Browse Forums Building A New House Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 14083Oct 29, 2016 9:27 pm Building the Cordova One with McDonald Jones at Calderwood Valley, NSW: http://calderwoodvalley.blogspot.com.au/ Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 14084Oct 30, 2016 8:51 pm Building the Cordova One with McDonald Jones at Calderwood Valley, NSW: http://calderwoodvalley.blogspot.com.au/ Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 14087Oct 30, 2016 9:35 pm Building the Cordova One with McDonald Jones at Calderwood Valley, NSW: http://calderwoodvalley.blogspot.com.au/ Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 14093Nov 03, 2016 3:26 pm CathyLeigh Building the Monte Carlo Executive with rear activities with Balinese Resort Facade, Salt Water Beach Estate, Wallabi Point Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 14094Nov 03, 2016 3:30 pm sunshine202 We have completed all our selections for our Bronte Executive Lodge and I thought I'd share some them. Main structural changes are as follows: * We chose the Contemporary Facade but deleted the brick stacks * Deleted the office cut out *2.7m ceiling and increased the height of doors and windows *Coffered ceilings in the entry and family/living rooms *Extended the alfresco grande out over the children's activity area *Sliding cavity door between kitchen and Butler's pantry *Sliding cavity door to ensuite *Mirror reversed the recess in the children's activity to be in the family room. Nib wall to remain between the 2 recesses *Changed to an aluminium sliding window in ensuite and bathroom that is at head height Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ *2 hung doors between children's activities/dining instead of square set opening *Extended the width of the garage by 1m, extended the length of the single garage side by 0.5m, and extended the length of the double garage side by 1m. *We are also upgrading the size of the garage doors to 3200mm and 5040mm wide and this needed to be taken into consideration at plan stage *At our plan appointment we added reinforcement to the walls where TV's will be hung and an outdoor tap near the garage. Hopefully this will be helpful to someone in the future. We are building the same home!!! With a few changes to plan & many issues later Good luck Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 14095Nov 03, 2016 3:34 pm sunshine202 Thought I'd also do another post about our Bronte Executive Lodge colour selections Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Our basic selections are: *Austral urban fringe praline bricks *Colorbond Basalt roof *Colorbond dune facia then from left to right in photo is Caoba stain for our front and laundry door, taubmans winter ice for eaves,Taubmans calico beige for bag and paint, surfmist windows, and monument garage doors Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ For kitchen we upgraded to 2 Pak gloss colour matched to polytec polar white. We chose caesarstone white shimmer for the bench tops in 20mm but with a waterfall end. And blast grey 3 for the splash back Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Last photo has our internal paint choices in the back-Taubmans Illusive White for ceilings etc, Taubmans Winter Ice for all interior walls except bathroom and ensuite which are going to be Taubman's Gemini Silver. We are having the same tiles in bathroom and ensuite-Bellingen White for the walls and Bellingen Charcoal for the floors. With Caesarstone Urban for the vanity tops and vanity in polar White sheen. There are alot of other small and big upgrades we did and I could go on forever but will leave it at this. Where r u building? Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 14096Nov 03, 2016 10:52 pm jackie_saliba sunshine202 Thought I'd also do another post about our Bronte Executive Lodge colour selections Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Our basic selections are: *Austral urban fringe praline bricks *Colorbond Basalt roof *Colorbond dune facia then from left to right in photo is Caoba stain for our front and laundry door, taubmans winter ice for eaves,Taubmans calico beige for bag and paint, surfmist windows, and monument garage doors Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ For kitchen we upgraded to 2 Pak gloss colour matched to polytec polar white. We chose caesarstone white shimmer for the bench tops in 20mm but with a waterfall end. And blast grey 3 for the splash back Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Last photo has our internal paint choices in the back-Taubmans Illusive White for ceilings etc, Taubmans Winter Ice for all interior walls except bathroom and ensuite which are going to be Taubman's Gemini Silver. We are having the same tiles in bathroom and ensuite-Bellingen White for the walls and Bellingen Charcoal for the floors. With Caesarstone Urban for the vanity tops and vanity in polar White sheen. There are alot of other small and big upgrades we did and I could go on forever but will leave it at this. Where r u building? We are building on the Central Coast. Have spoken to a few people who have built locally with MJH and all have been really happy with their build. Hoping it goes the same way for us...Whereabouts are you building? Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 14097Nov 03, 2016 11:29 pm CathyLeigh Hi sunshine202, Your selections look great. We have a couple of things similar to you. We too went 2 pak for the kitchen and colour matched to polar white but we also colour matched to a grey as well for some of the cupboards. We have the white shimmer benchtops in the kitchen also with the 20mm waterfall ends. We also went Winter Ice for the internal wall colour. Look forward to seeing it all come together for you. Thanks CathyLeigh-If my house turns out as nice as yours I'll be happy! Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 14098Nov 04, 2016 8:03 am I am sure it will turn out beautiful Sunshine202. Your selections look great. CathyLeigh Building the Monte Carlo Executive with rear activities with Balinese Resort Facade, Salt Water Beach Estate, Wallabi Point Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 14099Nov 04, 2016 3:41 pm sunshine202 jackie_saliba sunshine202 Thought I'd also do another post about our Bronte Executive Lodge colour selections Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Our basic selections are: *Austral urban fringe praline bricks *Colorbond Basalt roof *Colorbond dune facia then from left to right in photo is Caoba stain for our front and laundry door, taubmans winter ice for eaves,Taubmans calico beige for bag and paint, surfmist windows, and monument garage doors Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ For kitchen we upgraded to 2 Pak gloss colour matched to polytec polar white. We chose caesarstone white shimmer for the bench tops in 20mm but with a waterfall end. And blast grey 3 for the splash back Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Last photo has our internal paint choices in the back-Taubmans Illusive White for ceilings etc, Taubmans Winter Ice for all interior walls except bathroom and ensuite which are going to be Taubman's Gemini Silver. We are having the same tiles in bathroom and ensuite-Bellingen White for the walls and Bellingen Charcoal for the floors. With Caesarstone Urban for the vanity tops and vanity in polar White sheen. There are alot of other small and big upgrades we did and I could go on forever but will leave it at this. Where r u building? We are building on the Central Coast. Have spoken to a few people who have built locally with MJH and all have been really happy with their build. Hoping it goes the same way for us...Whereabouts are you building? Western Sydney.. Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 14100Nov 07, 2016 11:43 am Hey all, we have just accepted the consolidated tender but have just realised a couple of things. We wanted to add a gass outlet to the alfresco for the BBQ and apparently you need to do something to the HT wall so it is strong enough to have a TV hung on it. Do we do this at the plan or colour selections appt? Or have we missed the mark and will have to pay the $1000 to change Hi AKG, We had a base tender of $592 for 31 squares from MC Donald Jones. It looks relatively cheaper than other builders. But I assume there are many hidden things that… 1 17381 Hi, Apologies - I know there is plenty out there on this but struggling to put together the puzzle. We're planning our garage/external laundry to master bedroom and… 0 12384 Hi there! Putting the feelers out there for those who have (or almost) built with Arli homes! Interested in your experiences who've built from their stock home designs… 0 26526 |