Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Aug 13, 2013 5:35 pm Hi everyone....... after years of thinking "Wouldn't it be great to one day build our own home ...... well, we're finally doing it! We've chosen the Masterton Overture Premier (with lots of modifications!), and the journey has begun. Having trouble trying to get my head around the external colour selections at the moment. Masterton are preparing the plans and we need to decide external colours in the next couple of weeks. Then we will start working out the internal selections (looking forward to that!) At the moment, we have decided on PGH Bricks in Cement colour. Roof will be Monier Horizon tiles in Barramundi colour (its a dark grey) - although we were considering Sambucca (black), but thought it might be too dark? Gutters will probably be Colourbond Monument (also dark grey). We would like the downpipes to blend in with the bricks, rather than stand out and make a statement, so they probably won't be Monument, but not sure what colour. Hubby thinks Evening Haze, but I'm thinking Paperbark. Garage door ...... hmmm, also debating between Paperbark and Evening Haze (will probably be the same as whatever we choose for downpipes). And fascias, eaves, etc...... well, not too sure at the moment! Any suggestions from your experiences would be great! Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 2Aug 21, 2013 11:26 am Hi I am building with Masterton as well. We are building the Villina 32. How have you found them so far?? Have you included the mansion package? Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 3Aug 21, 2013 2:33 pm Hi fingalbrad..... Yes, we are getting the mansion package as well. We are still in the early stages so have no real complaints with Masterton (as yet?) ...... it just seems to be taking a while!! I'm sure there are things going on that we can't see! We paid our deposit nearly a month ago, and we were told at the time that it would probably be about 5 - 6 weeks before the final plans are ready, then we can do colour selections at their Warwick Farm offices. A couple of days ago, the latest email from the sales consultant was still saying it would be about 5 - 6 weeks before plans are ready. I'd rather we/they get it right and not rush, but I would really like to see some house building start! Where are you building? At what stage of the process are you at? Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 4Aug 21, 2013 3:14 pm Hi we paid the deposit back on 13th July. Apparently first round of drawings should be coming soon. We are building at Croudace Bay in Lake Macquarie. What about yourself? I am a bit worried about the 90 day tender process. They can try and charge you if it goes over but they seem to take as much time as possible. We will be delaying the building till January. Going to use the full 180 days. Where are you building Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 5Aug 21, 2013 4:17 pm We're building in Gerringong (just south of Kiama). I'm holding my breath a bit till we get through council.... Kiama Council apparently can be rather difficult to get along with when it comes to DA's. They only allow 60cm's cut & fill as they don't want a lot of retaining walls.... they would rather people build split level homes that follow the land slope. We have modified the Overture Premier to have a couple of steps in it, so hopefully Council will allow our design, cause we don't want a full-on split level (too many stairs..... already had that for the past 15 years!). Not sure if we will make the 90 day limit.... Masterton don't seem to be in a hurry! I would love to get a slab by Christmas! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 6Aug 23, 2013 7:57 am HI we got our first round of plans today. Exciting but they did miss out on a few things. Should be easily changed though. What size doors are you having in the house?? I think 2100 comes standard but some can upgrade to 2300 depending on their roof height Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 7Aug 23, 2013 5:41 pm Wow..... exciting times!!!! We're having whatever the standard size doors are. Our block of land slopes from side to side, so we are splitting the house to be higher on one side than the other. In doing this, we aren't having the 2.6 mtr high ceilings throughout the house. On the high side (bedrooms) we're having 2.4 mtr ceilings, so "normal" height doors will be fine. On the lower side (living area) we're having 3 mtr high ceilings. But there aren't a lot of doors on this side either. The sliding doors to the alfresco area would be nice to have really tall, but of course they would charge a lot more for these too! So normal height doors for us. Tall doors look really good though! I'm feeling a bit frustrated with M at the moment..... we get emails to double check stuff, and we send an email back asking about another issue...... then hear nothing for days at a time. I know I can ring and ask (again) about whats happening, but am getting tired of doing that. I figure they're busy, and we aren't they're only clients, but it would be nice to get some acknowledgement and response. Oh well...... enough whinging! We have some plans done, but a couple of changes still need to happen with ours too. I've heard that once the "real" plans are done, then any changes we make will cost us $1000 each change! So I hope we get it right as possible before we get to that point. Glad to hear yours is moving forward! