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Firstly congrats on taking the building plunge. Remember to take plenty of pictures of the selections you make, that way you have a reference to look back on. Cost everything up, even things you think may be out of your budget, sometimes prices can be a lot less or unfortunately alot more than you think. Then once you have all the costings you can cull to suit your budget.
Check out the things you forget post on here, there are some great tips and must have things that can easily be missed. My last tip is take your time to choose, don't let them rush you.
Good luck, looking forward to seeing your selections

[quote="ms_prez"]Firstly congrats on taking the building plunge. Remember to take plenty of pictures of the selections you make, that way you have a reference to look back on. Cost everything up, even things you think may be out of your budget, sometimes prices can be a lot less or unfortunately alot more than you think. Then once you have all the costings you can cull to suit your budget.
Check out the things you forget post on here, there are some great tips and must have things that can easily be missed. My last tip is take your time to choose, don't let them rush you.
Good luck, looking forward to seeing your selections

Thanks for your advice and yes after reading all the posts on here I can see our pre start budget may be blown out tomorrow ? I'll try and put up some photos of our selections tomorrow

So Prestart went better than expected! We did get some bad news when we first arrived which was extra costs for our site works and for our portico as our block is on a slope but we ended up not spending a cent at pre start after taking out a lot of electrical that we're doing ourselves and flooring that we are also doing ourselves. Only upgraded a few things as we had quite a lot of things included in our initial contract. We upgraded our ensuite shower, the kitchen sink, bath tub and handle for the front door. Pretty happy with the result considering the amount I've read on here that people spend on pre start! I'll post some photos of our choices if I can figure out how haha

Posting to follow along as we are looking at building with HGWA and were also building the Amalfi. I think I saw that you're building in Dayton as well, we are just in whiteman edge. Look forward to following your build

Hey Jess, quick question, how did it go with the builder requesting you do your own electrical work? I am assuming you need to get in during the build to get all the electrical out of the way?

We're still umming and ahhing over what we should look at doing ourselves and what we should be doing through the builder. At the moment pretty much everything is through the builder.