Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Oct 28, 2009 12:34 pm Our house will be Built in Vertu estate in Harrisdale next year (titles are Due in early 2010). Don Russell is our builder, and our home is a modified version of "the Genesis".
http://www.donrussellhomes.com.au/prope ... pid=181115 House Plan Selections Would love to hear people's insight into the house, thoughts, suggestions etc. etc. We will be getting granite benchtops in the Kitchen, still undecided on which type. laminex benchtops in bathrooms and laundry. Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 2Oct 28, 2009 12:45 pm holley molley you have a huge house.. how many square meters is it? the design looks really cool! Im also in Harrisdale but in arion estate I think MrsBecks is in Vertu Estate Harrisdale backyard finally done! Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 3Oct 28, 2009 12:58 pm It's not all that big, the house itself is 220m^2. 280m^2 including garage, alfresco and porch. We've pretty much used as much of our land as we are allowed to though, so very little room left elsewhere... There seems to be a fair few people in harrisdale that are building Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 4Oct 28, 2009 1:15 pm deeps There seems to be a fair few people in harrisdale that are building I like your selections, the 'Burnished Wood' comes up a treat on cupboard doors. Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 5Oct 28, 2009 1:31 pm 16.SFC deeps There seems to be a fair few people in harrisdale that are building I like your selections, the 'Burnished Wood' comes up a treat on cupboard doors. That's a nice looking plan there deeps. +1 - I'm in Harrisdale too and even closer to you miss_petepie! I'm also in Arion Having some front door issues with my build though - very depressing. Hope everyone else is getting a good build though! Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 6Oct 28, 2009 1:37 pm ah huh! we are slowly dominating :p what street are you both building on? Harrisdale backyard finally done! Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 9Oct 28, 2009 11:45 pm There is an ad or two on that site, but you can still get the PDF's.. I will try find somewhere else to host PDF documents. Seems the board can't take them Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 10Oct 28, 2009 11:49 pm I've updated the links to Rapidshare links, so should be better Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 11Oct 28, 2009 11:51 pm I dunno, I clicked on it on that site but not sure if it was blocked or why I couldn't see it... then an ad got thru my pop-up blocker Can you change the file to a jpg. ? Built with New Generation (Summit Homes) We own land!... with a slab on it! Plus a shell of a house with stuff inside ! Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 12Oct 28, 2009 11:53 pm I've changed the hosting. Should be easy now.. Sorry about that There's too many pages to be a jpeg unfortunately Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 13Oct 29, 2009 8:58 am wow you have a massive kitchen love the colour selections also Harrisdale backyard finally done! Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 14Oct 29, 2009 1:13 pm miss_petepie wow you have a massive kitchen love the colour selections also Thanks. We spent so much time on our selections so we're really anxious to see what they end up looking like! We're a little concerned that the Kitchen may look too dark. We are getting black floor tiles, black splashback and burnished wood cupboards... But our benchtops themselves will be white/light gray... hopefully it won't be too bad! Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 15Nov 23, 2009 1:20 pm Hi deeps! Not sure how I missed your thread but I can see we're going to be neighbours! (Almost literally!) We're building on Solander Street, just one road away from you! Your house plan looks great! LOVE the kitchen/living area, it'll be really nice opening up onto your alfresco there. Have your titles been released yet? We've just signed all our final, final house plans and land should be settled properly this week. Fingers crossed. So we're hoping for a slab down in Jan. (Darn bank slowed everything up so I think we've missed the pre-Christmas slab party we were hoping to have... oh well.) McBecks "Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right." Building With New Generation Homes The Domain Vertu Estate, Harrisdale viewtopic.php?f=31&t=24884 - My building thread Roof is on! Plastering has commenced... Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 16Nov 23, 2009 7:06 pm Our titles are expected early next year as far as I know. We are still waiting on a few minor details from the builder before we sign the final papers. Something to do with the supports for the cafe bar not being right, so they are adding cupboards to give more support. Not sure exactly what's going to happen as yet, hopefully very soon (sometime this week?) Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 17Dec 31, 2009 3:55 pm Hi Just to let you know that we are also building the Genesis, l have included a bar into my design and l am keeping all the colours that were used in the display home...dont have a great imagination l am afraid....would like to hear what colours that u have gone with, might be intresting! Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 18Jan 25, 2010 4:04 pm Lilian1977 Hi Just to let you know that we are also building the Genesis, l have included a bar into my design and l am keeping all the colours that were used in the display home...dont have a great imagination l am afraid....would like to hear what colours that u have gone with, might be intresting! For the external walls, we went with exactly as Displayed Don Russell have recently updated their site, and the Genesis is now on their site! http://www.donrussellhomes.com.au/prope ... pid=181115 Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 19Sep 21, 2010 1:38 am And here are some pics: http://picasaweb.google.com/deepside7/House It's actually had alot of work done over the past few weeks which I haven't taken photos of, but will do soon. So far, everythings gone smoothly. Tomorrow morning, our stonemason is meeting the SS to get the template etc. Re: The Genesis - Don Russell Homes - Harrisdale WA 20Sep 22, 2010 9:22 pm nice plan deeps. lots of storage is always great. do you have kids to fill the house or forward planning. im also near harrisdale. im in piara waters in the stocklands new haven estate. cant wait to be living there!! looking forward to more pics When times get tough build a house...Our second build We hired Darbecca to do every stage inspection, and I strongly recommend them to anyone that asks me. They were amazing. Thorough reports with photos at every stage,… 6 7128 i would not be signing anything on the day read your contract about when builder submits final invoice generally, have to meet builder within 7 days of receiving final… 1 4744 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 74701 |