Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Oct 06, 2011 6:42 am Hi I thought its high time i stop highjacking other threads and start my own for my build i can be a bit lazy posting pics, but i eventually get around to it Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family Homes My Blog http://www.ourhouseinwallan.blogspot.com My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=51625&p=789135#p7891353 Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family 2Oct 06, 2011 6:45 am Woohoo!! Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Re: Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family 3Oct 06, 2011 8:17 am Yaaaaaaay!! Colours look awesome Shell! Sarah, Andy & Parker - Building Our First Home - Burbank Lamont 2600 Our Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=51696 Re: Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family 4Oct 06, 2011 8:39 am Thanks sar the only thing i am not sure on the kitchen sink hubby picked?? so i told him he is doing dishes LOL, that and the feature tile strip in the kitchen was his only input. we were going to do render as per whats on display, now we have decided we will leave it and later add stack stone.... now to find cheap supliers Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family Homes My Blog http://www.ourhouseinwallan.blogspot.com My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=51625&p=789135#p7891353 Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family 5Oct 07, 2011 6:41 am Oh I love the look of stacked stone but when we were quoted a price we decided on render in stead. A little disappointed because it looks beautiful but we always have the option of adding it down the track if we want. How did you feel after your colour selection? Did you find it fun or exhausting? Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Re: Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family 6Oct 07, 2011 7:22 pm yeah DFH were quoting over 5k just for the 2 what i call pillars on the facade but in the pic of the display home it is rendered, so yeah we are going to see what we can do later down the track i love the colour appointment, though its hard.... well for me anyway not too get to carried away we do the electrical with our sales guy, we are going to heaps of double p/points my non neg places where they MUST be installed Island bench - handy when making cocktails Outside in the alfresco we know DFH charge $60 each double point to be installed, we are going to stick to the standard batten lights but add heaps more in where we are going to add down lights + we are going to have provision (electrical stuff) to add ceiling fan in the alfresco as well as get the builders to do provision for air/con + like you Cat we are now thinking of speaker wire for outside + many more things but head hurts now too much after waaaayyyyy tooooo long day at work Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family Homes My Blog http://www.ourhouseinwallan.blogspot.com My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=51625&p=789135#p7891353 Re: Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family 7Nov 13, 2011 8:04 pm update update update well we were up at wallara waters today and we have has some progress, so much so we now have a dirt rd, and FINALLY for the 1st time we got to stand on our (the banks) land woohoo!!! now the builders are going to do the soil tests and then we can do contracts so then when land titles we can be all systems go go go Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family Homes My Blog http://www.ourhouseinwallan.blogspot.com My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=51625&p=789135#p7891353 Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family 8Nov 15, 2011 6:30 am Woohoo soil tests and contracts!!! Hehe When we signs our contract we were told that it really is best if we don't make any further changes or variations as this could increase the cost or delay our start date... Our builder then sent me a variation the next day and since then we have had 6!! Have fun at your contract signing. I hope your soil test is good and doesn't increase any of your site costs Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Re: Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family 9Nov 15, 2011 8:17 pm oh cat, i am finally starting to get really excited that it is now starting to feel more real Austaland have advised us that they are going to be working through xmas/new year to get stage 7 finished which is great news.... if they stick to there word that is Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family Homes My Blog http://www.ourhouseinwallan.blogspot.com My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=51625&p=789135#p7891353 Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family 10Nov 25, 2011 6:42 am So... I need updates!! When is your contract signing scheduled for? Has Australands given you a land title date yet? Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Re: Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family 11Jan 31, 2012 9:29 pm oooppps forgot i had a thread LOL updates we are now temp living in Wallara Waters while we wait for everything so kids could start school from the start of the year. we picked up our prelim DFH contracts on sunday and we are making some variations like we have now changed our bricks to be mocha by boral amongst a few smaller things. we were surprised that the slab cost for P class was about 2k cheaper than the H class we were originally quoted The land is fingers crossed about 2 weeks away from being titled - WOOHOO!!!!!! Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family Homes My Blog http://www.ourhouseinwallan.blogspot.com My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=51625&p=789135#p7891353 Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family 12Feb 13, 2012 1:26 pm Lol. Shell Fail :p I drove past your block on Saturday when we were there moving some bricks. It's all looking very good, the land on your side of the estate is so flat! Sent from my iPhone so please excuse my spelling mist cakes Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Re: Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family 13Jan 15, 2013 2:26 pm We drove past last Saturday to see how stage 9 is coming along, and it looked like you had a few visitors, cars in the front yard etc, so I'm guessing you are well and truly in now. Congratulations. Re: Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family 14Jan 15, 2013 6:24 pm LOL yes we are i have been very slack in updating this site... oh well it is sooooo exciting to be finally in. where abouts are you building? and have you joind the facebook group? Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family Homes My Blog http://www.ourhouseinwallan.blogspot.com My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=51625&p=789135#p7891353 Hi everyone, Newbie renovator here, after some advice for combining our family room in the picture and the alfresco and make a larger family room. There is a flush sill… 0 4896 go upvc window frames ensure insulation under colorbond. not just sarking, lighter color roof also not sure if you have seen this viewtopic.php?t=5823 last couple of pages… 4 110572 |