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 8Aug 23, 2013 7:51 pm GillyM Hi everyone....... after years of thinking "Wouldn't it be great to one day build our own home ...... well, we're finally doing it! We've chosen the Masterton Overture Premier (with lots of modifications!), and the journey has begun. Having trouble trying to get my head around the external colour selections at the moment. Masterton are preparing the plans and we need to decide external colours in the next couple of weeks. Then we will start working out the internal selections (looking forward to that!) At the moment, we have decided on PGH Bricks in Cement colour. Roof will be Monier Horizon tiles in Barramundi colour (its a dark grey) - although we were considering Sambucca (black), but thought it might be too dark? Gutters will probably be Colourbond Monument (also dark grey). We would like the downpipes to blend in with the bricks, rather than stand out and make a statement, so they probably won't be Monument, but not sure what colour. Hubby thinks Evening Haze, but I'm thinking Paperbark. Garage door ...... hmmm, also debating between Paperbark and Evening Haze (will probably be the same as whatever we choose for downpipes). And fascias, eaves, etc...... well, not too sure at the moment! Any suggestions from your experiences would be great! G'day gillym, we too are building the overture, your colours sound very similar to ours. We are having cement bricks, barramundi roof, monument gutters and garage door, surfmist fascia and windows. We waited 9 weeks for our first lot of plans!! Just paid the 5% and we are waiting for our colour appointment. Read thru the masterton thread you will pick up a heap of good advice. Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 9Aug 23, 2013 9:06 pm Hi Chopdog! I have been looking at the masterton thread...... definitely lots of great advice. At the moment, patience is the virtue I am in need of!! Where are you building? Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 10Aug 27, 2013 8:20 am Hey we were told our front door will be the 2340mm high. But the rest of the internal doors are 2040. Which is fine. We just wanted the bigger front door. We have gone for cement PGH bricks. Probably a surfmist Colourbond roof and surfmist or white windows. We are going for the creamy looking tiles from the yes range as we will most likely have white cupboard doors. Dont what the kitchen looking like a hospital. We got our first plans and need to have a look and then go see Masterton. Is this when you finalise them?? Or do they make changes and you get to have a look and maybe make a couple more changes before they submit them to council?? Also does anyone know if the skirting boards are raised or not in the tiled areas?? Sometimes when you tile it reduces the height of the skirting board and it may look silly Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 11Aug 31, 2013 4:54 pm Hi again........ we went to visit PGH Bricks at Schofields today. Nearly two hours driving to get there, but definitely worth it. Had a slight change to our colour schemes...... still having the Cement bricks, roof is still Barramundi and gutters will still be Monument. But now our fascias, downpipes and garage door will be Surfmist. Window frames will be Alpine White.... mainly because I plan on having white shutters (at least on the front of the house) and think the Alpine White will look best with white shutters. But back to the bricks...... more specifically, mortar colour. Has anyone used the colour match option to match the mortar to the brick colour? Any idea what Masterton are likely to charge us if we request this option? Sounds like many aspects of our houses will be similar, fingalbrad! We are also planning on having the lightest of the tiles from the Yes range, as well as a mostly white kitchen. We might go for a bit of colour in a glass splashback, so not too concerned about being too sterile. We have a white kitchen now, with a jade green glass splashback, and it looks great. Will probably do similar colours in the new house. Can't wait to get to the colour selections with Masterton! We have had multiple minor plan changes and apparently our plans are currently with the draftspeople..... I'm guessing that we will be hearing from them soon with the final (?) plans. Is this when they want the 5% payment? We haven't been given the final variation list/costing, so can't get the ball rolling on the bank loan (they have given approval ..... just need the final costing from Masterton so we can sign the papers). But we need the costings a week or two before the 5% is needed so that we have time to do the paperwork with the bank. Anyone know what we can expect in regards to this? Also (one last pondering for today)....... I think I have read somewhere in these forums that Masterton charge extra if you choose to paint the internals all white. Anyone know if this is true? Thanks again everyone!!!! Hopefully we'll hear more from Masterton soon and I'll have some more news to share!! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 12Sep 05, 2013 7:58 am Why would they charge you to paint them all white?? I would have thought they would prefer this. I will be paying the 5% from my own money and then going to the bank for approval when I get DA certified plans. Well this is what they told me to do. I have seen my friends partner who does home loans and she said we would have no problems getting the finance. Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 13Sep 05, 2013 5:24 pm fingalbrad Why would they charge you to paint them all white?? I would have thought they would prefer this. I will be paying the 5% from my own money and then going to the bank for approval when I get DA certified plans. Well this is what they told me to do. I have seen my friends partner who does home loans and she said we would have no problems getting the finance. Apparently they charge more for white because they only do one coat of undercoat and one coat of top coat. And light colours need more than one coat ..... although I would say that ALL colours need more than one coat. We thought that we would go for white because M charge more if we chose more than one colour .... and thats one colour for walls, trim, doors, everything. So we thought that if they painted everything white, we could put colour on whichever walls we choose, and painting walls is easier than painting doors, architraves, etc. But since this thought, in the Masterton topic someone posted that it wasn't all that expensive to sort out the painting and pay the extra to have coloured walls and white trim. I guess we'll have that conversation when we get to colour selections. I think we will also be paying the 5% out of our savings. Its been 5 weeks since we paid the $3500 to get things started, and they told us it would be 5 - 6 weeks before we get to colour selection so we hopefully should be doing that soon. fingers crossed!!! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 14Sep 11, 2013 7:29 am HI we got our variations back. We deleted an extension of the concrete slab to make a patio. It was worth $4750 and it seems as though they have tried to get their money back. Charging us $4500 to bag and paint the fascade with a bit of rendering. I told them to shove it as you could render the whole fascade after handover for less than that. Also they want to charge me an extra 2k for deeper piers. I said thats ridiculous, the engineer should have looked at the borelog before the first plans were drawn up not after and then sting us with a 2k addition Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 15Sep 11, 2013 10:43 am Hi fingalbrad..... i agree with the decision to bag/render yourselves.... we're doing it ourselves at a later date as well. Is the 2k for deeper piers negotiable? Or is it something you just have to do & pay for? It certainly can be a trying process! We haven't heard back from M as yet with our plans.... might have to drop them an email! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 16Sep 13, 2013 7:33 am We got our draft plans yesterday.... only a couple of things we plan to change. We originally had planned to carpet the hallway near the bedrooms as well as the office & media room (kids lounge). Now decided to go with the tiles, so need to get that changed. Also, for some unknown reason, M have put a stacker door on one of the kids bedrooms where there should have been a solid brick wall. lol.... my son would probably like that, but might not be so pleased about the 60cm drop from the door down to the floor of the alfresco area where the door would open onto! Heading in to council this morning to have them have a quick look over the plans to see if there is anything thats likely to cause any issues with council. fingers crossed! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 17Sep 13, 2013 12:02 pm Hi GillyM We are building in the Illawarra and we chose white for all our walls and then paid for feature walls. The cost of an additional colour was $490.00- for however many walls we wanted in that colour. So if you wanted an additional colour that was different in each room it can get expensive but we wanted a chocolate/coffee them in our house so we painted our recesses and a wall in our main bedroom and family room in the chocolate and only paid the $490.00 which I was quite happy with. Built Symphony MBTF- Masterton Moved in Oct 2013 Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 18Sep 13, 2013 4:48 pm SherryP_75 Hi GillyM We are building in the Illawarra and we chose white for all our walls and then paid for feature walls. The cost of an additional colour was $490.00- for however many walls we wanted in that colour. So if you wanted an additional colour that was different in each room it can get expensive but we wanted a chocolate/coffee them in our house so we painted our recesses and a wall in our main bedroom and family room in the chocolate and only paid the $490.00 which I was quite happy with. Hi SherryP_75!! ..... well thats pretty good! Now that we have our draft plans, we hope to hear from M so we can arrange to meet with the draftsman and make any final changes, and then hopefully we can start doing the colour choices. Good to hear that we can have a different wall colour without it costing too much more. Cheers!! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 19Sep 13, 2013 5:05 pm Well, the visit to council wasn't as picture perfect as it could have been. Due to the slope on our block, M have included a retaining wall that exceeds councils limit of 600mm. Looks like its over a metre, which council doesn't like. M have also noted it on our plans as "owner to build", yet we haven't been told anything about it (got to love that fine print!). Also, we modified the side of the house to not have an indent in a couple of rooms so those rooms would be as wide as possible. And this means that the side of the house apparently has too much expanse of unbroken brick wall. Mind you, this wall will only be facing a fence, and because of the slope of the land, it will be completely unseen. Not sure if council will be flexible on this...... the estate we are building in has so many rules and regulations, it makes it difficult on so many points. They even said that we have to have a dedicated storage room somewhere within the house!! Guess we will just rename the "study" to now be "storage" !!! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 20Sep 19, 2013 1:13 pm GillyM Hi Chopdog! I have been looking at the masterton thread...... definitely lots of great advice. At the moment, patience is the virtue I am in need of!! Where are you building? We are building at Oran Park Town. Where are you building? 4 16735 "Losers" "humanity" "off time" "your" "top notch" "love symbol" Sounds like ponzo is done using other people's toilets 36 23887 Is it just a report written to give to the bank initially and it is based on what and how your payments are made up for, or is it a full service where they go out and… 2 5599 |