a mistake with mine. I copied ur upgrade and ur 2 zone upgrade but I think they delivered the wrong wall controller...

My build has so many mistakes with the upgrades I am tearing my hair out!!!

http://www.brivis.com.au/content.cfm?content=145
see link, it's the networker

jnkbids · Jun 02, 2013 11:09 pm

tstr1a

http://www.brivis.com.au/content.cfm?content=145
see link, it's the networker

Thanks heaps! Will triple check mine to make sure it looks exactly like the one in the link... You have been extremely helpful and GREATLY APPRECIATE ur blog too!

natasha8850 · Jun 03, 2013 11:01 am

who here is getting or have the Bolero flooring and what can you tell me about it? someone here the other day said it shouldnt get too wet...
so im guessing shouldnt be moped every second day?
would a steam mop be better or worst for it?