Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Nov 15, 2014 8:09 am We've bought land in southern Adelaide for domolition and rebuild. After plenty of time trawling around the display villages and talking to sales staff, we're going with Oakford Homes to build a custom design to work with our rather odd shaped block. It's almost triangular with a long major frontage facing north.
Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We've organised the living areas to face the north, as well as have access to the back yard. Similarly I wanted the garage to have access to the yard. Bed 1 is kinda close to the other bedrooms, but keeps it private out the back, and allows it to overlook the backyard. It also gives us a single nightime cooling thermal zone with short return air paths. I've done a bit of 3D modelling to get an idea of how it will look. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We're getting close to signing off on the plans, so hopefully we can get the project going in the near future. Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes 2Nov 15, 2014 10:47 am Wow, I love your 3D modelling. I like homes with master bedroom near minor rooms. Good luck look forward to seeing it all happen. Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes 3Nov 15, 2014 5:51 pm Love the entrance and dining area. Your render is great! Will you use those exterior colours? It's a lovely scheme and help keep heat down Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes 4Nov 16, 2014 9:12 am What program did you use for 3D modelling? Looks great! We are looking at going with Oakford, how have you found them so far? Quick service? Realistic price indication? We've been burnt with another builder recently and skeptical these days... Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes 5Nov 16, 2014 11:57 pm Yeah another Oakford build! http://boostaoakfordsa.wordpress.com Site works: 26/8/14 Trench: 2/9/14 Slab: 8/9/14 Frame: 18/9/14 Bricks: 24/10/14 2nd fix: 24/11/14 Handover: End Feb 2015 Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes 6Nov 17, 2014 6:27 am Thanks for the comments. I did the 3D render in Blender with the Cycles rendering engine. It's more aimed at animation than archiviz, but isn't too hard to work with. I've been using it a fair bit to tweak the design and proportions of things, and also work with the materials. So yes, that is the currently intended colour scheme. Surfmist roof and gutters, paperbark facia. Bricks are to be the Littlehampton Tuscany with lightly ironed off-white mortar. The quoins are there partly to help visually tie in the brickwork to the roof. I'd rather stay away from render and keep a face brick, but it may need something to break up all the brick. Adelaide has so many fake quoins that a few more shouldn't do too much damage... We're not very far through the process yet, but Oakford have been fairly good so far. In retrospect I should have worked out and given them a fully finished plan with all the window locations and everything sorted out for brick dimensions. I thought I'd leave them with the flexibility to sort that out the way they wanted to, but that meant I had to fiddle their first plan to get everything sorted out the way I wanted. They haven't complained at all about my changes, but it does lengthen the process. I've been a bit specific with some window sizes, which are not part of their standard sizes. For these they said they might charge extra, but when they got prices they didn't charge any extra anyhow, except on one window that's a double-hung, and in that case is pretty much in line with how much extra A&L charge for that window. I've changed a few other things to do it differently to their normal details, like 2550 tall sliding robe doors, and some funny bulkheads and they're handling that without problems or excessive charges. So at this point they have been quite good at keeping costs in line with actual building costs in the changes after signing the contract, but of course we still have a long way to go yet. Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes 7Nov 17, 2014 12:36 pm I upgraded my windows to rylock double glaze and before Oakford quoted it. I spoke to a rylock sales who quoted $12.5k. Oakford allowed for 10k allowance (trade in of their standard windows) which was spot on. http://boostaoakfordsa.wordpress.com Site works: 26/8/14 Trench: 2/9/14 Slab: 8/9/14 Frame: 18/9/14 Bricks: 24/10/14 2nd fix: 24/11/14 Handover: End Feb 2015 Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes 8Nov 17, 2014 10:04 pm boosta I upgraded my windows to rylock double glaze and before Oakford quoted it. I spoke to a rylock sales who quoted $12.5k. Oakford allowed for 10k allowance (trade in of their standard windows) which was spot on. OMG so jealous! When we first decided building, we had Rylock double-glazed double-hung windows in the spec (added $20k to the price, but we LOVED them)! Beautiful windows. We didn't get them in the end as the builder went broke just before the slab was poured. We're getting double-hung windows on the front façade only now. John, I love your colour scheme. The cream bricks with off white mortar is going to look fantastic. Especially with the finish. We wanted flush mortar but our builder only does rolled. We chose cream bricks with off white mortar too and thought if mortar was flush it might have a bit of a 'Mediteranean' look. The quoins will look fantastic and bricks are awesome. Your quoins will also add interest and the extra texture. I'll be watching this one. Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes 9Mar 04, 2015 8:27 pm We made it through council without too much problem, and now it's time to get all the selections sorted out. We have in mind something of a white theme, and are pretty keen to keep the interior walls white. We need to pick the parts that will give contrast though. We're leaninng to something along these lines. