Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 21Aug 25, 2012 3:33 pm P1T Read about my building experience: http://secondhomebuild.blogspot.com Dale Alcock Homes - 'The Nautilus' in Bletchley Park, Southern River - WA Read about my Clipsal C-BUS Home Automation Project: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=20854 Re: Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 22Aug 27, 2012 11:20 pm Building the Nautilus with Dale Alcock follow my thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=58854&p=909574#p909574 14/8/12 Pre-start! Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 23Aug 27, 2012 11:27 pm Building the Riva by Dale Alcock Homes. Follow our progress here: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=57075 Re: Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 24Aug 28, 2012 11:28 pm Well, our broker finally got hold of the guy at Peet who has agreed a final, final 1 week extension in order to get the valuation done! Well done Aussie! ![]() Now we just have to hope the valuation comes back ok. I have been promising the pre-start update for a while so here goes! Pre-start An upfront confession... we were so chilled out about the whole colour selection thing we didn't take any photos of the mock ups! ![]() We headed to Dale Alcock Central for pre-start (having been there about 4 or 5 times already to make some of our choices ahead of the day (BIG RECOMMENDATION) ) and one of the nice touches about DAH is the little details like this ![]() Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We were met by our lovely pre-start lady and her colleague who was there to do our electrical plan with us. Now, bearing in mind OH and I had already spent hours on this and went as well prepared as we possibly could, this stage still took an hour and a half!! I had printed our floor plan and removed all the detail - we then 'placed' all our plugs, switches, lights, fans, TV points, Phone points, external plugs and sockets, alarm points, smoke alarms and so on - Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ we had to split lights and switches onto one plan Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ and everything else on another! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We are lucky enough to have an electrician friend who will do all our lighting after handover. The exceptions to this are the lights in the raking ceiling (both dining and alfresco) and the external lights some of which were included and the others we are getting DAH to do as we don't want the render damanged! After doing the electrical plan we filled in our lunch menu selection form ![]() Some people call me organised, most just think I have OCD tendencies (or CDO if you are going to put the letters in the right order ![]() We had looked at google images, builders websites, the H1 forum, been to display home after display home and even bought magazines - we still just couldn't work out what colours we wanted! This is where the pre-start team are worth their weight in gold. It's their job. It's what they do. If they made awful recommenations they wouldn't last in their jobs very long... They also are very capable at 'guiding' you away from bad decisions!! We did our exterior colours first and then did our bathrooms. We started with tiles and were asked to go through and pick out feature tiles we liked. Whilst we did that, our pre-start lady followed us picking out floor tiles which would work with the feature tiles (we had already agreed on white gloss tiles for the shower walls / behind the bath) and then we just had to make a choice! I'm still not 100% sure about our selections but I have real problems visualising the big picture from a small sample. OH is happy though and say he thinks it will all look great. This is our garage door Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ External colours: Colourbond roof, gutters, fascia and downpipes - Surfmist Blade wall - Caribou Render to the rest of the front, sides and back - Solver White Cliffs 300% Window frames - Storm front (We copied the Archer colours mostly as we have the Archer elevation on our Nautilus build) Interior colours: Bathroom. Wall tiles 200 x 400 white gloss, Border tile Lava Silk Chocolate Glass mosaic. Floor tile 300 x 300 Vision Bongo Graphite. Snow ceaserstone bench with 180mm fascia. Pearl grey Laminex cupboards. En-Suite. Wall tiles 200 x 400 white gloss, Border tile Vision Silver Glass. Floor tile 300 x 300 Vision Bongo Graphite. Urban ceaserstone bench with 180mm fascia. Pearl grey Laminex cupboards. Kitchen & Scullery. White Shimmer ceaserstone bench with 86mm fascia. White silk finish laminex cupboards, Laundry & Powder room. Floor tile 300 x 300 Vision Bongo Graphite. Pure Calcite Laminex bench with Alaska cupboards. Internal painting - Scribbly Gum (light grey) to bedrooms, bathroom, en-suite, powder and laundry. - Caribou in the theatre - Colourbond dune in the kitchen, dining, living, hallways. I PROMISE to post pics as soon as we get our colour board!! Love our showerheads Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Looking at Bamboo flooring Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The colour selection was so much easier than I expected it to be! I just stood away from the hundreds of laminex / formica colour cards and let our pre-start lady bring suggestions to us! Once I have seen the colour board I will know if we have done the right thing. My alternative is a black and white theme throughout as there are some gorgeous H1 threads out there at the moment posting pics which make me jealous!! ![]() ![]() We were all done by 2pm so then had a child free potter round Osborne park which was an added bonus!! ![]() Building the Nautilus with Dale Alcock follow my thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=58854&p=909574#p909574 14/8/12 Pre-start! Re: Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 26Aug 28, 2012 11:58 pm ![]() Building the Nautilus with Dale Alcock follow my thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=58854&p=909574#p909574 14/8/12 Pre-start! Re: Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 27Aug 29, 2012 12:08 am Emma, OMG talk about downlights hehehe ![]() ![]() Re: Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 28Aug 29, 2012 12:23 am Glad prestart was fun for you!! I know a lot of your choices, your house will look stunning! And that garage door! OMG! Did you have to comply with certain colour guidelines for alkimos? I thought I read something about that the other day but can't remember which suburb! Can't wait to see this colour board! DAH really goes above and beyond! You were very good re: downlighys Mary! I would have said something to get me kicked off. But the forum is no place for linking to eBay stuff to sell it. -.