Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building a new house with SIMONDS 3Feb 26, 2011 7:13 pm stamford sw vic i looove our simonds home!!! me too, i had issues but nothing that no other builder has, and they were straight onto it as soon as we told them Re: Building a new house with SIMONDS 4Feb 27, 2011 9:37 am Hello Miss Piggy and others. Further update. Simonds has been dealing with issues I have faced which I am happy about, but I have had to stay on top of things. Miss Piggy, thanks for the thread, great to see all your pics and what you have done. I am very impressed and like the finish product, great to see. I also built the same house as yours which I thought was quite funny. I did alot of changes to the design / plan, all at a cost of course as I did like the floor plan but tweeked it quite a bit. The study at the front I extended the wall further back into the lounge room and then enclosed the study to make another bedroom. The lounge room I removed the sliding door and moved the whole wall back and got rid of the alfresco area there so the wall is on the same elivation as the kitchen wall and had three long narrow window put in instead. I then had the lounge enclosed with a wall and door put in to make into a large study come spare room, tv room etc. In the master bedroom I deleted the alfresco area and had the wall put along the same elivation as the other rooms. I then made this area a big walk in robe area which is a walk through to the ensuite area now. The door to the master bedroom is now in the master bedroom not where you have it. I then extended the bathroom / ensuite area to the whole length of the current room to include your walk in robe area as well. Thus making the ensuite area nearly twice as big. In the kitchen area I removed the sliding door to the alfresco area as that is now an extention to the extra large lounge / study and the sliding door that was in the lounge I had put in where the window is in the kitchen. In the kitchen area I moved the fridge over to where the first wall cupboard is and extended the kitchen bench along the wall and put in 900 pot draws and extra overhead cupboards. The extra space left from the fridge now made room for an extra large pantry. The island bench I had ceasor stone bench tops and waterfall ends installed and did the reverse layout to yours where I also included an extra cupboard and extra wide draws. The entry to the theatre room I moved towards the wall elivation so its only about 1.5m from the wall and not so far in. The large window in the theatre room I replaced with 3 small square windows as on the opposite elivation in this room. The back three bedrooms I had the long skiny horizontal windows installed instead of the large windows. In the corner bedroom I made the built in robe the full length of the wall by changing the position of the toilet so its not around the corner when you go into the toilet area. In the laundry I had a broom cupboard installed as well. The garage I had extended to a third garage but instead of putting in another roller door I put in the same windows as the study so it appears to be another room and later down the track if needed I can put a wall in and make this into another room. I also put a rear entry roller door into the back yard and also a sliding door. The front door I made to be a wider door with no side window for security reasons. Now if you followed all of that you can tell I made heaps of changes. It cost too...lol but worth it and quite reasonable, sometimes cost negative or credit given. I used the Zinc brick from Austral with a white morta that was flushed. I have completed all the landscaping out front and have done the right side, rear with only a deck and pegola to go out by the kitchen area. If you like I will try and work out how to do this thread thing and upload some pics if you like to see the changes I did. hopefully you will like . Thanks once again for the visit, feedback and thread. Happy to offer advice or assistance to anyone building. Yes well there solution is to blame everyone else while I a 65yr old woman with major medical problems have to just continue to boil water and wash myself in a bucket… 2 16018 If you make sure all taps inside and out are turned off, what does the water meter show if you leave it for a while. 2 20235 13 6632 |