Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 41Aug 03, 2010 12:52 pm I totally agree with you.... I would've done the same as you...Let them find their own mistakes.... On a brigher note, I realli like how you flipped the laundry around to include the internal access door and having the study nook in the family area. I hope that they have sorted out the insulation issue now. Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 42Aug 06, 2010 10:27 pm Insulation has all been sorted out...we went to our site the other day and our kitchen bathrooms and laundry arrived....yay!!!we watched them unload all our cupboards into the house and watch them put it together...they did an awesome job and put so much effort into it....totally loving the colours...was so so hard to make anything out of those tiny little samples hopetoun give you....the custom overhead cupboards are great...can't wait for the tiles to go in..... will post photo's late tomorrow GOING SLIGHTLY MAD Glendale 28 Check out our BLOG - complete photos of all disasters and progress http://ourglendale28.blogspot.com/ Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 43Aug 07, 2010 6:42 pm so pleased with they way things turned out...photos are up!! GOING SLIGHTLY MAD Glendale 28 Check out our BLOG - complete photos of all disasters and progress http://ourglendale28.blogspot.com/ Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 45Aug 08, 2010 2:17 am KatieK wow...i love the colours on the cabinets especially the one for the ensuite. What colour is it? It must be great being able to see it all come together... we have chosen smokey sapelle for our ensuite, lustrous elm for our otehr bathroom, burnished limewood for our laundry and wenge for the kitchen cupboards and oriental block for the kitchen counter....the stone island bench is in sandy.... we are extremely happy with the craftmanship of the cabinets and cupboards....the guys that did them done an excellent job...especially with our overhead cupboaards...we absolutely love them....can't wait to see our tiles and carpet go in...thinking about it now we should have gotten wooden floors...although the selection of tiles are just as impressive....bring on the porcelain!!!! we don't expect everyone to be wooed by our choices....everyone has their own likes and dislikes.... have always loved dark colour schemes as we feel they make the house feel more luxurious, homely and cosy....of course it all depends on the colour and style of your furniture as well as making your feature walls fit into the look.... GOING SLIGHTLY MAD Glendale 28 Check out our BLOG - complete photos of all disasters and progress http://ourglendale28.blogspot.com/ Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 46Aug 08, 2010 11:00 am looking great prawncracker, we also have chosen dark colours. gives us a good idea of what ours will look like Building with Places Homes - Glendale 23 (plus 2 square bonus). Stage 1j, Somerfield Estate, Keysborough. Sweet! Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 47Aug 08, 2010 6:20 pm REfL3ct looking great prawncracker, we also have chosen dark colours. gives us a good idea of what ours will look like thanks!...we are really happy with our colour choices...were a bit worried when we walked away from hopetoun....doubted everything that we chose!!!before we walked through the hopetoun doors we had pre selected our colours...once we hit the desk and started choosing...we decided to go other ways....lol what were your colour choices? GOING SLIGHTLY MAD Glendale 28 Check out our BLOG - complete photos of all disasters and progress http://ourglendale28.blogspot.com/ Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 48Aug 09, 2010 9:01 am lol yeah i know what you mean. we kept changing our choices. like even the whole house including brick colours and render. we changed it all midway through. from nougat to brown etc. our cabinets in the kitchen is going to be licorice linea and our upper cupboards will be parchment white. ceaser stone on both island bench and back bench, forget the name of the colour.. i think ice or snow lol.. burnished wood on all vanities including the laundry. gonna put floorboards throughout the house. we did originally choose smokey sapelle for the kitchen but changed our minds midway through. i just liked licorice linea more for some reason! Building with Places Homes - Glendale 23 (plus 2 square bonus). Stage 1j, Somerfield Estate, Keysborough. Sweet! Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 49Aug 09, 2010 6:44 pm REfL3ct lol yeah i know what you mean. we kept changing our choices. like even the whole house including brick colours and render. we changed it all midway through. from nougat to brown etc. our cabinets in the kitchen is going to be licorice linea and our upper cupboards will be parchment white. ceaser stone on both island bench and back bench, forget the name of the colour.. i think ice or snow lol.. burnished wood on all vanities including the laundry. gonna put floorboards throughout the house. we did originally choose smokey sapelle for the kitchen but changed our minds midway through. i just liked licorice linea more for some reason! sounds good...we originally wanted diamond gloss but places couldnt do it...oh well.... 6 more weeks so i have been told... GOING SLIGHTLY MAD Glendale 28 Check out our BLOG - complete photos of all disasters and progress http://ourglendale28.blogspot.com/ Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 50Aug 11, 2010 10:15 pm painting started today...yay!!! inspection tomorrow for fixing stage....let's hope they straightened those skirtings GOING SLIGHTLY MAD Glendale 28 Check out our BLOG - complete photos of all disasters and progress http://ourglendale28.blogspot.com/ Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 51Aug 12, 2010 11:27 am good luck! so tell me. when you do your inspections with the SS, does it need to be during work hours? can it be after hours or a weekend? Building with Places Homes - Glendale 23 (plus 2 square bonus). Stage 1j, Somerfield Estate, Keysborough. Sweet! Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 53Aug 13, 2010 9:32 am REfL3ct good luck! so tell me. when you do your inspections with the SS, does it need to be during work hours? can it be after hours or a weekend? I am not too sure whether or not it has to be business hOurs. Iguess it is up to your SS as to whether or not he is goig to meet with u during the weekend GOING SLIGHTLY MAD Glendale 28 Check out our BLOG - complete photos of all disasters and progress http://ourglendale28.blogspot.com/ Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 54Aug 13, 2010 12:18 pm How excited to see all of us here are building with Placeshomes? We are building Drysdale 26. Thank you everyone for the information. Prawncraker: when you are onsite everyday, can you go in or have to stay outside to have a look? Building with Places Homes - Drysdale 26 Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 55Aug 13, 2010 1:48 pm prawncraker REfL3ct good luck! so tell me. when you do your inspections with the SS, does it need to be during work hours? can it be after hours or a weekend? I am not too sure whether or not it has to be business hOurs. Iguess it is up to your SS as to whether or not he is goig to meet with u during the weekend oh so when you said there was an "inspection tomorrow" is that done without you? who does that? Building with Places Homes - Glendale 23 (plus 2 square bonus). Stage 1j, Somerfield Estate, Keysborough. Sweet! Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 56Aug 13, 2010 8:05 pm clayton789 How excited to see all of us here are building with Placeshomes? We are building Drysdale 26. Thank you everyone for the information. Prawncraker: when you are onsite everyday, can you go in or have to stay outside to have a look? we're onsite everyday....if there are workers we pop in and have a look making sure that we stay out of their way GOING SLIGHTLY MAD Glendale 28 Check out our BLOG - complete photos of all disasters and progress http://ourglendale28.blogspot.com/ Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 57Aug 13, 2010 8:07 pm REfL3ct prawncraker REfL3ct good luck! so tell me. when you do your inspections with the SS, does it need to be during work hours? can it be after hours or a weekend? I am not too sure whether or not it has to be business hOurs. Iguess it is up to your SS as to whether or not he is goig to meet with u during the weekend oh so when you said there was an "inspection tomorrow" is that done without you? who does that? we had a site inspection with our SS during business hours....was early morning...we were there to make sure that we were happy with the fixing stage before releasing the money....we expressed to our SS that we prefer early morning as we still have to get to work afterwards....when we did the fixing stage the kitchen people were there so we watched them put our kitchen in GOING SLIGHTLY MAD Glendale 28 Check out our BLOG - complete photos of all disasters and progress http://ourglendale28.blogspot.com/ Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 58Aug 13, 2010 8:10 pm KatieK hehehe its good to know that changing colours midway is a normal thing. yeah we were worried about our choices because we had everything "sussed out" before we got to hopetoun...once we got there all our previous choices went out the window....lol were worried about our choices until we got our benchtops in....all doubt has gone now GOING SLIGHTLY MAD Glendale 28 Check out our BLOG - complete photos of all disasters and progress http://ourglendale28.blogspot.com/ Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 59Aug 13, 2010 8:14 pm paint has been splashed on the walls and it makes all our choices look even better....we are absolutely pleased with our colour choice....not too dark and not too light....makes the skirtings and architraves look really really white and our window frames and sliding door frames look dark....it really goes with our kitchen...so so pleased tiler comes in next week....along with the carpets....bathtub comes in early next week as well as all fixings and fittings can't wait....4 weeks will post photo's tomorrow GOING SLIGHTLY MAD Glendale 28 Check out our BLOG - complete photos of all disasters and progress http://ourglendale28.blogspot.com/ Re: Places Homes Glendale 28 60Aug 13, 2010 8:17 pm REfL3ct prawncraker REfL3ct good luck! so tell me. when you do your inspections with the SS, does it need to be during work hours? can it be after hours or a weekend? I am not too sure whether or not it has to be business hOurs. Iguess it is up to your SS as to whether or not he is goig to meet with u during the weekend oh so when you said there was an "inspection tomorrow" is that done without you? who does that? P.S....you are able to request a site inspection at the end of every stage....you should call your CSR rep to make an appointment with your SS to go through and show you the progress and tell you if each stage was passed off by the building inspectors....this is where you would take in your own independant inspector.... we make appointments all the time...every time progress is made i.e tiling, kitchens going in, insulation etc. GOING SLIGHTLY MAD Glendale 28 Check out our BLOG - complete photos of all disasters and progress http://ourglendale28.blogspot.com/ Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 74688 I would never build with Fowler homes. 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