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Hi everyone, We just purchased a block of land in Capestone - Mango Hill and are deciding which builder to go with. We are leaning towards Bold as per recommendation from a friend (whose company is Bold's partner). We are very keen on floor plan Calypso 189 as the block is only 375m2 and we can only use 50% of the land for internal area. We are first home buyers and know nothing about building whatsoever (it is scaring the hell out of me:s). I have gone through some threads here and would love to hear any feedback/experience from any one who built/are building with Bold. We are quoted Coastal facade for $6700 incl cement render. However, I have read some comments that cement render is prone to cracking and high maintenance. I don't want to have render but my partner does. Having said that, the coastal facade might look really weird without rendering so I am very torn now. Any advice? Also, have any one seen a Coastal facade? Does it really look nice as in the picture they show? (I am not really impressed with the idea of painted RHS Steel posts and have no idea what they look like in real life as I haven't seen one). Here is the Calyso 189 floor plan. We are recommended to extend our Family area width by 300mm (from 3.3m to 3.6m) and alfresco area slab only by 500mm to make it look bigger. My partner said 300mm will not make any difference and thinking not to go ahead with the extension. I don't agree with that but I have no proof to convince him otherwise. Thoughts? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Mar-18 A few hiccups with bank valuation but finally got approved by another lender for the land. Now just wait for the final approval letter to submit before finace date and wait for the developer on the title rego. Some small issues with Bold after the color selection as we had to downgrade our package due to bank valuation. It was resolved pretty quickly thanks to the Sales Manager. The family room has to stay as it was. No more coastal facade and a few other things. Sad but there’s nothing we can do when we don’t have cash and rely on the bank to build. Color selection completed. Waiting for the revised tender to come back prob next week. Re: BOLD LIVING CALYPSO 189 - FIRST HOME - BRISBANE 4Feb 09, 2018 9:50 pm chrinee Hi daisy1989, have you been to BOLD'S Newport Display Home in Newport. It has a coastal facade and is gorgeous! Hi chrinee, Yes we have been there, twice indeed as we have been dealing with the CS in that office. How could I never notice that is coastal facade (banging my head to the wall). Thanks for the info. We will be there tmr to put down the initial deposit so will defo take a close look. Saw your selection in your topic. Very good choice. Not many people in homeone building with Bold so I am so glad that I found your topic Re: BOLD LIVING CALYPSO 189 - FIRST HOME - BRISBANE 6Feb 09, 2018 10:04 pm Re: BOLD LIVING CALYPSO 189 - FIRST HOME - BRISBANE 7Feb 09, 2018 11:29 pm daisy1989 how exciting! i've found this forum has helped a lot with things you wouldn't even consider. There are definitely lots of people building with bold on here. I extended the width of the house by about 10cm lol so i could even out the dimensions. Probably wont make a difference, but it makes me feel better. Re: BOLD LIVING CALYPSO 189 - FIRST HOME - BRISBANE 8Feb 10, 2018 6:49 am gr8ly @daisy1989 how exciting! i've found this forum has helped a lot with things you wouldn't even consider. There are definitely lots of people building with bold on here. I extended the width of the house by about 10cm lol so i could even out the dimensions. Probably wont make a difference, but it makes me feel better. Thanks gr8ly. We are scrolling thru all related topics to read tips and home owners beware etc. I have lost 1kg since we decided building already and that’s just 3 weeks :s This forum is awesome thanks to people like you being so helpful. Re: BOLD LIVING CALYPSO 189 - FIRST HOME - BRISBANE 9Feb 10, 2018 9:40 am hahha! daisy1989 i've put on like 5-10 kilos since this build.. i wish i lost weight instead! building literally becomes your life. But that's why these forums help, cause we are all in the same boat. So did you guys decide to extend in the end? Re: BOLD LIVING CALYPSO 189 - FIRST HOME - BRISBANE 10Feb 10, 2018 7:44 pm gr8ly hahha! daisy1989 i've put on like 5-10 kilos since this build.. i wish i lost weight instead! building literally becomes your life. But that's why these forums help, cause we are all in the same boat. So did you guys decide to extend in the end? Yes we did. My partner finally compromised on this one and I will let him upgrade the tile lol. No idea how much it will cost. We have tile for living area and carpet for bedrooms. The standard tiles are ceramic 45*45 but we think that size is quite small. Looking either to upgrade it to 60*60 or the timber-looking ones. We have $10k gift card to use on upgrades. Will need to use that money wisely. I think electrical upgrades will cost about $3-4k easily. Re: BOLD LIVING CALYPSO 189 - FIRST HOME - BRISBANE 11Feb 11, 2018 4:45 pm Hello