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My DW and I started out looking for an established home around the Narellan area (NSW) mid last year and as we looked we were raising our price to find something that we liked. We look at a few near new homes but at the asking price though we could just build our own.
Most land in new housing estates were about 30 metre's deep so would leave us with a smaller house than we wanted or small backyard. Then by chance after putting an offer on a place (that was rejected) we were out at Oran Park dreaming about a new house checked out the land sales office and noticed that a 18 x 32 block from the release 2 weeks prior was still available. After researching the block and contract the only issue was 2 doors down the neighbour has a large Electricity box in their land. This caused no issues to the block we liked and we currently live a similar distance from one of these boxes so deposited on the land.
Moved to the Builder selection stage and last month and after about 3-4 weeks of tender changes and negotiation signed up with Allworth Homes to build a version of their Langford Design with modification to the Master Ensuite and WIR to make each larger and add depth to the garage. (Plans to be posted once they come back)
For the past 4 weeks we have been on a brick hunt, we started by choosing bricks via the websites of PGH / Austral / Boral but on visiting all the brickyards and reading some posts here found they were all bricks that were coated and could have issues durring the build or down the track with chipping. Lucky we had some full colour bricks we liked.
This weekend we had the selections down to PGH Gravel & Mocha (almost the same colour) and Austal Earth & Topaz, after some house stalking we have selected the Mocha. We went past the display homes as well and our builder has put a new render on one of the homes that we really like so they are getting back to us with the colours today.
Below are a few pics, the bricks, render and a pic of a house that was constructed with the Mocha brick:
Brick pic from PGH site
Render
Finished Mocha House
Now we just need to decided on:
Racked or Flush morter
Roof tile - Monier Horizon (http://www.monier.com.au/Tiles/Show_5.aspx)
Gutterring
Fascia
Garage Door
Window Frames
Front Door
Any suggestions on colours that would look good would be a great help