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ They're a gloss white door, one of the specked engineered stone tops, and a splashback with a bit of subtle colour, perhaps going to a metallic. It's still a bit spartan in the rendering, but I tihnk that's partly because I haven't drawn in a lot of details. The other idea we were working with was to introduce some dark timber grain doors. This is a more striking look, but ends up more expensive, and I'm not so sure about the longer term freshness of the look. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes - Footings costs 10Mar 07, 2015 1:26 pm Well, footings costs have come in, and it's an $8000 variation upward. I'm not all that happy about it, but I can see from the engineering drawings that we do have quite deep footings, at 900mm deep beams. I think they're being on the cautious side, bucause it's somewhat deeper than the place going up next door, where the soil would have to be much the same. But then I'd rather have footings over-engineered rather than under, so it looks like just pouring some more $$$ into the project. It includes $4500 for removal of spoil though, which sounds kind of high to me, so that might be something to follow up on. Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes - Interior Colou 11Mar 07, 2015 1:58 pm Yep, site cost increases aren't fun. Your dining area is great (big). Love the timber. Really adds more depth. To save on the costs of adding that, you could do just base cupboards. That's what we're doing and the contrast is interesting. We have similar colour stone benches (Ice snow Ceasarstone) which I think goes really well. I like the layout of your living spaces EDIT: oops you have got cupboard contrast -- looks nice! Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes - Interior Colou 12Mar 09, 2015 10:13 am Thanks for that. The dining area had to be fairly large. The other half likes her 1800x1800 dining table, which takes up quite a bit of space. I also have a plan to one day try to cut that table in half, so it can be reconfigured as a 3600x900 table for large gatherings - and that means the area also needs to be quite long as well as wide. It's handy having plenty of room where people can gather. Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes - Interior Colou 13Mar 09, 2015 2:07 pm Great idea. I was eyeballing that huge table. Which council are you with Onk? Or not that far south? And any idea when you'll start? Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes - Interior Colou 14Mar 13, 2015 8:36 pm We're in Mitcham council, so in an established area. I don't quite know when construction will start. The limiting factor wil probably be the domolition of the current house. Perhaps foolishly I waited until council approval untill getting the services disconnected, so they may not be cut off until mid April, and demolition a few weeks beyond that. By then all the selections and design work should be done, so hopefully they can schedule a start! I'm sure I could have got things going a lot quicker, but that would probably be a whole lot more stressful too.. Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes - Interior Colou 15Mar 16, 2015 10:52 am Looks good! I suggest the old red brick co for demo if you haven't organised one. http://boostaoakfordsa.wordpress.com Site works: 26/8/14 Trench: 2/9/14 Slab: 8/9/14 Frame: 18/9/14 Bricks: 24/10/14 2nd fix: 24/11/14 Handover: End Feb 2015 Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes - Interior Colou 16Mar 16, 2015 5:36 pm I was really happy with Magill Demolition if you are looking for a few quotes. I have also heard that GP and sons are very competitve on price. BLOG: http://www.ourphoenix38.blogspot.com.au H1 THREAD: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=70454 Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes - Interior Colou 17Mar 18, 2015 7:43 pm I'm looking at going with GP and sons. People have spoken well of them on forums, and they've come in well on the pricing. The gas is now all abolished, and now just waiting for the electricity, and it should be ready to go. Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes - Interior Colou 18Apr 13, 2015 10:55 pm Took about 6 weeks for SAPN to abolish the elec (really just remove the meter). Ours happened on Friday. We are still waiting for demolishion approval. Love your 3D rendering mine is all in AutoCAD so looks a little comical as far as colours are concerned. Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes - Interior Colou 19Apr 14, 2015 7:37 pm Our power was abolished last week too, so now demolition can happen as soon as they are ready to start. That will be the first real action on the site. The 3D rendering has turned out to be quite an important tool in designing this place, particularly in working out details, like the entrance gable and the line of the dropped ceiling. It kind of helps with colours and finishes as well, but the tricky thing there is to get sufficiently realistic textures and lighting for it to be meaningful. It's nice and relaxing doing the 3D modelling though. Sorting out all the selections has been a bit of a stressful time for us. Reigning in the cost is tricky, but fortunately our standard spec is fairly good, so it isn't to bad to fall back to the no-upgrade option. We had about $500 of upgrades in tiling, which didn't seem too bad, but then the tile company came back to us saying that the 400mm shower shelves we'd specified were actually going to cost more, and be $100 each extra over the standard included 200mm one. Given you can buy that 400mm shelf for $33 retail, that sounds like a bit of a grab, so I've queried them on just where the money is on that one! Re: Building in Adelaide with Oakford Homes - Interior Colou 20Apr 14, 2015 9:33 pm GP sons just did our demolition (3 weeks or so ago) - second one they have done for us. Hard working good mob : ) We hired Darbecca to do every stage inspection, and I strongly recommend them to anyone that asks me. They were amazing. Thorough reports with photos at every stage,… 6 7143 i would not be signing anything on the day read your contract about when builder submits final invoice generally, have to meet builder within 7 days of receiving final… 1 4747 Building a new home, and looking for a garage builder (home builder not contracted to do this). Someone to build steel garage (double), colorbond, including supply and… 0 3255 |