Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building the Chifley with Rawson 4Apr 20, 2013 1:28 pm Modified Fernside 38 Rawson Homes Blog: http://www.thehousethatmatandjenbuilt.blogspot.com Build Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=60501 Re: Building the Chifley with Rawson 6Apr 20, 2013 4:05 pm Built the Seaview 36 with Rawson Homes - Read about it on my blog http://lamaisondemorgan.blogspot.com.au/ Re: Building the Chifley with Rawson 10Apr 20, 2013 8:58 pm Modified Fernside 38 Rawson Homes Blog: http://www.thehousethatmatandjenbuilt.blogspot.com Build Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=60501 Re: Building the Chifley with Rawson 14Apr 21, 2013 11:48 am Built the Seaview 36 with Rawson Homes - Read about it on my blog http://lamaisondemorgan.blogspot.com.au/ Re: Building the Chifley with Rawson 15Apr 21, 2013 2:47 pm VandM Melspring...we would want to extend the garage and insert a wallk in pantry as well. My husband is a cyclist and we need plenty of storage for bikes etc so we would like a bigger garage if we could (depending on the size of our land of course). How big will your pantry be? Where will it be in the kitchen? I love the butlers pantry in the Seaview and would like to see if we could add one to the Chifley somehow (depending on cost Hi VandM, our walk in pantry entrance is next to the oven. You walk through what was the pantry to the walk in pantry. The size is 4170 x 1580. We removed the pantry doors and added a RIMM 820 door. To add in the extra space in the garage is great but is a bit expensive (however after colours and electrical it is all relative.... ). Hope you enjoy looking at the Chifley at Gledwood Hills. It is lovely! Re: Building the Chifley with Rawson 16Apr 21, 2013 3:03 pm VandM We are heading to the display village at Gledswood Hills today to check out the Chifley! Are you planning on building a 42 or 37? Only asking because there's a 37 in Canberra; it's a bit of a hike, but not that far in the house-buying scheme of things! And the 37 has quite a different feel to the 42, more light gets into the stairwell upstairs because that's the back of the house in the 37, whereas the 42 has bedrooms behind that so feels quite a lot bigger upstairs while not as "light" downstairs. Re: Building the Chifley with Rawson 17Apr 21, 2013 4:51 pm Thanks for that info Melspring! Forg, we are looking at the 42 as we want the upstairs lounge area. The Chifley is very nice and it is funny you say that as I was expecting it to feel a little lighter. It is a beautiful house, however, I think I may actually be leaning towards the Seaview. I think my partner is leaning towards the Chifley... I like the L shape to the living and alfresco areas in the Seaview as well as the slightly bigger feel to the bedrooms. The Seaview also has the butlers pantry already. I remember the feel of the main bed to be a little more luxurious in the Seaview as it is a bit bigger and has that great bath and mosaic tiled wall! (which I am sure costs a lot of $$$). I do still like the Chifley a lot though and will see how I feel when we look at the Seaview again. We have plenty of time to think about it as we haven't even bought the land yet. The house we choose will probably depend on the land we can get. I should also add that we did look at a lot of other houses today by other builders but all bar one other came close! Re: Building the Chifley with Rawson 18Apr 21, 2013 8:55 pm Love this topic! We were just out at Gledswood Hills today again looking at the Chifley 42. It probably is my favourite out of all our shortlist (and Rawson has such a great rep too). Will come down to price after tender I guess. Mr Brown Bear is toying with the idea of deleting that back ensuite upstairs and trying to extend the bedroom space a little and maybe a little more linen space (you can never have too much linen space!) Will also merge that tiny main bathroom toilet space into the main bathroom itself. Its a bit pokey and no room really to fit a hand basin in there. Not much point in having a separate toilet if you can't wash your hands. I want to make the kitchen and dining room bigger, and join the front two living areas downstairs together to form a large lounge area. In the kitchen I'll probably add a wall separating the dining room which will allow me to put in large corner pantry and some overheads on that side. I'll do a traditional U shaped kitchen with servery window to outside. Well, these are our plans anyway. We are settling on our land within a week so have to ramp up our plans to go to tender. In a rental at the moment and are 1 month into our 12 month lease, so really want to move straight into our new home afterwards. I particularly like the 42 as it has the lounge area upstairs (thinking extra TV area for gaming etc. when kids are older). The roof line out the back is minimal as well, so the back windows aren't too disrupted in size. Houses with extended roof line have tiny up high windows as the roof line cuts into their available area. Haven't explained that too well sorry, just tired from our long trip today I guess. Re: Building the Chifley with Rawson 19Apr 21, 2013 11:04 pm Mrs Brown Bear, great to hear yet another person considering Rawson. I am loving the modifications that people are suggesting, it is really giving me some good ideas! Can't wait to see how your plans eventuate! Re: Building the Chifley with Rawson 20Apr 22, 2013 7:26 am MrsBB I think that you will be hard pressed to move into your new house in less than a year. We signed our tender with Rawson at the beginning of June last year. We got through the admin phase in 136 days (a lot have taken up to 200 days) and a Rawson two storey house has a 40 week contract. Our build contract ends beginning of August and we will be pretty close to that date. Good luck with your searching. We wanted a 5 bedroom house with a study as well and by adding extra space onto the back of the fernside we have made it 43sq. Modified Fernside 38 Rawson Homes Blog: http://www.thehousethatmatandjenbuilt.blogspot.com Build Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=60501 Just started the Build process for Chifley 42 with Rawson homes, will keep you all posted with the Build progress. 0 2463 go upvc window frames ensure insulation under colorbond. not just sarking, lighter color roof also not sure if you have seen this viewtopic.php?t=5823 last couple of pages… 4 110574 |