Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 253May 21, 2018 9:34 am I walked past your place yesterday. Driveway looks great. Did your hubby do those brick garden beds himself. They are fantastic. Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 254May 21, 2018 1:46 pm bestspecials I walked past your place yesterday. Driveway looks great. Did your hubby do those brick garden beds himself. They are fantastic. Thanks! but nope, we paid someone 😉 We got in trouble from Oxmar - they sent us an email on Thursday telling us that the structures at the front of our property weren't approved under our original plans... so we're holding off completing until our plans are approved. Hopefully they wont ask us to remove them. Cant wait to drive on our driveway!!! We still have a week to go. Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 255May 21, 2018 2:08 pm Dylandbrooke bestspecials I walked past your place yesterday. Driveway looks great. Did your hubby do those brick garden beds himself. They are fantastic. Thanks! but nope, we paid someone 😉 We got in trouble from Oxmar - they sent us an email on Thursday telling us that the structures at the front of our property weren't approved under our original plans... so we're holding off completing until our plans are approved. Hopefully they wont ask us to remove them. Cant wait to drive on our driveway!!! We still have a week to go. The brick garden beds look terrific. Are you getting the same guy to do the steps in between? Are you rendering them yourself? I can't see them asking you to remove them as they look amazing and very up market. So much better than a timber border and a few plants. Can I get the contact details of the person who did your gardens. We are looking for some quotes at the moment. I especially like the red dressing gown curtain at the front of the house. LOL!! Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 256May 21, 2018 2:25 pm The brick garden beds look terrific. Are you getting the same guy to do the steps in between? Are you rendering them yourself? I can't see them asking you to remove them as they look amazing and very up market. So much better than a timber border and a few plants. Can I get the contact details of the person who did your gardens. We are looking for some quotes at the moment. I especially like the red dressing gown curtain at the front of the house. LOL!![/quote] Our concreter is going to do our steps for us once the rendering is complete. The bricklayer is also rendering - we arent doing that ourselves. Thats exactly what i thought! Would Oxmar prefer that we have nothing but grass at the front? We'll still hold off completing until they approve. We asked for a stacked stone retaining wall at the front also, but they didnt approve and said we had to have painted concrete sleepers like the ones found in the rest of the estate 😔 Ohhhhhh dont talk to me about my red blanket curtain 😣😣😣😣😣😣😣 Diyonline blinds have somehow stuffed up our order and our shutters which were due to be ready in April, now wont be ready until June! A 14 week wait instead of the 6-8 weeks they said it would take!! How embarrassing are our front window coverings 🙈 Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 257May 21, 2018 2:29 pm bestspecials the bricklayer/renderer is Jamie Bisset from First point masonry +61416041163 Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 258May 21, 2018 2:43 pm The painted concrete sleepers are so boring. Especially painted green. The concrete sleepers are so boring and green. They are everywhere. You should just tell them you are doing raised garden beds, not a retaining wall. I still haven't decided what we are doing on the windows, but I know I need to get organised. I like your front window coverings, they are unique. It takes time to get everything together. June isn't too far away, just another 2 weeks. At least it isn't hot, so you don't really need to open the windows at the front. Are you loving your house?? Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 259May 21, 2018 3:04 pm bestspecials The painted concrete sleepers are so boring. Especially painted green. The concrete sleepers are so boring and green. They are everywhere. You should just tell them you are doing raised garden beds, not a retaining wall. I still haven't decided what we are doing on the windows, but I know I need to get organised. I like your front window coverings, they are unique. It takes time to get everything together. June isn't too far away, just another 2 weeks. At least it isn't hot, so you don't really need to open the windows at the front. Are you loving your house?? Tell me about it!!! The stacked stone looks so much nicer. Apparently a lady around the corner did a brick retaining wall and was told to remove it as our covernance states that only concrete sleepers are allowed 😐 zzzzz! Our shutters are due to arrive on Wednesday on a container, and then they're meant to go through customs and be couriered up to Brisbane. I made a big complaint, and they refunded our install fee of around $500 - so i cant complain about that! I do love my house!!! Its so nice. But still so much to do. Our pool gets dug tomorrow 🤗 so thats mega exciting!!! Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 260May 21, 2018 9:41 pm thats so annoying about the shutters! at least they have refunded you the install fee. I think we will be living with some random sheeting up on the window for a bit too. We havent really worked out what we want for ours yet. Theres so much to do after handover and i've been getting so anxious about it all We spent close to 2 years in a process with TA. 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