Building with Summit Homes, Corimbia Estate

PixelBit · Nov 29, 2013 1:57 am

Hi all,

Well we finally made a decision to do something crazy and build!
Never having built before and only having heard a few build experiences from few friends that have built, this whole thing was completely new and nerve racking for us.

On to look for land. We wanted to find a nice modern suburb NOR (I've been a NOR boy all my life) that was also family friendly. We almost had our hearts set on one of the coastal suburbs and whilst looking for display homes we stumbled across Corimbia Estate. We never considered this area before but we really were pleasantly surprised. After a few visits driving around the estate, it became more apparent this is where we want to be.

To cut a long story short, we got lucky on a 600sqm, 18m frontage rectangular(ish) LOT situated right across the road of park/playground/bushland. Titles at the time were seven months away, all good gave us plenty of time to find a builder and design of house.

We narrowed it down to 3 builders but ultimately we chose Summit Homes over a few factors, cost being one of them.

We are building The Monaco 248 and upgraded few things closer to Summits Monaco display home.

Our Floorplan

twiggens · Nov 29, 2013 10:19 am

Yaaay you started a thread!!
Your plan looks fabulous, wish we'd managed to get a block as big as yours, it will be stunning

Just keep on top of them and make sure they actually build what is on the plan, as they mis-read a few things on ours. BUT despite the stress, we are still amazingly happy with the house they built for us, and I'm off to PCI right now!!

PixelBit · Nov 29, 2013 10:34 am

Thanks Twiggens! I've studied and gone through our to tune our plans for many hours but I always have a feeling I've missed something

It is a bigger block than what we had originally planne but I do feel fortunate on getting this one as lots were being snapped up right before us.

You'll be moving in to your place real soon! Good luck with the PCI.

janicec · Nov 29, 2013 11:24 am

Hey pixelbit nice to see you started a thread

it's a nice size! Shame we can't afford anything bigger than ours teeny 416m2 block. Your plan looks great, love the recessed ceiling in living/dining, one thing we regret not adding, it makes a huge difference!
It's going to look amazing! Will follow closely

Nicci · Nov 29, 2013 11:43 am

Yay, you started a thread.. Plan looks amazing.. love the store space in the garage.. bath in ensuite.. so jealous.

Hope the build goes smoothly for you

fmac · Nov 29, 2013 1:25 pm

Looks amazing!! That house design is great! We've just built down the road in Pearsall

Any ideas on colours yet?

Janicec where as I am jealous of your HUGE block compared to our 300m2

Wildcats · Nov 29, 2013 4:09 pm

Hey Pixel what road are you on? We are opposite the park as well

janicec · Nov 29, 2013 8:47 pm

haha fmac, we're never happy with what we've got huh!

PixelBit · Nov 30, 2013 8:14 pm

Thanks all, I was inspired to start one after following all your threads

The recessed ceilings was one thing we really wanted to get Janicec, The Monaco display home had one in the living area and I wanted to get one in the theatre as well. The one in the theatre will have a lighting trough though.

Nicci, the bath in the ensuite was a mandatory requirement by the wife, I wasn't going to object

Fmac, we've chosen our colours already, It wasn't as straight forward as I initially though but we got something we were pretty happy with I'll post up our colours and selections soon.

Hey Wildcats, we are on Huntington is that your street as well?

PixelBit · Nov 30, 2013 8:36 pm

Some external colour choices...

Face brick

Roof, gutters, fascia and garage - Colorbond Surfmist (Originally chose Dune)

Main render - Solver matched Dulux Heifer

Contrasting/2nd Render - Solver matched Dulux Homebush

Downpipes will be Colorbond Classic Cream excluding the rendered walls, they will be painted zincalume matched to the rendered wall they are on. (Thanks to our pre start lady for giving us this suggestion where I had no clue).

HomeAngels · Nov 30, 2013 8:40 pm

Great floor plan

PixelBit · Dec 08, 2013 7:23 pm

Thanks HomeAngels! We didn't want to change the floor plan too much from the original but had to extend a couple of the bedrooms fit within the estate setback restrictions.

PixelBit · Dec 08, 2013 7:46 pm

As expected, not much action happening on our block, doubt there will be until at least middle of January next year, heres a few pics anyway.

Someone has left a gross looking mattress with a seriously offensive stain on it dumped on our block, does anyone know if the builder will remove this or is this kinda stuff our responsibility to deal with?

and the view of the park across from us

Street view...

janicec · Dec 08, 2013 8:01 pm

hey looks like we're within walking distance haha! You're not the policeman who caught us check out our brickwork one night are you? He said he's building on Huntington

I won't worry about the mattress, let the builder sort it out

PixelBit · Dec 08, 2013 8:24 pm

Haha, unfortunately I'm not part of the force so wasn't me

But pretty cool, to be actually speaking to our future neighbours in our area. I been following your build blog as well and looks like we got the same broker... awesome bunch, they've exceeded our expectations as well.

butterbing · Dec 08, 2013 8:28 pm

Great to see you've started your own thread yeah!!!
Awesome block right across from the park

and I spy my private parking spot for the kids playground is right across the road... I've been staking your block without even realising lol

I've parked there a few times already!!!

janicec · Dec 09, 2013 12:14 am

PixelBit

Haha, unfortunately I'm not part of the force so wasn't me

But pretty cool, to be actually speaking to our future neighbours in our area. I been following your build blog as well and looks like we got the same broker... awesome bunch, they've exceeded our expectations as well.

alright that's good to know

Matt is awesome, he makes dealing with the bank extremely easy. I've sent a lot of businesses his way.

DM1423 · Dec 09, 2013 12:28 pm

Summit charged us to do a site clean before they started construction as we had crates and builders cement dumped on our block.

PixelBit · Dec 09, 2013 8:00 pm

I figured I've been spying other peoples build threads including yours Butterbing that I was inspired to share ours too. I've frequented the park only a couple of times but gonna give a that flying fox a good workout.

Janicec I been dealing with Vic and Leigh and they pretty much made that aspect of things such a breeze.

DM1423 That's not cool at all! Would you mind if I ask how much they charged you? Hoping it's not too much of a big deal for them to charge me for that, I'll find out soon enough, and let you guys know.

DM1423 · Dec 09, 2013 9:32 pm

PixelBit it was $550 for the site clean. I could have done it myself if I hired a bin for about $300 but didn't want to spend all day shoveling bricks, rubble, cement and crates that other tradies dumped on our block. I don't think that one mattress should cause you any problems. Just move it to the back or side and throw it in one of their bins when brick work begins