Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Oct 05, 2010 4:10 pm No planter box because the estate restrictions state we must have an entry porch a certain size, so garage door was moved to the other side and a few bits and pieces had to be moved around, thus loosing our planter box, which is a pity because I thought it added a bit of 'oomph' to an otherwise fairly boring front!! The road to success is always under construction House completed April 2011 - slowly making it a home... Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 2Oct 05, 2010 4:23 pm it does, I agree. can you have a smaller one? even greece have small planter boxes, with geraniums in....they look so cute. I guess if you were building in greece, everyone would covet your LARGE planter.. so everyone has to have huge big entries then? with double doors? so they all look the same? are you building in oz, or on the truman set...ha ha crazy talk. are there lots of covenants, or really just this one. will you lose your storage area in your garage then? shame, cos that is a great use of space...all those bikes and boogie boards etc. lovely plan though, and I am sure it will be stunning once finished. Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 4Oct 06, 2010 8:33 am well the colours...mmm, considering they are VERY similar to mine, I LOVE THEM! if I didnt, I guess I should change mine. I wanted horizon tiles, but too $$$$ so have picked villa tiles over hacienda, as we had them on our old house and everyone has them here so will pick something that no one has...(cos they are probably crap and that is the reason!) I am getting hapuka (dark grey) for the roof, manorstone firth bricks http://www.firth.co.nz/product-informat ... stone.aspx and titania joinery, door and garage..which is similar to surfmist I think, well it looks like your garage door colour anyway! http://nzexplorer.co.nz/colour_swatch_l ... _basic.php it is on the 3rd row burnished wood on the kitchen bench (100mm high) and light cream drawers etc so I am liking what you have picked...your plan is great, that door is not that big. it will look really nice finished. Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 5Oct 13, 2010 12:40 pm Just the update for Zarli. You have the slab And a bit of landscaping too Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ contract 10/11 prestart 04/10 slab 06/10 bricks 07/10 roof 09/10 plaster 10/10 Ceiling 10/10 LOCKUP 10/10 tiling wet areas 11/10 garage floor 11/10 PCI 12.01.11 handover 11.02.11 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=39361&hilit=malvern+springs We are in !!! Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 6Oct 13, 2010 9:13 pm THANK YOU SOO MUCH FOR CHECKING THAT OUT, and OMG we have a slab! So excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its all GO from this point on, right?!!?!? Can't wait to tell my DP! He will be stoked. I can't thank you enough, but gosh it looks tiny doesn't it?! The road to success is always under construction House completed April 2011 - slowly making it a home... Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 7Oct 13, 2010 9:18 pm And hasn't the area changed sooo much since the time I saw the block, no other houses around it before! The road to success is always under construction House completed April 2011 - slowly making it a home... Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 8Oct 13, 2010 9:39 pm Hey Zarli My slab look tinnnnnyyy when it was poured, you'll be swinning in your house when the white set is done The building restrictions SUCK, as a result i have the ugliest verandah on my house and had to spend so much extra to meet the enviro requirements... LWP have no idea tho, all driveways should be in grey tones in MS but most in my street are brown and cream?! always the way! Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 10Oct 14, 2010 12:36 pm No problem at all Zarli My shop is only about 1 km from your site. Don't worry about the slab - when I looked at mine I run home to check the plans as I felt I'm missing half of my house. After they put the roof I was even more horrified as I had a feeling I won't even fit dining table in my living. Then white plaster came and we said WOW that is big house. It looks funny in different stages. I will let you know when you get bricks. Pm me your email so I can email you pics in the future as my photobucket getting clogged. As to the restrictions - I love the idea that there will be no ugly houses around but I don't understand why some people getting away with breaking them. My street is not allowed to have tiles on the roof - says clearly - colorbond only!! two houses away someone just put the tiles on the roof and the most disgusting color - poo brown. I don't want to look at that - that street was supposed to be in grey only contract 10/11 prestart 04/10 slab 06/10 bricks 07/10 roof 09/10 plaster 10/10 Ceiling 10/10 LOCKUP 10/10 tiling wet areas 11/10 garage floor 11/10 PCI 12.01.11 handover 11.02.11 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=39361&hilit=malvern+springs We are in !!! Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 11Oct 15, 2010 2:59 pm Haha yeah the trend for earthy tones in my street are purple and blue.. I had a thread but didn't really update it.. I'm building with Aveling homes - the below link is the plan but mine is modified to the max (close to 40k in mods and upgrades, ugh ). http://avelinghomes.com.au/floor-plans/traditional-floorplans/odyssey/ I turned it into a 3 bedroom home, (BM3 on the plan was removed), then extended the size of BM2 & 4, added in a wall of storage to the laundry and made a huge 2nd bathroom (it currently sits where BM3 was). I'm use to space and hate cramped up small rooms etc. I've kept fairly nuetral internal colours - the bathrooms and laundry have white tiles throughout with a grey toned glass feature, whiteish benchtops and grey cupboards. The kitchen is white cupboards with a brownish feature on the underbench cupboards where the oven is, with white benches. Eternal is a surfmist roof, cull grey render at the front with white garage door, front door and window frames - my brick is midland limestone hue.. I'll be painting internally in solver cape horn which is white with a grey tone instead of beige and my flooring is a dark toned engineered board throughout. The flooring is a HUGE feature so keeping the walls pretty plain. Should have the keys in two weeks, just waiting on a new front door frame and door to be installed. Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 12Oct 15, 2010 4:39 pm Slabs are deceiving - only thing you can tell now is the size of your backyard! Your house doesnt look like it will be small at all. When we were drafting up ours we constantly compared and got out the tape measure in our little house we have now - always ended up saying 'Yep thats heaps big enough'. Dont understand why they give us covenants and then dont really make people follow them. We have followed ours to the T. We are a "Landmark" homesite, so there was limited Colorbond colours(and only Colorbond allowed), a front fascade highlight material as well as render, a roof gable or portico required. Spent a lot on it. And somebody has gone and put cream pavers down when they are meant to be grey tones. And the neighbour has Ironstone paint colour on front - thats not earthy. Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 13Oct 15, 2010 4:50 pm I agree - it's annoying - I actually plan to call LWP and ask them what the hell contract 10/11 prestart 04/10 slab 06/10 bricks 07/10 roof 09/10 plaster 10/10 Ceiling 10/10 LOCKUP 10/10 tiling wet areas 11/10 garage floor 11/10 PCI 12.01.11 handover 11.02.11 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=39361&hilit=malvern+springs We are in !!! Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 14Oct 15, 2010 5:00 pm I just got off the phone with LWP - they say they have no idea why people did something different then covenants say. They promised to drive past and get back to me. I spend almost $ 3000 to get the stupid portico which was supposed to be 1.5m deep and min 2.5m wide and the people next door have something which is wide as the door and 1.5m deep. Now the builder tells me I have to spend more money on some stupid eves ventilation -covenants again - and I'm going to fight it. contract 10/11 prestart 04/10 slab 06/10 bricks 07/10 roof 09/10 plaster 10/10 Ceiling 10/10 LOCKUP 10/10 tiling wet areas 11/10 garage floor 11/10 PCI 12.01.11 handover 11.02.11 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=39361&hilit=malvern+springs We are in !!! Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 15Oct 15, 2010 10:58 pm re: the eave ventilation - surely if your pad has gone down you must already have approval from LWP as is - there should be no need to add anything extra, even if they are in a convenant as it's approved by LWP! I managed to get them to put the whirly bird (asif i was paying their prices) and rain water tank on the plans as owner to do after handover and LWP were happy with that. I just had the separate plumbing done for the grey water.. Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 17Oct 16, 2010 11:22 am Congrats on the slab, seems to be a few of us, having slabs down at the same stage! ---- Building in Banksia Grove We have keys - 31st March 2011 Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 18Oct 16, 2010 12:21 pm Yay another commodore homes person! Look forward to watching your build Re: Commodore Homes, Infiniti 6.0 - Ellenbrook 19Oct 16, 2010 12:57 pm welcome back Zarli I'm building with SPH. Those eves ventilation is part of some mambo jumbo relating to 15 points in the contract re Energy Efficient Suburb. There is a list of choices but you have to meet 15 points of your choice - builder saying that I'm short but I just don't have any more money. I have a computer shop in Ellenbrook on The Broadway so just down the road from your block. Why you moving so much? Will let you guys know on the outcome with LWP (if they call back) contract 10/11 prestart 04/10 slab 06/10 bricks 07/10 roof 09/10 plaster 10/10 Ceiling 10/10 LOCKUP 10/10 tiling wet areas 11/10 garage floor 11/10 PCI 12.01.11 handover 11.02.11 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=39361&hilit=malvern+springs We are in !!! 6 11470 Thank you so much for the effort. We will use it to talk with builder. We also had idea of building duplex instead and seeking suggest ions. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=106744 11 13777 Hi VK, I am now retired however I have stood beside over 300 owner builders in the past 18 years that have successfully built their own homes. First of all a building… 10 22561 |