Daisy, I found your thread great floor plan you have picked too. I do agree with Gr8ly about adding the space, it’s normally around $900 per m2 to add space under eave. (You will end up with a bulk head too) In saying that what is your block orientation? Have you got your disclosure plan? 450x450 tiles are a really good size, if you go to 600x600 tiles there is a upgrade cost and I think a lay cost. We went with the vinyl plank flooring at no extra charge Looking forward to seeing more Re: BOLD LIVING CALYPSO 189 - FIRST HOME - BRISBANE 12Feb 11, 2018 5:08 pm yep 600x600 porcelain tiles are definitely a lot more expensive. We are getting it and it's costing us a fortune.. as Tribe7 mentioned - because of the extra labour costs involved. i think polished concrete would have been cheaper. 450x450 is a good size if you can find a tile you like. your 10K gift-card will go really quickly haha! But get what you love! especially if you plan to live there a long time Re: BOLD LIVING CALYPSO 189 - FIRST HOME - BRISBANE 13Feb 11, 2018 5:22 pm Tribe7 Hello Daisy, I found your thread great floor plan you have picked too. I do agree with Gr8ly about adding the space, it’s normally around $900 per m2 to add space under eave. (You will end up with a bulk head too) In saying that what is your block orientation? Have you got your disclosure plan? 450x450 tiles are a really good size, if you go to 600x600 tiles there is a upgrade cost and I think a lay cost. We went with the vinyl plank flooring at no extra charge Looking forward to seeing more Thanks Tribe7. Our block faces north east. The driveway is on the west and the alfresco is on the east. We were thinking of going with vinyl plank as well but then changed our mind. Will see how much the numbers all add up at the end lol. We are quite tight on budget so will have to weigh up all options carefully. Re: BOLD LIVING CALYPSO 189 - FIRST HOME - BRISBANE 14Feb 11, 2018 5:25 pm gr8ly yep 600x600 porcelain tiles are definitely a lot more expensive. We are getting it and it's costing us a fortune.. as Tribe7 mentioned - because of the extra labour costs involved. i think polished concrete would have been cheaper. 450x450 is a good size if you can find a tile you like. your 10K gift-card will go really quickly haha! But get what you love! especially if you plan to live there a long time 100%. We plan to live there for at least 5-7 years until we can afford to move closer to the city. Will have to wait until the colour appointment to see how much it will all add up. I have learnt a great deal of self-control already lol Re: BOLD LIVING CALYPSO 189 - FIRST HOME - BRISBANE 15Feb 13, 2018 11:47 am Hey Daisy - will follow along your build. We will probably start to compile a list of rectifications closer to the 6 month mark - we are otherwise doing pretty well in our new place and I hope it all goes smoothly for you Let me know if you have any questions or if you think I could help with anything. Re: BOLD LIVING CALYPSO 189 - FIRST HOME - BRISBANE 16Mar 01, 2018 8:23 pm Got our colour appointment booked for 27th March Bold has been really good so far in communication. Now we just need to wait for the land to be available for bank valuation and soil test to see whether we can go ahead with this build. If the bank valuation comes back short, we're screwed Re: BOLD LIVING CALYPSO 189 - FIRST HOME - BRISBANE 20Sep 02, 2018 5:15 pm September-18 I have abandoned this post for a while. Have been so busy with work and finalising all the details for the contract. We second-guessed pretty much everything in our plan until the last minute before we sealed the deal. Who would have thought choosing the location for the hot water system would have caused too much drama and delayed the final working drawings by 2 weeks. Anyway, we were happy with its final location given the size of our house and our block. This week we had the frame on. We met with our SS for the first time and he was super duper nice. He is also very good at communication. He calls us every week to keep us informed of what’s coming next week so we can check the work out when we are on site. Can’t be happier. We have had a minor hiccup as any other build but the SS had quickly responded to it and assured us it will be rectified. We trust him and are not too fussed about it yet. There is another concern that just came up yesterday when we checked out the frame but not sure if it is actually a problem. We will contact our SS tomorrow and see what happens. I will let everyone know later. So far we are very happy with Bold and have not yet regretted anything with our choices. Hopefully this will carry on till the end of the build (high hope I know). A few photos of the slab and frame stage Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ So it looks like we finally have some movement on site! Definitely later than expected, but I'll take any progress at this point. I'll drop by over the weekend to get… 5 27289 I would be wary. Is you site demilished but nothing else done? Sounds like liquidity problems to me. Our builder did the same. 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