Porter Davis homes

If it helps, here are the results of my decisions...

Back roll where possible (it sits closer to the glass this way)
Light sunscreen blinds in the window frames (we chose a light colour, now the light coming in looks literally golden, very nice effect)
Dark blockout blinds over the top with a pelmet (nice contrast, and they match our feature wall colour)
I added 200mm to the width of anything that mounted over the frames (looks nicer this way plus it blocks out more light)
Spring assists on the large ones (most of them actually)
Sliding doors are getting sunscreen blinds over the top of the frame, no blockout
Installed ourselves (not too bad, but best if you have a second person to assist)

Who are you going with for them?

Mumma, we're going for the look you described. 3a blinds have a really nice range of fabrics, we're having Berkeley in Snow, so all white with some double rollers and some light filtering with covered pelmets. If you go in to look at fabrics, take the paint chips and laminex samples etc.

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Fingers crossed that it gets a move on for you Skye02. We had a new SS last week. I suspect the last one was working out his notice period and could not have cared less. At least the new SS has contacted me although he is now on holidays for 2 weeks. I can understand how you feel.
Good luck for bricks this week, although that dreaded excuse weather might actually be real this time.

Skye - hopefully things start picking up at great pace now. Even though your SS is away, hopefully the fill in one gets things moving.

Our PCI is now on for this Thursday. Yippee. Had our Independent Inspection yesterday.

Hi mummaDJ hope you PCI went well. You must be so excited I have just started looking for blinds and fencing and few things list of things to do doesn't seem to end

No it's matched to the window frame. top of the window frame there s an additional aluminum piece in the long window. I guess it's not that noticeable now.

We had no bricking Thursday, To Tuesday probably because of the weather but they were back bricking today. On the plus side, the electrical wiring was put in Monday Tuesday this week and the plaster has arrived as well. It's certainly moving quite quickly. It's really hard to decide when to put our house on the market, our contract date is April 2 but I really can't see them taking another 6 months to finish it. But I don't want to pay two mortgages for longer than we have to.

Fingers crossed that they keep doing things inside for us too while the bricking is happening because it does seem to be taking a long time to brick!

Will try to get photos tomorrow. I am dying to see the front bricked!

Hi Mirz
Eaves are an upgrade. You might see some facades have eaves, that is included. Eaves are definitely value for money as over time they help with shading on the windows and protection from rain etc.
Our upgrade cost was:
450mm eaves to ground floor house and garage - $1270
450mm eaves to the upper floor - $1862

We were quoted $2k for eaves on a 29 square lifestyle house. We were going to go with eaves but I didn't like the look of not having brickwork over the windows as the windows sit up right underneath the eaves.

We have eaves on the front as part of our facade and considering on one side of the house we will be building a deck and we have an alfresco out the back (which will be connected to the deck), we didn't see the point in paying $2k essentially for eaves which would be useful on one side of the house.

This was the only decision that I had trouble making and right now I am second guessing myself!