Byford Build!

Thankyou! didnt even realise it wasnt showing!

Good luck with pre-start!

We've had many things we wish we'd included.... but fairly specific to us so not sure they would be much help! Stuff like the plinth in the kitchen running underneath our integrated dishwasher, a bermuda tile insert drain in the laundry rather than the chrome one, putting in a microwave recess cupboard. All little things that aren't dealbreakers but we are not prepared to pay the $250 variation to get sorted!

Finance approval wasn't what held us up, it was the building permit. So from building permit to slab down was 2 weeks.

Yes that's right. So you'll do pre-start and then they'll send off to the Council for 'Council Approval' that takes 2 weeks, then once they have that back they'll apply to the Council for a 'Building Permit' that takes another 2 weeks.

So you need Building Permit and Unconditional Finance approval, then you'll be good to go!

Uh i see! really hope it all flows through, thanks! cant wait till i can upload more !

Best of luck KD1sthome, we went through Keystart and they were really good on their turn arounds.

The critical path that we found was getting the final plans and contract signed for Keystart to review for final finance approval.

Once you have finance approval, and the building permit, every thing seems to fly through from our experience.

finally had our pre start and we couldnt be happier! got all the things we want and still came in under budget!
we had to change quite a few things in regards to colours though but in the end we are still very happy!

exterior paint colours are:
main render- Dune Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

 this shows the new flooring, new zinc benchtops and also the new laundry and kitchen splash back! :)Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share


framing- monument
roof, gutters, contract render: Basalt
garage: cosmopolitan style & Basalt

We ended up having to change our flooring because when we went into trevors carpets we were told the wrong selection! i cant remeber the new name of the boards but ill attach a photo

We also changed: kitchen bench top from crystallite to "zinc" &
laundry benchtop from crystallite to laminate polar white
& the kitchen/laundry splash back from vento white , we changed to a shinier back cant remember name but ill upload a photo.

Changed/upgraded
- Stone cladding to front elevation ($961.00)\
- Upgrade electric meter box to have a lock with viewing point ($76)
- hiline window to theatre in lieu of 25cx1410 window
- Delete 11c x7.5 window to family
- add 25c x 2410 window to family
- upgrade to double rebated timber frame to front door ($29)
- upgrade front door to PMAD104 ($505)
- provide zanda mace door handles throughout in lieu of standard ($255)
- provide gold foam underlay to theatre & master room ($150)
- add additional tiling to kitchen splashback to underside of overhead and returns ($26)
- change standard mixer in kitchen to vito bertoni ($109)
- relocate washing machine taps to inside laundry cabinet
- provide 2x zoe kyra insert basins to ensuite ($170)
- provide x2vito bertoni rainfall shower heads to ensuite ($974)
- provide additional feature strip to ensuite ($76)
- provide semi framless shower screen to ensuite ($392)
- provide soft closing doors throughout

this one ?
there is about 900mm around the island bench, i think it will be fine (well i hope so!)
this isnt the after pre start floor plan; although we only changed the window locations and heights.  Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

Yeah the games room we have purposely made larger so that it can be the "man cave/pool room" so it needed to be larger to fit a pool table and possibly a bar so i had to give up some of the family space which i didn't mind as i didn't think we would utilise it much due to having the theatre room too.

Bit late on the reply here so might be too late for you! But a couple of thoughts from my experience:
- didn't check the depth of our wardrobes so the standard IKEA wire baskets won't fit (by 5mm). So work out if there any off-the-shelf type products you want to use in wardrobes/cupboards/rooms and make sure the dimensions work. We put in IKEA Pax wardrobes into our master WIR and luckily it JUST fits, so well that it looks custom. Luck not good planning!
- same as above in the kitchen. there are so many cool drawer inserts / baskets etc but the dimensions of my cupboards don't work
- double check the location of light switches, making sure there are two/three way switches where need be
- we added a little extra width to our garage but no extra length. bit annoying with my massive car (3 kids!!).
- can't see the orientation of your house, but we added a highlight window on the side of our corner kids bedroom, and it adds a heap of extra natural light. The room originally had just a small window. Our builder didn't charge any extra for a window instead of bricks.

Good luck!