Browse Forums Building A New House Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley QLD 21May 20, 2017 6:11 pm Builder does that I believe, there was no upfront cost for us. Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley QLD 22May 20, 2017 7:31 pm Love your design.. can't wait to see its progress. i bet its a very cool feeling knowing that noone else in your estate will be like yours! We are still going through the house plan process, and running behind as our land has already registered.... Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley QLD 23May 20, 2017 9:04 pm gr8ly Love your design.. can't wait to see its progress. i bet its a very cool feeling knowing that noone else in your estate will be like yours! We are still going through the house plan process, and running behind as our land has already registered.... Its a good feeling We were lucky enough to buy a block that had already been registered for a while. Have you picked a builder or still looking at designs? Where are you going to be building? Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley QLD 24May 20, 2017 10:26 pm allblaqk Its a good feeling We were lucky enough to buy a block that had already been registered for a while. Have you picked a builder or still looking at designs? Where are you going to be building? We have chosen to go with Valeco, as they do custom designs as well . And building in Ellendale estate - Upper Kedron. its actually been stressful so far - probably because i hadnt really prepared myself for how much there is to consider in a build. Can't wait to get the working drawings so i can move forward.. the longer i read stuff on these forums and more i want to change on my plan, therefore increasing the price on my already exceeded budget lol. Once i received our revised plans, i'll eventually start a thread here too. Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley QLD 25May 20, 2017 11:29 pm gr8ly We have chosen to go with Valeco, as they do custom designs as well . And building in Ellendale estate - Upper Kedron. its actually been stressful so far - probably because i hadnt really prepared myself for how much there is to consider in a build. Can't wait to get the working drawings so i can move forward.. the longer i read stuff on these forums and more i want to change on my plan, therefore increasing the price on my already exceeded budget lol. Once i received our revised plans, i'll eventually start a thread here too. Awesome, can't wait to see your thread! I have heard of Valeco, I will have to look into them. These forums are super valuable in terms of preparing you for whats to come but I agree, it makes you want more and i'm always changing my mind now! Hopefully things start moving quickly for you Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley QLD 26May 23, 2017 10:21 pm Husband has been going down to the block after work every day so far (hes nuts!) and snapped some photos today. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Slab should be down by the end of the week. He wanted to go again tonight to show me, and it was pretty cool standing at the top of the driveway, mentally mapping out where all the rooms will be. Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley QLD 27May 24, 2017 1:32 pm allblaqk Husband has been going down to the block after work every day so far (hes nuts!) and snapped some photos today. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Slab should be down by the end of the week. He wanted to go again tonight to show me, and it was pretty cool standing at the top of the driveway, mentally mapping out where all the rooms will be. How exciting can't wait to see a pic of that slab down! Lol I go nearly every night after I've finished work I'm one of the crazies Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley QLD 28May 25, 2017 12:41 am Looks like little sprouts of house with those pipes sticking out... haha. Let's grow that 'house tree'! Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley QLD 29May 25, 2017 10:13 pm ruraldoc Looks like little sprouts of house with those pipes sticking out... haha. Let's grow that 'house tree'! Haha, I love that! Grow House, GROW!! Fleebea, I generally don't get home until 8.30pm or so by that time I just want to get home and have dinner Luckily hubby can take all my photos for me, since he finishes between 2-4. He's gone every day, I dont think its nuts really, its nice that he wants to keep an eye on it Had some random guy going through our site collecting rocks etc. Weirdo Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Slab should go down tomorrow Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley QLD 30May 26, 2017 10:53 am Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley QLD 31May 26, 2017 10:56 am Woop woop How exciting!!! Congratulations!!! I bet you can't wait to get out there now and see it Looking forward to seeing more pics Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley QLD 32May 26, 2017 10:57 am fleabee86 Woop woop How exciting!!! Congratulations!!! I bet you can't wait to get out there now and see it Looking forward to seeing more pics Can't wait! Except I know its going to feel tiny, lol Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley QLD 33May 26, 2017 3:33 pm allblaqk fleabee86 Woop woop How exciting!!! Congratulations!!! I bet you can't wait to get out there now and see it Looking forward to seeing more pics Can't wait! Except I know its going to feel tiny, lol Lol only to start with Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley - NOW WITH SL 34May 26, 2017 6:27 pm SLAB Rear of the house - Alfresco Area Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ 1 Front of the house - Theatre Room Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Front of the house - Garage Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The most beautiful Slab I have ever seen, so smooth! Interesting side note, found a copy of the lower house plan on the ground but they have actually extended the slab for the alfresco area to the eaves, which for us is 60cm - so bigger outdoor area I did notice they did not concrete the front porch so I will have to look over the plans and see what the deal is. And finally, found a $16 cake in coles reduced down to $1.60, so today was an awesome day all over! Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley - NOW WITH SL 35May 26, 2017 8:15 pm That's a good looking slab And BONUS more area is awesome!!! Lol cake Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley - NOW WITH SL 36May 26, 2017 9:06 pm Con-SLAB-ulations!! Enjoy the cake too! Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley - NOW WITH SL 37May 26, 2017 9:08 pm Haha thanks guys, not sure which one i'm more excited about! Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley - NOW WITH SL 38May 26, 2017 10:03 pm Ooooo nice slab! - B A vue of the pines on the Gold Coast forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87210 Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley - NOW WITH SL 39Jun 23, 2017 7:55 pm I've been super lazy with updates But, our build has been powering along finally after the week or two crappy weather. We have frames! Heres some pics, we visited today and its all done as far as I can tell, but we didn't take any photos. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: First Home - Custom Design in South Ripley - NOW WITH SL 40Jun 23, 2017 7:57 pm I'll take some photos tomorrow of the house again as we have none with all the second level and roof on. It looks awesome. The only thing I found is the master bedroom looks smaller than I would have liked. But we stood out on the balcony today and ahhhh so nice! Great view of the estate and the mountains behind. So calm and peaceful.
OOH, and the site next to us got cut during the week and has plumbing going in currently, that will be another double storey. So glad thats getting done while our is too, and not once we move in ideal house depends on the site and location as much as internal floor plan....what is the distance from the house to all four boundaries, where is north, describe your… 3 10175 Thanks NativeZen! I can't wait to start landscaping, though it's going to be a while away yet. No movement on site yet as of the weekend. Hoping to see some earthworks… 3 2148 Hi all, My first post, we are building a house and can’t decide the layout of the lounge room. We have a large N/W facing window and are wanting to have a wood slow… 0 11117 |