Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Oct 28, 2015 10:06 pm Hi everyone,
I have been a big time stalker and only just recently made my own user to talk on people's posts. I have to say there are a lot of people on here building absolute beautiful homes and hopefully we will be able to achieve the same. Anyway, our land is ready around the end of December early January and we can't wait to start building. Our house plans are below if anyone is interested, otherwise I will just continue to update as everything comes along. Re: The Village Townsville 2Oct 29, 2015 3:15 pm Here is our house plans of what we are thinking of building. It would be awesome if anyone wants to give us some feedback on what might need changing or needs a tweak etc etc Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: First home builder Townsville 4Nov 01, 2015 9:06 am Hi Wilson and welcome! Looks like you've taken as much advantage of North as you can having your lounge and master that way. Only suggestion I would make is to have a door between master and ensuite unless I've read it wrong. Looking forward to following your build, nice mock up of your house too. Custom build Northern NSW viewtopic.php?f=31&t=72217 Re: First home builder Townsville 5Nov 01, 2015 9:29 am Thanks TraceyWayne and Bank for the positive comments. Tracey with the door to the ensuite we thought about initially putting one there, but then we decided to put one on the toilet and thought that it would be nice to see the mirror/basins. Can I ask why you think we should put a door on? Is it because of light, or do most people just want doors there? Re: First home builder Townsville 6Nov 01, 2015 9:39 am Thinking more of steam, water versus flooring and maybe cause my OH prefers the floor to the clothes hamper haha. Take your point about the toilet door though. I don't know but many on here have regretted not having a door. Maybe do a quick search, either way your home looks great. What flooring were you thinking? Custom build Northern NSW viewtopic.php?f=31&t=72217 Re: First home builder Townsville 8Nov 01, 2015 11:33 am Under the stairs I think Custom build Northern NSW viewtopic.php?f=31&t=72217 Re: First home builder Townsville 9Nov 01, 2015 1:47 pm Building4my3tots You know we thought of that and that is why we put a cavity slider into the WIR. But why on earth we did we not think of that into our bedroom I have no idea. Thankyou for that as I think we will definitely do that now. As for the flooring, well ..... I would love to have timber floors to go with our beautiful open timber stairs, but the wife wants tiles as she thinks we will have too much timber if we want timber decking outside as well. Very hard decision but I think we all know who will give in and that will be me haha I will load up some more pictures of our stair design and such Re: First home builder Townsville 10Nov 01, 2015 1:49 pm Sorry that post was meant for Tracey And yes our laundry is accessed via our garage Re: First home builder Townsville 11Nov 01, 2015 2:02 pm I'm very wary of storage, you don't have much storage space, how big is your land? Can you go bigger if budget permits? viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75739&p=1299716#p1299716 Re: First home builder Townsville 12Nov 01, 2015 2:05 pm Remember house design is what works for you so try to imagine living in the spaces. Is your house from a display? As to too much timber we have wooden stairs, bamboo floors and spotted gum decking. Have a very neutral palate in lexicon half walls/ceilings/architraves & skirts. It looks awesome! Haha good luck! Custom build Northern NSW viewtopic.php?f=31&t=72217 Re: First home builder Townsville 13Nov 01, 2015 4:06 pm Building4my3tots I'm very wary of storage, you don't have much storage space, how big is your land? Can you go bigger if budget permits? viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75739&p=1299716#p1299716 Yeah that is one of our concerns, but our block is very small and we want to pay this off fast so we are sticking to a budget. Re: First home builder Townsville 14Nov 01, 2015 11:31 pm Good idea sticking to your budget. I do agree with storage where possible. Are you having overheads in kitchen for example or cabinet above vanity in bathroom. Often these things don't add heaps to the build but increase storage. Good on you, building your first home is fun! Custom build Northern NSW viewtopic.php?f=31&t=72217 Re: First home builder Townsville 15Nov 02, 2015 2:02 pm Looks great Wilson nice and compact and no wasted space as a couple of other have said storage would be the only other thing I would try to add. Even little things like adding floor to ceiling doors on the robes with an extra shelf. Our Build Thread - JG king Memphis Re: First home builder Townsville 16Feb 04, 2016 12:22 pm TraceyWayne Good idea sticking to your budget. I do agree with storage where possible. Are you having overheads in kitchen for example or cabinet above vanity in bathroom. Often these things don't add heaps to the build but increase storage. Good on you, building your first home is fun! Sorry for the late reply, I have just been really busy with work and the house design/plans. Anyway we will be starting to build in the next couple of weeks. I will upload updated plans and photos of our block of land etc etc We already paid for somfy motors for the blinds. The quote above was purely for “pre-wiring” so the blinds company can install the motors and blinds. That’s why we… 5 16278 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 27716 |