Browse Forums Building A New House Re: WBA's House.. Clothesline installed.. new pics 2/8 14Sep 08, 2008 10:44 am Duminda Hi Andy, Welcome to the JGK Club My biggest gripe with your plan is the layout of the theatre room. Although it may be acceptable to you, it's not going to go down well should you decide to sell & upgrade at a later stage. You also don't have an informal living/ family area, which is probably more important than a formal lounge for a house of this size. I originally was going to have the lounge as the theatre room but really would prefer a closed off room that is not a walkway. And didn't want to close off the lounge with another wall. I hate open plan living hence why I made the lounge seperate to the meals. The lounge will actually be the informal living area. If I sell the house then the theatre room could be turned into a study/rumpus.. hence the reason for the double doors so I can open it up into the meals area. I love the idea of stealing 10cm here and there for the theatre room to be lined up with the kitchen bench.. I will get my ruler out tonight and see where I can steal it from.. maybe from the laundary and ensuite/WIR. Re: WBA's House.. Clothesline installed.. new pics 2/8 15Sep 10, 2008 4:22 pm I agree that you probably need both a separate lounge and a family/meals area.
I would do the following: -Put the 'Theatre' where Bed 2 is now, and slide the bedrooms, bath etc down to the end. Make the theatre your lounge room as well. -Swap the kitchen and the lounge room (so that the kitchen is near the garage). Then the lounge and meals area can be one big open space, which will get heaps of lovely sunlight from the North. It will also be easier to get the shopping into the kitchen from the garage this way. Re: WBA's House.. Clothesline installed.. new pics 2/8 16Sep 14, 2008 5:06 pm Well we signed our contracts today. Most of the plan remained the same apart from some changes to some windows and the electrical plan.
All in all we are pretty happy with the speed. We first walked into the JG King display at Mernda Villages 6 weeks ago and today we signed our contracts.. have rsi from signing all those bloody pages!!! Site costs still have to be confirmed and will probably be about $2000 more as the fall was slightly more than he thought. He had $4000 as provisional. Now we should be able to get the finance changed to unconditional and can now settle the land as soon as we can get a start date.... Re: WBA's House.. Clothesline installed.. new pics 2/8 18Sep 15, 2008 8:53 am 6 weeks... the speed is unbelievable... well done!! Blog - http://clageonewhouse.blogspot.com/ Building Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=10886&hilit=milan I am in, with my husband and my beautiful bunny Re: WBA's House.. Clothesline installed.. new pics 2/8 19Sep 15, 2008 10:24 am wakeboardandy All in all we are pretty happy with the speed. We first walked into the JG King display at Mernda Villages 6 weeks ago and today we signed our contracts.. have rsi from signing all those bloody pages!!! That's brilliant ... ours took 6 months Re: WBA's House.. Clothesline installed.. new pics 2/8 20Sep 15, 2008 3:29 pm Duminda That's brilliant ... ours took 6 months We are lucky to have got a really good sales consultant that is very knowledgable in all aspects of the building process!!! The unit normally clips into a metal plate screwed to the wall, either plate is not flush, or unit not hooked in and could be hanging from the pipes partly, either might… 2 16271 Good on you for having a go I am the opposite of DIY (so will pay a builder) - our vibe is industrial/simple so current thinking is 150mm concrete and then internally is… 3 3194 Yes well there solution is to blame everyone else while I a 65yr old woman with major medical problems have to just continue to boil water and wash myself in a bucket… 2 16323 |