Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jan 05, 2014 7:07 pm Our house building journey --- https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68842 Re: Third House on the Left 3Jan 05, 2014 9:20 pm Our house building journey --- https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68842 Re: Third House on the Left - Slab 4Jan 05, 2014 10:55 pm Our house building journey --- https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68842 Re: Third House on the Left - Slab 5Jan 15, 2014 12:37 pm Our house building journey --- https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68842 Re: Third House on the Left - FRAME!! 8Jan 17, 2014 9:21 am Our house building journey --- https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68842 Re: Third House on the Left - Roof :) 10Jan 22, 2014 6:48 pm Our house building journey --- https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68842 Re: Third House on the Left - Roof :) 12Jan 23, 2014 7:57 am Thanks blue steel, that is very comforting! We did it for the same reason, the house definitely looked odd without windows on both sides. I think I'm a bit more nervous now that the house is going up.... Things that I was sure about pre-build are now coming back to haunt and re-stress me. It reminds me of an exam where you wonder if it's worth changing your answer! Except if you change it, it's a very expensive mistake... Our house building journey --- https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68842 Re: Third House on the Left - Bricks :) 13Jan 28, 2014 9:31 pm It's been another busy week on the block and our baby house is looking more and more like a home! Dan and I are really happy with the colour scheme so far... But less talk and more pictures! Our house building journey --- https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68842 Re: Third House on the Left - Bricks :) 14Jan 30, 2014 9:17 pm I forgot to add a completed picture of the house! All finished yesterday so even a little bit ahead of schedule. We are hoping for the fit out of all our robes and pantry next week. Colour choices on the exterior: Roof- Ironstone Gutters - Ironstone Fascia - Dune Downpipes and Soffit - Paperbark Bricks - PGH Frost with white mortar Windows - Pearl White Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Our house building journey --- https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68842 Re: Third House on the Left - Bricks :) 15Jan 31, 2014 11:51 am finished just in time to beat the rain, well done Re: Third House on the Left - Doors, Robes, Vanities and Til 16Feb 07, 2014 7:40 am The house is still rocketing along at a cracking pace this week, and we got our first projected finish date... 6 weeks!! We might need to get onto our furniture choices a bit quicker if they keep it up. Dan and I are definitely feeling lucky that we only live 15 minutes away from the house this week and our daily visits are certainly worthwhile. We've been able to pick up several little (and one medium-big) problems in the afternoon, call our SS the next morning and have them fixed by the next afternoon. Definitely happy with speed and quality of the work so far... We just wish the trades would actually read our plans sometimes! I guess because our builder does a lot of investment homes, they're not used to people changing the plans on them! Here's our progress for the week: Monday - internal doors and vanities were delivered. We discovered that our WIP shelving wouldn't quite work as planned as the cut out for our tambour door was bigger than we had been expecting. Dan and the SS met in the afternoon and planned a few changes. For anyone interested, the internal doors we chose were from the builders standard range- Hume Denmark. Tuesday - internal doors hung and fit out of robes and pantries. We discovered that they'd put cubbies into our WIR contrary to the plan which was hanging space only. The doors on the linen cupboards also had a big gap between them (one of the BIR doors had gotten mixed up with the linen cupboard one, so this was an easy fix). We do like the doors though, I think they're a bit cute! Wednesday - WIR was fixed and ready to go, and the pantry was almost finished. More excitingly... Tiles were delivered and they'd already started on the ensuite bathroom! Thursday - our first reaction on walking into the house was 'wow'. We absolutely looove the tiles! Our second reaction... Hang on a second.... That room was meant to be carpeted! We're confident that it will be fixed... But what a pain. A whole room that needs to be ripped back up and smoothed out again. Looking forward to checking out the house today! Our house building journey --- https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68842 Re: Third House on the Left - Doors, Robes, Vanities and Til 17Feb 12, 2014 7:30 pm A quick question all-knowing forumers! Can you get a colourbond colour as a paint colour? We have our appointment with the painters to choose colours tomorrow and I'm hoping to make the roof trims dune to match the house fascia. That is possible, right? Also, what on earth have people done for the colour of their down pipes? Do you just ask them to match them to the brick? Our house building journey --- https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68842 Re: Third House on the Left - Doors, Robes, Vanities and Til 18Feb 13, 2014 1:04 pm Agentnaget A quick question all-knowing forumers! Can you get a colourbond colour as a paint colour? We have our appointment with the painters to choose colours tomorrow and I'm hoping to make the roof trims dune to match the house fascia. That is possible, right? Also, what on earth have people done for the colour of their down pipes? Do you just ask them to match them to the brick? 1) Yeah, you just go to paint shop and ask for it. For example, our downpipes were colourbond "Monument", so I just went to the bristol shop and asked for a litre of colourbond monument and they made it in their mixer machine. You can do the same at Bunnings but you'll pay much more for it. 2) Our downpipes (metal) are the same colour as our bargeboards. In that case I think that would work for you as your bargeboards are light coloured, as are your bricks. Re: Third House on the Left - questions! Please help! 19Feb 20, 2014 5:30 pm Thanks for the help wokwon! It all ended up being fine in the end. The painter was pretty good about recommending colours for the exterior as we really had no idea and we ended up with paperbark on the soffits and down pipes next to the bricks and dune on the upper down pipes. Very happy with the final result! Our house building journey --- https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68842 Re: Third House on the Left - Painting & Kitchen!! 20Feb 20, 2014 5:37 pm Lots of updates since my last post! First up though... Our house from the outside with its beautiful red front door. The colour we picked is Dulux Happy Valentine and weirdly enough, the door was painted on valentines day! I'm absolutely in love with the colour, it is luscious and kissable and a risk that has totally paid off. Even more so when you see it from the inside! Our front door is the Hume Newington XN1. Our house building journey --- https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68842 Old Home Restoration / Renovation Hi, just discovered all these junks left behind under the floor. Could any of these be asbestos? Best to leave as it is or clean up? Thank you for your thoughts 0 10523 you need a fridgie to answer but I would think you vac the whole system then add gas if you have a leak, unless it is new install with the gas already loaded, in that case… 1 4134 First time building. this triangular part (marked in red) behind my two bedrooms does not have external wall bec of Alfreco roof… 0 1490 |