Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Oct 06, 2015 11:45 am Edit** 13/4 - 4 years in the making of this place! Hope you'll enjoy the build now that its well underway. This will be a horse property. Our vision was simple: solid old Australian homestead. The materials are traditional - old red clinkers recycled from a knocked down police station, white mortar, plain galvanised roof, 2.7m ceilings, recycled timber floors, white kitchen, fireplace. We chose a lot of glass, with black trim - including black interior doors. Interior shopping is minimal, leaning towards western, with a little taxidermy and original art. The build also includes a workshop inside, and a shed outside, plus tree planting, horse facilities and fencing. We put a bit of a twist on it modernising room sizes and shapes, including a "shower cave" in the ensuite - completely blacked out with two shower heads and no glass - overall, very pleased with progress.
----------- Hi guys. I've been browsing HO for a while now, and thought I'd join in! We placed a hold on this block in November 2014(for settlement in March... yeah, right!) and we finally settle this month on the 16th - yay! So I thought, despite us likely not building until mid next year, I should start a thread since it's been a ride already! My partner and I are young first home buyers, much to his dismay though - I have horses! So when we started tossing up the idea of purchasing a house, we thought we might just buy an older home in town and board the horses. My, how that idea went out the window! We went for a drive one day, and saw this development coming up. It had no fencing, but you could get the gist of it. He said "hmm, I'd live here". So one day, a few months later, while at work (working, of course!) I was browsing Domain and lo and behold, the blocks had come up - affordable, too! I called the Real Estate, and we picked a block. Nearly 12 months later, we have our sold sticker! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We settle on the 16th, and we are so excited. The house is more or less finished, something totally designed by scratch. It will be a wide-frontage farm house on a slight angle to face the alfresco North. Likely red-brick/white mortar/gal coloured roof - but we're not that far ahead! Looking forward to posting updates as they come! Re: 7.6 acres in NE Victoria. 2Oct 06, 2015 3:46 pm Welcome, your land and your set out looks lovely. Looking forward to following along! We are in NE Vic also viewtopic.php?f=31&t=76666 our custom build on 25 acres Re: 7.6 acres in NE Victoria. 4Oct 07, 2015 6:00 am Heh. Thanks guys - we're thrilled! Horse facilities are definitely the most important aspect, much to his dismay. Re: 7.6 acres in NE Victoria. 5Oct 07, 2015 8:39 am Looks great! How exciting to be having your horses living with you also Looking forward to seeing how your house comes along Re: 7.6 acres in NE Victoria. 7Oct 09, 2015 1:54 pm Had a minor hissy fit to the conveyancer today after a WHOLE bunch of mistakes during the life of the transaction, including but not all: Wrong spelling of our names on the contract, Incorrect Shire listed on the contract. Having to chase up "missing!!!!!" deposit myself. Incorrect address on legal documents. Anyway, boom - we got a refund. I've never written a complaint letter before so a bit out of water there, but their complaints service was far better than their original service, lol. Looking forward to the 16th so we can purchase and plant our first trees. Re: 7.6 acres in NE Victoria. 8Oct 11, 2015 4:03 am Gee thats pretty good. The conveyancer we are using is great but the person we are purchasing from seems to have studied at the same place your conveyencer did. Spelling mistakes, errors through the Section 32 etc. We've had to pay our lawyer to fix up their mess! Re: 7.6 acres in NE Victoria. 9Mar 07, 2016 8:54 am Phew. A long wait, as always, but we're getting somewhere. Our plans have been mostly finalised, bar a few small changes! Insanely excited at this point. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Thinking about bricks, colours and all the good things. Styling will be as traditional as possible, hopefully utilising recycled bricks, white mortar, black door, white trim and as close to gal coloured roof as I can get! We did away with the garage in favour of a bigger shed and workshop, as well as aesthetics - geez, wasn't that a fight with the partner, haha! Re: 7.6 acres in NE Victoria. 10Mar 07, 2016 9:03 am Looks lovely. Quote: House/barn/driveway/arena... fences dividing stuff, obviously, haha. Did you take a photo of that mockup on your Mac with a phone? You can do a Command-Shift-4 keystroke click and drag your cursor to take a screenshot of what is on your screen. Stewie Re: 7.6 acres in NE Victoria. 11Mar 07, 2016 9:04 am Stewie D Looks lovely. Quote: House/barn/driveway/arena... fences dividing stuff, obviously, haha. Did you take a photo of that mockup on your Mac with a phone? You can do a Command-Shift-4 keystroke click and drag your cursor to take a screenshot of what is on your screen. Stewie Correct - however we don't have internet at home so I wasn't able to post from there except via the phones 4G, just a quick snap for my own reference lol. Re: 7.6 acres in NE Victoria. 12Mar 08, 2016 8:00 am Quote: We did away with the garage in favour of a bigger shed and workshop, as well as aesthetics - geez, wasn't that a fight with the partner, haha! I don't know any guy that wouldn't be happier with a bigger shed and workshop ! Stewie Re: 7.6 acres in NE Victoria. 13Mar 08, 2016 12:23 pm Just playing around with some facade colours to get a really "heritage" look - I looooove the black trim. Not so sure about black render, too!
Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Recycled red brick, black trim, black render, Surfmist roof. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Recycled red brick, white mortar, black trim, white render, Surfmist roof. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Recycled red brick, white mortar, black door, white trim, black veranda, white render, Surfmist roof. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Recycled red brick, white mortar, black door, white trim, black veranda, black render, Surfmist roof. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Recycled red brick, white mortar, black trim, white render, Woodland grey roof. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Recycled red brick, white mortar, white trim, white render, Woodland grey roof, black door. Re: 7.6 acres in NE Victoria. 14Mar 08, 2016 12:28 pm Also, we bought some trees! I took my lovely mum to come choose them with me. We probably spent a good 3 hours wandering around the nursery... and Googling as we went, lol. The list of trees we ended up with: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The trees themselves Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I also bought 25 hi-bred poplars as an alternative to conifers. Not only that, but we have a neighbour on the 5 acre block next to us! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: 7.6 acre build in NE Victoria. 17Apr 08, 2016 9:12 am Dani_84 Hi there, looks fantastic. I love your plan too. How is it all going? Would love an update!! We're just making sure all our ducks are in a row, but almost nearly kind of sort of ready to sign on the house! Re: 7.6 acre build in NE Victoria. 18Apr 08, 2016 10:20 am Looks great! Looking forward to following your build. We are also horsey people building our forever home in the nsw hunter valley. Good luck with your build! Re: 7.6 acre build in NE Victoria. 20May 04, 2016 11:37 am No real updates yet, guys. I'm just fretting over bricks. Eco bricks? (recycled) - too expensive to lay. Sandstock bricks from PGH seem to be in the same ballpark price, too. Never knew I'd be so uptight about bricks! Building Standards; Getting It Right! Hi all, My neighbour has built his 15m long garage on our boundary. It was agreed as part of the planning permit that the wall must be in exposed recycled brick. For some… 0 11000 So it looks like we finally have some movement on site! Definitely later than expected, but I'll take any progress at this point. I'll drop by over the weekend to get… 5 29213 1 4651 |