Hi Building Perth
Your colour selections look great. What colours are you doing for the outside? As per the display? Its a very nice home you have picked. I love the triple garage.
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Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 41Jun 17, 2010 1:42 am Hi Building Perth
Your colour selections look great. What colours are you doing for the outside? As per the display? Its a very nice home you have picked. I love the triple garage. See you around Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 42Jun 17, 2010 6:31 pm we've chosen the flute tiles in our kitchen! i had a squiz at the bricking for our four metre kitchen bench the other day, I'm looking forward to it our front render colours will be silver hawk and flintstone, maybe with a touch of elephant oh, and anotec dark grey window frames and touches! the bricks on the sides of the house are Tuscan i think our houses will match pretty well Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 43Jun 17, 2010 6:36 pm BuildlingPerth Brooklet, Where abouts are you to be in our shadow? Don't tell me we've found a neighbour! Excellent news if if you are! I'm right next door lot 439! Feel free to wander thru our house skeleton on your block visits Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 44Jun 17, 2010 6:46 pm Brooklet, Will def take a look some time! Been scoping out the overhead views on nearmap.com I'd figured that you were our neighbours about 5 mins after the post. Its excellent catching up with people here before we move in! Will be good to have a bit of a street BBQ or something! Luke81, Yeah our colours at this point will be the same as the display. Surfmist for the roof and windows. Cant remember the exact colour names for the external paint. We have deleted the granite/slate/rock facia part though. The blackbutt is very nice. Cheaper than what I expected as well $150 sqm Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 45Jun 17, 2010 6:53 pm oh, and I forgot to mention the aniseed roof We'd sat down with an interior designer and picked all the colours based on the concrete tile colours(didn't think we could afford to upgrade to clay), and when we found out at prestart the upgrade was only $500 we had to tweak all of our colours to suit the roof. it's going to be interesting to see if it looks like a trainwreck or not... Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 46Jun 18, 2010 8:34 am Ahhh, the joys. Colour choice is not my forte... I know what looks good when its in front of me but making choices with tiny laminex chips.... def an unpredictable result.... We love the house as it was displayed so thats why we are going basically with what they had... I take it you're getting the tiling done as part of the house build, which will be nice, best to cover the concrete! I wanted tiling throughout for the durability but Jess (wife) won out so we got the Blackbutt Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 47Jun 18, 2010 10:27 am Ergh, our floors are gonna be very low tech at this stage, we couldn't afford to add floor tiles (except for the standard bathroom and toilet coverage) to the mortgage. some wood-look vinyl throughout the high traffic areas and kitchen, with brown carpet in the rest (I think the colour's called Tiananmen or Portabello, #86 methinks). It's gonna be interesting! Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 50Jun 18, 2010 12:24 pm Hi Brooklet The woodgrain look vinyl looks much better than vinyl from years ago. I put a light color wide plank woodgrain colour vinyl down in another property we owned with a beige / latte coloured sisal carpet and it looked fantastic. Just make sure the printed planks are long not short little planks. If layed properly and the slab underneath is in good condition it will look great. Throw a nice shaggy rug down and it will look a treat. After a few years you can always rip it up and lay a timber floor or tiles. Spend your money on more important structural things that you can't change later. It will look great and is functional and much better than living on concrete. Cheers Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 52Jun 18, 2010 1:07 pm Hi Does anyone know how much exposed aggregate is? We wanted to match our driveway to the footpath path out the front of the house. Does anyone know what company did the paths out the front of our blocks? I think by having the driveway match it will look nice. Does anyone have any ideas what they plan on doing for their gardens? Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 53Jun 18, 2010 2:37 pm luke81 Hi Does anyone know how much exposed aggregate is? We wanted to match our driveway to the footpath path out the front of the house. Does anyone know what company did the paths out the front of our blocks? I think by having the driveway match it will look nice. Does anyone have any ideas what they plan on doing for their gardens? We were thinking the same thing! We've been trying to get a quote from various companies... basically it turns out that the rough price is $100sqm. Thats 100mm thick with steel reinforcement in it. Just spoke to Terranovis.... the project manager flew out to the Eastern states this morning... Di the receptionist asked around the office and believes it was Cockburn Council... but also stated that the covenants state paved driveways only (apparently)... she suggested i call Kaylene (Sales Rep) for confirmation. She stated that this is correct (re covenants) but approval can be sought through the Project Manager of Terranovis for liquid limestone/ exposed aggregate. I'll fire off an email and let you know the outcome! To quote the covenant Quote: Any dwelling house without, at the same time providing an enclosed garage for not less than two motor vehicles, parked side by side, which: (i) Includes a garage door sufficient to completely screen the interior of the garage from the street; (ii) Is built under the main roof of the dwelling, or constructed in a manner that matches the dwelling house in respect of the design, materials used, roof pitch and external appearance, including colour and quality of appearance; (iii) Includes a driveway and cross-over constructed of brick paving and extending to the road kerb in the same material; ; Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 54Jun 18, 2010 6:18 pm Hi Building Perth We are building in stage 8 (belmore bend) and there are a number of houses on our street that have recently had exposed aggregate poured as their driveways so i think you guys should be alright with using it. Im a big fan of it will probably use it in the backyard instead of paving but had to leave the driveway paved due to the budget. Cheers Fi Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 55Jun 18, 2010 6:21 pm From the sound of the sales lady (I don't know where Matt has gone too) I think you are right. Seemed like a case of procedure rather than an issue. The funny thing is that the restrictive convenants expire on the 31st Dec 2010... which will be before we are completed..... If anyone wants the project managers email... pm me... I'm suer he wouldn't want it posted! Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 56Jun 20, 2010 2:57 am Hi Thanks BuildingPerth. Hopefully we can have aggregate as I think it will flow nicely from the footpath. I like that you dont get weeds coming through. If its only $100sqm thats roughly $4,500 for the driveway, crossover and portico which is pretty good considering we have an allowance of $3,000 just for our crossover in brickpaving. I think I will get the alfresco and the paths done in this too. Need to talk the builder. We have liquid limestone at our current house and it has cracked badly and stains so easily. Also it was never sealed properly out the back and it goes green over winter. The only way to clean it to pressure wash it all the time. Looks great when clean however I will not get it again. Cheers Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 57Jun 20, 2010 1:25 pm Holy moley! $3000 wow thats alot! Yeah we were thinking much the same... LL is ok but usually isn't not reinforced and the lightness in the colour shows stains so much. We're expecting a total price of somewhere in the vicinity of $4500 as well for the Exposed aggregate.. well worth it in my books. Will be interesting what sort of credit we'll get back from Summit... Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 58Jun 21, 2010 11:00 am We are thinking of doing the same Building Perth! It will be interesting to see what credit Summit give and if it is worth removing the paving. We went looking for pavers on the weekend and couldn't find any we liked. The exposed agg wall had like this glowing halo around it! ha ha Re: Summit Xanthus - Aubin Gardens 59Jun 21, 2010 2:53 pm Hi Holy Moley exactly. 3 grand for a tiny amount of brickpaving. I know I choked when I saw that too! I do not think the brickpaving will look right as you will have brickpaving and then aggregate path and then brickpaving again on the driveway. I hope the credit we get back plus the 3 grand will be enough to cover the cost of the aggregate that we need (or at least come close). Fingers crossed. Cheers |