Browse Forums Building A New House Re: KDR Customised Brighton Homes Jamieson 38Sep 04, 2020 7:00 pm Today was handover day. This almost went off the rails since the company forgot to send us the final invoice to pay and they must have cleared payment in hand before the keys are handed over. All sorted by this afternoon, thankfully! We have a lot to do now! The bare dirt around the block is going to be a problem until we can get some landscaping done. I have organised a landscaper but he's booked solid for the next couple of weeks. In the meantime a few pics. It really needs a wide angle lens to take meaningful pics in the rooms, but for what they are worth: The entry hallway from outside and inside: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Bed 2 and 3 joined into a shared area by taking out one robe. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The ensuite: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The main bathroom Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ And the most photogenic room, a seat and a couple of drinks in the living room after handover: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I have a few thoughts on the whole process but I haven't got around to sorting them all out in my head yet. But just 20 weeks from levelling the site to handover was overall pretty painless. Re: KDR Customised Brighton Homes Jamieson 39Nov 01, 2020 7:45 am The structural part of the landscaping is now complete, we just have to start planting out! We found a few of the last Claypave pavers still available and decided to lay those down the side of the house for the main utility area. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The front has been turfed around some garden beds Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We considered a number of options to finish off between the alfresco and the retaining wall after it ended up higher than we expected. In the end the best solution seemed to be just extend the alfresco to the edge, so we got a big lump of concrete pumped in to fill in. We'll have to wait for it to cure and then tile it and add a glass balcony fence. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: KDR Customised Brighton Homes Jamieson 40Nov 01, 2020 8:50 am We might do something like that also, as we have a 1.7M retaining wall along the back at the easement! 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 8182 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 24787 |