Browse Forums Building A New House Re: My KDR Metricon Hampshire - Liberty - 45 Melb 1444Feb 08, 2018 12:37 pm Build thread: Metricon Liberty 45 in Ryde, NSW Re: My KDR Metricon Hampshire - Liberty - 45 Melb 1453Feb 13, 2018 11:37 am Hi Dulie, thanks heaps. We’re in Brisbane (north/ north west). We’re at the very start of our journey so imagine a long way to go before we start building! Guess we’ll put everything in to our dream requests and start culling from there. Reading through everyone else’s journeys it seems that it’s not uncommon to spend $300-$400k above base price to match a display home! Re: My KDR Metricon Hampshire - Liberty - 45 Melb 1454Feb 13, 2018 2:32 pm RR80 Hi Dulie, thanks heaps. We’re in Brisbane (north/ north west). We’re at the very start of our journey so imagine a long way to go before we start building! Guess we’ll put everything in to our dream requests and start culling from there. Reading through everyone else’s journeys it seems that it’s not uncommon to spend $300-$400k above base price to match a display home! Yup you're pretty much spot on. Our base price was $380k 3 years ago, and by the time we were happy with everything the bill was in the $650k range. And we did a lot post hand over, would have easily gone over $700k if we did everything with Metricon. Re: My KDR Metricon Hampshire - Liberty - 45 Melb 1455Feb 13, 2018 2:32 pm RR80 Thanks so much for sharing that! We’re torn between the convenience of doing it all through Metricon at the time of the build or leaving what we can post build so this helps. Do you mind me asking how big your island bench is? And 20 or 40mm stone? Your house is so beautiful btw! Congrats on a great build. It’s 40mm. Just under 3M is length. It’s the longest you can have it without a join. Re: My KDR Metricon Hampshire - Liberty - 45 Melb 1456Feb 13, 2018 2:35 pm dulie Where abouts in QLD are you? I can share the mob that did most of our joinery post hand over. Wish we did even more post, would have saved us a bucket load. Agree with Dulie. After seeing how they do it I would do the bare minimum and do it post. I would even go to the point of getting them to do the cheap laminex for the areas that you have to do. i.e kitchen and island, then replace the doors post handover. Re: My KDR Metricon Hampshire - Liberty - 45 Melb 1457Feb 13, 2018 2:37 pm RR80 Hi Dulie, thanks heaps. We’re in Brisbane (north/ north west). We’re at the very start of our journey so imagine a long way to go before we start building! Guess we’ll put everything in to our dream requests and start culling from there. Reading through everyone else’s journeys it seems that it’s not uncommon to spend $300-$400k above base price to match a display home! Most of the display is 80-100% more than the base price. Just depends on you budget, amount of variations and customization to the floor plan. The site cost can also play a big part to your budget, we had to spend around $100K. Re: My KDR Metricon Hampshire - Liberty - 45 Melb 1459Feb 13, 2018 2:57 pm I probably used the word happy incorrectly. I should have said by the time the house was "complete". IE all joinery, mirrors, flooring, curtains, security screens, feature walls etc. Re: My KDR Metricon Hampshire - Liberty - 45 Melb 1460Feb 13, 2018 4:05 pm Thanks Renman. Our budget is probably sitting around 800k at the moment for a 50sq house plus pool and landscaping on top of that. Although we’ve paid our initial $1500 deposit, by the sounds of it, might be worth looking at smaller builders too. Appreciate all the advice - lots of food for thought. PS apologies for hijacking your thread!! We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 37143 The biggest challenge will be if you take out a loan and then run out of money - you'll have an incomplete security and lenders do not like this so you can get stuck.… 2 19105 Hi, I am looking into doing a KDR in Melbourne and am contemplating using Kialla Homes. I am looking for feedback on them from others who have built with them. 0 13444 |