Our build with Stylemaster homes

Love the Claremont 24, was on our list too! Good luck

Nothing much happening atm, still waiting for the frames which they weren't able to schedule in until the 29th. I hate waiting im so impatient! Good to see SOMETHING finally happening and be able to show family pics of the house we've been talking about for the past year but have had no updates for lol.
Thought Id update with pics of what colours we chose at prestart:

Roof tile. Top is window frames, middle is fascia & downpipes, bottom is colour of garage door, plus guttering.
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This is kitchen. Bottom is floor tile, The grey square is our glass splashback, left Is cabinets & right is benchtop. We decided to pay a bit extra and get 40mm benchtop instead of the 20mm standard & waterfall for the island. (this & the glass splashback were very important to my husband despite me being the one in the kitchen all the time!)
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This is the laundry & bathrooms so again floor tile, cabinets & benchtop same as kitchen & wall tiles are glossy white.
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This is the brick we have chosen. We wanted something really light & the sales lady convinced us this was perfect so I realllllly hope she was right.
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The carpet we are going with is Redbook Harmonia II Natural Stone I forgot to get a photo of that when we chose it

My best friend was incredulous when I showed her and was like OMG its all white how boring I like the plainer cupboards, benchtops etc so I can add colour with furniture and rugs etc so its easier if I decide I want to change the colour! I think we might paint feature walls tho just to put a bit of colour in, the kids rooms are definitely getting a colour feature wall. I also have a 'friend' who has already made remarks on how tiny our place is- who is going to accidentally have her invite to the housewarming lost in the post!

We did most of our changes/upgrades before we went to prestart. They had a few bonus specials going on at the time so we are getting free ducted air conditioning (which wasn't a big seller to us as my dad installs them & could have got it dirt cheap anyway- but hey if its not any extra why not), ceiling height upgraded to 2590mm from 2440mm & half price carpet & flooring. We are also getting double hinged doors put on the media room (hubby wanted room to be able to be totally dark to watch movies lol). We also paid a bit more to upgrade the carpet as I didn't like the feel of any of the included ones, got a couple extra TV points put in and extra power points etc. Just a few little things, but prestart still cost us an extra 3k! (I know most people spend more but like I said we did a lot of our changes prior to this I think overall we prob spent about an extra 20-30k on top of the base house price)

I am confused about one thing though. The builder didn't mention to us at any point that we needed wiring done in the house for opticomm to connect so someone contacted me the other day to organise a quote (which now has to be paid out of our own pocket grr) & it says the quote doesn't include a communications cabinet in the garage and we would need to get an electrician to put this in. Ive never had NBN before so no idea what this does?

Also Im trying to work out where to put our data & phone point. We are only getting one as we don't have numerous things that would need to hook up & would just connect most things by wifi anyway. The obvious spot would be the study however I work from home & my work will install a separate data/phone point in there so needs to go somewhere else. Where would you put it? I was thinking somewhere in the kitchen but theres not really a spot next to the bench or anywhere a phone could sit like in our current rental. Suggestions?

Do most places not have those things? We've never built so I have no idea whats normally included lol. We had to wait until the street was fully completed before we even got access so completed rds & even plants along the rd!



See that's my thinking, I said to DH if we chose a really out there colour it might also make it harder to sell as peoples tastes are so different. I just hope it doesn't look too boring. Think I might go buy a bright blue toaster & kettle to go in the kitchen haha! Think you might be onto something with jealous friends.



I love my ensuite too I hate using the main toilet the kids use LOL but don't like going to the toilet when DH is in the shower so at least this way he wont be able to see me! haha yeah window is floor length.

Congrats on the build, we are looking at Stylemaster also. We seen the Claremont 24 at North Lakes and looks like a nice home and big enough having grown up in breeder box this looks like a mansion.
I was looking on the web for building experiences with them before fully committing as we have only done the 1500 deposit, as we did the same with another (Big M) and they didn't even do soil tests or site survey and sent us plans back using the developers contours which is amateur.

We are looking at the Bayside 30 which is like the Baybreeze just sideways as this will hopefully fit our block. One thing I noticed on your plan and we asked to do was to take the rooms out by 1/2 mtr and was a lot cheaper than I thought and makes a difference and was only 1500 for the bedrooms so would be good to get feedback from anyone on what can be achieved for asking questions that they may not ask....ta

My plan is not to dissimilar to yours, I am looking at the display homes as they are done by interior decorators and have a lot of things the builder does not actually do and see what we can do to replicate it. Clearly some of the upgrade packages make a difference but they have a habit of extending walls and patios without telling anyone to make it look better and bigger.
Looking at the feature walls in the homes they don't do as they look great, wallpaper if back by the looks of it. Some of the cabinetry could be done cheaper but also make the house look different. Those casings they have around the fridges look great also so will look into those and apparently aren't that expensive. When I ask the price on something I always get the "its not a million dollars" response but each one of these will add up to a $1m eventually. The Sales guy so far seems like a nice guy, time will tell.

Not sure about the NBN, if you estate has it then get it done. We were quote 995 for it but we are not even on the NBN site map so wont do it, the router I would stick in the study near the desk in case wireless fails and you can connect a Ethernet cable to it. I am sure you can hide it there somewhere behind the desk etc. Phone point you could put in the same place a get a cordless phone one for the study and one for anywhere else in the house, find these days the only people that ring you are from India and I don't know anyone there...

Will watch your build and if you could let us know of any pointers before we commit that would be good. I have already heard of one site supervisor not to get but he is Northside so I think you would be safe.

This looks awfully familiar

I'm following on here now

Hi firstbuild14, how is your build progressing? Our build with SM is going to start shortly, so interested to see how the process is going for you! Looks like we have chosen similar colour schemes as well

wont be long now before you move in looks great

We have keys!!!!!!! I'm a bit slow as it was last Friday but gosh things have been hectic. I'll put pics up a bit later but I just wanted to come on and ask, does anyone know what the responsibility of the cabinet maker is when it comes to the holes in the cabinet for the cords etc for the washing machine??? We have a front lower which goes under the bench, and the taps and power point is is the cupboard but there's no holes to put it thru!!! Of course being so close to Christmas stylemaster closed the day we had handover and we didn't realise til we tried to put our washing machine in. We were going to put holes ourselves and then wondered if there would be an issue if we did it ourself? We can't use our washing machine!!!

I do but I wasn't sure if he would respond given that he's now on leave til 19th Jan. We were going to buy all the tools for it but it wasn't going to be cheap and I figured we prob wouldn't use them again so if it was supposed to be done by them we should get it done for free. Just means the washing machine will have to sit in front of the cupboard to work!!! I just wasn't sure if it was supposed to be included