Fairmont Grand Design - Northern Adelaide

vladmari · Oct 29, 2020 10:26 am

Hello everyone. We are planning to build our home with Fairmont - Grand Design - which we absolutely loved when looked on display in Two Wells. The only design we would not need to modify almost at all internally. The only things we are planning to add are the third garage (as oppose to the big shed at the back), my partner is very keen on a bay window to master bedroom and extend alfresco to cover the whole area between the garage wall to the end of the house.

So we are at the stage when we have the design but don't have land

now our biggest challenge is to find suitable block with at least 22 meters frontage (preferably 24), minimal slope if none at all and in Gawler area (we are happy to look between Angle Vale and Greenock but along the Northern Expressway), and reasonable cost as well

. We have registered our interest with Hillsview Green estate but there is no information about any large blocks available just yet.

This will be my second built but my partners first. I have built about 7 years ago with Statesman and overall was very happy with everything and still happy with my house, over 6 years since we got our keys on 1 August 2014 and no problems with structure, any fittings or anything else.

Any recommendations what to look for with Fairmont?

Any comments on the plan are most welcome.
It is the standard plan, on display there were more options included which we will add as well.

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Manny Calavera · Nov 04, 2020 6:43 am

We are having a very similar house built in Waselys on one of the 4000m2 blocks. We used the Grand design and modified it a little to suit our budget, Shrunk it down to 205m2 internal. Like you this is the only design we came across that that didn't require massive internal changes.

Any idea what the third garage would cost?

vladmari · Nov 04, 2020 10:54 am

Manny Calavera

We are having a very similar house built in Waselys on one of the 4000m2 blocks. We used the Grand design and modified it a little to suit our budget, Shrunk it down to 205m2 internal. Like you this is the only design we came across that that didn't require massive internal changes.

Any idea what the third garage would cost?

Third single garage cost around $5,000 but we still waiting for a quote from the sales person.

Manny Calavera, I wish we can buy such a big block of land. We are looking everywhere at the moment but all blocks are too small for what we want. I found 1 ha block in Lewiston but my partner is reluctant to get that much land as it needs a lot of work to maintain it.

vladmari · Apr 27, 2021 12:50 pm

A bit of an update. We found the block we liked, put an offer in and has been accepted. The land development under the process at the moment so no Titles are ready yet and probably won't for another 6 months or so which is fine with us. The block is 1600 sq m in size with 28 m frontage, what we wanted in every way.

So while we are waiting on the land Title, we can start talking to the builder, get quotes and get everything ready for the build.

vladmari · May 03, 2021 2:43 pm

Went to see the builder last Saturday, visited the display house again, but looked at the house in more detail now. Did a few changes to the plan at our appointment and waiting for the costing quote now. We did not realise that the base price for the houses went up by $3,000 since October last year. The sales person in the display we visited told us there will be another increase by at least $10,000 by the end of the year so we want to lock in the price as soon as possible.

We already started to look at the selections as it will be a bit of a process :-)

my first house I built by myself so it was pretty easy, I liked it, I chose it :lol:

now we are doing it with my partner so lots of discussions about everything to make sure we both like what we are getting.

vladmari · May 17, 2021 5:29 pm

I short update. Last Wednesday we have signed the contract on the land and also signed Preliminary contract with the builder. Did go to Austral Brick Center and PGH Center on weekend and I would say we pretty much set on the brick now. We want to see how it is going to look with the roof colour we are thinking about as well.

So far the choice is between Austral Discover brick with Monument roof and windows, light coloured (probably Surfmist) garage doors and entry door and darker gutters and PGH Mistique brick with white mortar and the same for other elements as the first choice.

Work in progress :-)

LauraT2021 · Jun 05, 2021 1:13 pm

vladmari

I short update. Last Wednesday we have signed the contract on the land and also signed Preliminary contract with the builder. Did go to Austral Brick Center and PGH Center on weekend and I would say we pretty much set on the brick now. We want to see how it is going to look with the roof colour we are thinking about as well.

So far the choice is between Austral Discover brick with Monument roof and windows, light coloured (probably Surfmist) garage doors and entry door and darker gutters and PGH Mistique brick with white mortar and the same for other elements as the first choice.

Work in progress :-)

Hello! My partner and I are looking to potentially build the grand design with Fairmont this year as well. Just wondering if you would mind sharing the total cost of the build and whether you did any upgrades etc.? I always want to know how much the display version costs but they never seem too willing to give that information up!

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

vladmari · Aug 04, 2021 1:01 pm

LauraT2021,

we have got the pricing for the display house in Two Wells. It was around $270,000 mark from memory.

We did do some modifications to the plan adding third garage and making all three bigger (10 meters wide all three), we added butler's pantry on the side of the kitchen between the garage and alfresco (which we have extended as well), increased size of the garage doors. Also increased the ceiling heights to 2.7 meters. Few other minor bits and pieces.

All up our price is $305,000 without driveway, air conditioning, solar or fencing.

vladmari · Aug 04, 2021 1:04 pm

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this is our preliminary plan