Building the Drysdale 30

I love the colours used in the kitchen and bathroom of the Drysdale in Point Cook. Do you know yet what the tile and laminate colours are?

Oh wow - so jealous!! I LOVE the layout of your home - congratulations and I hope the time flies by to construction.

OOooooOOooooOoooo..... very nice. Thanks for sharing

We went to Hopetoun yesterday - we haven't been in since before Christmas. They've changed the colours available for window frames - White birch and Dune are now available in the lifestyle range - Primrose is no longer available at all (for any of the ranges) Surfmist and Paperbark are only available in the prestige range now. So we will probably go with White Birch for the windows.





Not 100% decided on our brick (typical me!!!) - now tossing up b/n Jarrah and Rouge (leaning more towards Rouge atm)




Our land is coming along well. We got the plans for the crossovers this week and need to have requested change of side (if we want it changed) by March the 1st - so hopefully that means it's not too far away from the roads going in.

We have our tender appointment tomorrow. We will finally find out how much it will cost to upgrade the kitchen. I'm actually amazed that it has taken weeks (yes weeks!!! - as in I asked at the start of December) to give us a quote to up-grade the kitchen from standard kitchen cupboard doors to the colonial style. Our SC was going to get back to us, when we were appointed our BC before Christmas, I asked her and she said she was waiting for the estimations people to let her know. Surely it's a matter of putting "Drysdale" and "Colonial Square" into a database and there you go! It's not like we are changing the layout or anything in the kitchen - it would take less time to actually make the kitchen that what it has taken to find out how much it costs.





Certainly hope the nicer doors will fit in our budget! I've always wanted nice kitchen cupboard doors. Our current home has the standard cheap white laminate that is chipping in places and is almost 15 years old.

We have sent several emails to our BC requesting quotes and such for different items over the past few weeks and in the email we got on Friday she said that they'll have those prices for us at our tender meeting on Monday. It would have been nice to have them before hand so we know before we go what to expect.

Today we had our colour and electrical appointments.

Really pleased with how it's all coming together.


Exterior Colours:

Bricks: Boral Rouge
Windows: White Birch
Feature Render: Dune
Roof, gutters, facia, downpipes: Woodland Grey
Garage Door: Dune

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Internal Colours:

Walls: Lushious White
Trim: First Snow

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Kitchen:

The picture below isn't a good indicator of the colours - they really do go together 'in real life!'

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Bench: Osprey Caesar Stone 20mm bench and 40mm island with waterfall edge - nice!!!
Laminex: Parchment (waiting on the price for profile doors in satin finish)
Glass splashback: Limed White (Starfire glass)
Bench in Pantry: {forgot to choose it! }


Bathrooms and Laundry:

Floor and Bathroom Tiles: Shell Matte Bianco Satin
Bathroom cupboard doors and benches: Laminex Palisander
Splashback and feature tiles: will be confirmed on the weekend at our tile appointment

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Flooring:

We haven't decided whether to go with the flooring package or not. While we like the look of the Bolero Timber Look Laminate Flooring (Rustic Coffee is our choice) we're not sure that we actually want a laminate flooring. I don't like the idea of how it can't get wet and I also don't like how it's clicky when you walk on it.

So we're looking at the Allura Vinyl Plank flooring that is available at Harvey Norman, and then will get carpet elsewhere. Hopefully the vinyl plank will come up on sale before handover. To save $ we'll install it ourselves (it's really easy to DIY and it certainly is within our skill ability to do it).



Allure Vinyl Plank Flooring - Vintage Oak Cinnamon


Electrical Selections:

Basically we doubled the number of power points, threw in a few extra lights, added in some LED down lights and added some two way switches. We are putting a power point inside each of the vanities (handy for rechargeable shavers and toothbrushes, gets them off the bench), one in the broom cupboard (for the dust buster) as well as three in the pantry. We certainly didn't do anything extravagant and will put in our exterior lights after handover (they will be wired up and ready to go).



Land:

The land is coming along in leaps and bounds! So exciting! They've got most of the gutters in now. Hopefully it won't be too long!

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Yay! It's coming along so quick. Gorgeous Street Lights!

Still are being told settlement on the land is July. Grrrrrr.

We were originally told that "settlement will be April/May, worst case scenario June" - they've only had a couple of inclement days so there's no reason why they should now be saying July esp as it seems like only the roads, footpaths and crossovers are to go in - every time we go past there's always work going on (apart from on Sundays). Maybe they don't want to settle till after the parkland is all finished off - who knows. Maybe it's just the agent being ...... well I've been taught not to say anything if you can't say anything nice.

Lol. Thanks! Your colours are very nice too. Look forward to seeing it come together for you!

Hope you don't have to wait too much longer for registration - your estate looks lovely! We are building the Drysdale 27 with Eden Brae in South West Sydney (very very similar layout). Just got registered last week after a 4-5 month delay It's a beautiful house isn't it!?