Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jun 20, 2019 4:52 pm Hi guys, first-time poster here! Building my first house, still in very early stages - Received our masterplan's about one week ago and noticed a heap of things which we didn't expect/think of (young/first home builders, didn't get much guidance from our building consultant) Anyway moving forward we are paying a $500 fee to amend the plans and make changes. I'll post an image below. -So far we have: - Moved the manhole to garage. - Changed ensuite window from 21-06 to 12-06. - Changed study windows to 21-06 x 2 rather than one bigger window. I'm still not 100% sure if I'm happy with my window sizing, feel free to drop your opinions below. 06-27 for bed 1, I'm worried its too big and getting a blind will be a bit harder. Alfresco window tempted to drop back from 24 wide to 21. any suggestions on this My next issue is something pretty silly that I didn't even think about before getting the first set of plans drawn up. Bed 2 and 3, no built-in robes - Not sure how I missed this With windows at 06-24, it would be very hard to fit a robe in without it looking stupid since it would come all the way up to the window, it will look out of place. The builder has told me we can't make windows smaller due to light and ventilation regulations, I've spoken to my local council and they have said otherwise and I should be able to fit 06-18 without any issues - passed this on to the builder so hopefully its all okay. I've attached a second image which shows what I'm thinking to do for my built-in robes - Have the provision put in place, a bulkhead and make sure windows installed into correct place so it will be centre with the robes in the room, This brings me to my questions and point of this thread. 1. With bulkhead what size drop is recommended and does this cost much? 2. My idea for the layout with robes in the second image, is this a good way to fit it in? any other recommendations? I want to utilize the space well. 3. What should expect to pay for a built-in robe, should I get the builder to do just the doors and do the insides after hand over, or do the whole lot after hand over? I'm very new to this so go easy on me lol Feel free to post any suggestions below Thanks in advance! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Built in robes 2Jun 20, 2019 5:15 pm adrian20 Hi guys, first-time poster here! Building my first house, still in very early stages - Received our masterplan's about one week ago and noticed a heap of things which we didn't expect/think of (young/first home builders, didn't get much guidance from our building consultant) Anyway moving forward we are paying a $500 fee to amend the plans and make changes. I'll post an image below. -So far we have: - Moved the manhole to garage. - Changed ensuite window from 21-06 to 12-06. - Changed study windows to 21-06 x 2 rather than one bigger window. I'm still not 100% sure if I'm happy with my window sizing, feel free to drop your opinions below. 06-27 for bed 1, I'm worried its too big and getting a blind will be a bit harder. Alfresco window tempted to drop back from 24 wide to 21. any suggestions on this My next issue is something pretty silly that I didn't even think about before getting the first set of plans drawn up. Bed 2 and 3, no built-in robes - Not sure how I missed this With windows at 06-24, it would be very hard to fit a robe in without it looking stupid since it would come all the way up to the window, it will look out of place. The builder has told me we can't make windows smaller due to light and ventilation regulations, I've spoken to my local council and they have said otherwise and I should be able to fit 06-18 without any issues - passed this on to the builder so hopefully its all okay. I've attached a second image which shows what I'm thinking to do for my built-in robes - Have the provision put in place, a bulkhead and make sure windows installed into correct place so it will be centre with the robes in the room, This brings me to my questions and point of this thread. 1. With bulkhead what size drop is recommended and does this cost much? 2. My idea for the layout with robes in the second image, is this a good way to fit it in? any other recommendations? I want to utilize the space well. 3. What should expect to pay for a built-in robe, should I get the builder to do just the doors and do the insides after hand over, or do the whole lot after hand over? I'm very new to this so go easy on me lol Feel free to post any suggestions below Thanks in advance! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Given that you have a huge pantry and a separate store room could some of that space be given over to a wardrobe alcove for the adjacent bedroom? One thing I would definitely change in your design is to move The laundry next to the study. The bathroom and toilet are a long way from the bedrooms and living areas so you could move both a bit closer by swapping with the laundry. Good luck with your plans. 👍 Re: Built in robes 4Jun 20, 2019 8:45 pm Mess around with the Ikea Wardrobe builder. It's fun and you can see what you can fit into your space. Then take that to someone who does robes (Luckily, the company who did my Kitchen, also does Robes and Cabinetry.) Mines a fraction smaller, we got $800 back from the builder and paid $2300 to the Kitchen company to custom build our Robe. Re: Built in robes 5Jun 21, 2019 11:22 am For the bulkhead size, find a cabinet-maker (or whatever the correct term is for people who make the WIR's) and ask what they can do. Some can only do doors to a height of ~1800mm, others can go way larger, it depends on their suppliers and what type of doors you want (we used sliding because it takes less space plus one of them can be a mirror). The less bulkhead you have, the more easily accessed storage for rarely-used stuff. We deleted all our relatively-useless built-ins, they were just a single hanger-rail & a stack of 4 drawers whereas we had 3m to 3.5m of wardrobe width to play with. I was surprised they gave us back close to $1500 per room, given how simplistic it was. We ended-up paying Betta ~$17k to do the cabinetry but it was a LOT of cabinetry; soft-close drawers, couple of sets of drawers in each built-in (4 bedrooms with built-ins), large pantry with sliding doors, sliding glass or mirror doors to 4 beds, quite a large WIR with 8 metre-wide 'modules' & 3 of those being metre-wide drawers, and a neat under-stair set of drawers & triangular cupboard doors & built-in wine-rack inside the under-stairs cupboard. Oh, and one neat thing we had them do which didn't cost us much, and which you might consider if you've got kids of studying age in any of those bedrooms, is a built-in desk which I think looks quite neat (and have been using myself a lot of late): Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Built in robes 6Jun 25, 2019 4:57 pm Hi guys thanks for the replys Just an update I asked the builder about how it works with them doing the built ins This is the response I got 'We add a NIB wall at the end of your provision and the future robe installer will complete the bulkhead. The $800 includes the robe, shelf & rail, as well as the NIB wall ending.' If he's talking about a nib wall does this mean the robe wouldn't be the full length of the wall? Also having the bulkbead done later does this make sense? Wouldn't having it done with the build look neater with the cornices etc? 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