- Jen ![]() ![]() Building with HomeGroupWA (started as Scott Park Homes ![]() Check out my Build Thread!! Time line on P1. Re: Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 29Aug 29, 2012 10:48 am ![]() Emma, OMG talk about downlights hehehe ![]() ![]() Lol - this was the 'copy' of the Nautilus although even then I took a few out!! ![]() ![]() Glad prestart was fun for you!! I know a lot of your choices, your house will look stunning! And that garage door! OMG! Did you have to comply with certain colour guidelines for alkimos? I thought I read something about that the other day but can't remember which suburb! Can't wait to see this colour board! DAH really goes above and beyond! Ah Enelya you are too kind! ![]() ![]() Hope we get our colour board soon - then I can satisfy the 'pre-start' junkies!! ![]() ![]() Building the Nautilus with Dale Alcock follow my thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=58854&p=909574#p909574 14/8/12 Pre-start! Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 30Aug 29, 2012 1:08 pm Didn't know they did a colour board for you??? Lol. Did you have to ask or do they just do it?? Building the Riva by Dale Alcock Homes. Follow our progress here: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=57075 Re: Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 31Aug 29, 2012 7:26 pm ![]() ![]() Glad prestart was fun for you!! I know a lot of your choices, your house will look stunning! And that garage door! OMG! Did you have to comply with certain colour guidelines for alkimos? I thought I read something about that the other day but can't remember which suburb! Can't wait to see this colour board! DAH really goes above and beyond! Ah Enelya you are too kind! ![]() ![]() Hope we get our colour board soon - then I can satisfy the 'pre-start' junkies!! ![]() ![]() It sounds gorgeous, very laid back relaxing kind of lifestyle! I hope they make everyone comply to maintain that! I had a friend who built on a "dress circle" for lack of a better term street and had to have 2 different finishes, select types of colours, certain features and high spec finishes and i believe a fancy door, then 2 doors down there are 2 houses with 1 colour render all the way and no features... given they paid a lot of money for that particular street its not cool! I love surfmist! Its the perfect colour! And on a roof reflective of heat!! (Can't wait to see mine!) Jen ![]() ![]() Building with HomeGroupWA (started as Scott Park Homes ![]() Check out my Build Thread!! Time line on P1. Re: Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 32Aug 29, 2012 10:05 pm Another surfmist fan here ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Re: Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 33Aug 29, 2012 10:13 pm We're also planning on surfmist roof. Very nice ![]() Re: Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 34Aug 29, 2012 11:04 pm ![]() Didn't know they did a colour board for you??? Lol. Did you have to ask or do they just do it?? It was included as part of the Aspire specification ![]() ![]() It sounds gorgeous, very laid back relaxing kind of lifestyle! I hope they make everyone comply to maintain that! I had a friend who built on a "dress circle" for lack of a better term street and had to have 2 different finishes, select types of colours, certain features and high spec finishes and i believe a fancy door, then 2 doors down there are 2 houses with 1 colour render all the way and no features... given they paid a lot of money for that particular street its not cool! I love surfmist! Its the perfect colour! And on a roof reflective of heat!! (Can't wait to see mine!) I hope so too! There are already a lot of builds completed up there, as you go North on Marmion you get to the brow of the hill and look down onto Shorehaven - there is a sea of Surfmist and Shale Grey roofs! ![]() I TOTALLY agree with the heat reflective bit too! It will save a fortune in cooling costs in the summer - loads of people comment on the difference in internal temperature beween a white and dark roof. Treeseachanger and LeanneR - it's the future! White, cool roofs!! ![]() Building the Nautilus with Dale Alcock follow my thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=58854&p=909574#p909574 14/8/12 Pre-start! Re: Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 35Sep 14, 2012 9:05 pm Just subscribing to your thread. We are going to be building in Trinity hopefully once our land settles. So I am trying to follow people building up that way and get some hints and tips along the way as it will be our first build. Such a lovely place to be building and your house plan looked great. I love the sound of the Pearl Grey kitchen cabinets. ![]() Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 36Sep 15, 2012 12:03 am How are things going for you, Emma? Sent from my iPad Building the Riva by Dale Alcock Homes. Follow our progress here: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=57075 Re: Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 37Sep 27, 2012 1:18 am Hi emma, We are looking at building the nautilus and looking through your plans and reading your blog seems like my taste is similar. ![]() Re: Our Dale Alcock Nautilus in Alkimos - Contracts signed 38Dec 16, 2012 12:46 pm Hey Em, anything happening? I would raise this and get them to suggest a remediation. My personal opinion, while it is not aligned to centre, if you put a toilet roll holder / vanity / toilet brush… 1 10923 I second taking your plans elsewhere. They're yours (unless you ended up in one of those cheaper arrangements where you don't own the rights and the build will be tendered… 2 33117 We are building a second dwelling and are currently selecting window and door frames. We want to blend into the forest and also bring out the stone work and the fake wood… 0 28056 |