Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Dee & Dan's First Home Build - HomeGroupWA in Piara Wate 16Jan 31, 2014 1:58 am Hi Dee_77 I'm interested in your pool and home groups approach to putting this in. Do you mind if I ask what the $395 engineers letter is for? We are putting a pool in directly after build and have had much too'ing and fro'ing with our three different sales reps at HGWA. In the end the costs have gone from an estimated $4,000 in pilings, to $7,346 in both deeper footings and pilings. Our pool will be 700mm from the alfresco and 1.5 metres from the living room and master suite. As yours appears to be close to both the master suite and alfresco I'm very interested in the cost differences. Thanks Nic Re: Dee & Dan's First Home Build - HomeGroupWA in Piara Wate 17Jan 31, 2014 9:53 am Welcome Nic! Our engineers letter was done through our pool installer to get approval from the council to build this close to the house/fencing. It was our pool people that asked us to get HGWA to do the drop footings. Have you actually spoken to a pool company yet or just spoken to homegroup about what they think you will need? If you haven't spoken to someone about the pool yet I would do that as they will know more about what you need to support the house/pool. Also will your pool be fibreglass or cement, ours was fibreglass. We ended up paying $2279 through homegroup for the drop footings to the rear of the house...plus a little extra for earthworks too. But since yours is surrounded very closely by the house on 3 sides I can see why it would be more. Good luck with it all...let me know how you go! Once it's all done though it is going to look amazing and you will have a great view! Everyone that visits your house is going to have a sudden urge to go for a swim! Re: Dee & Dan's First Home Build - HomeGroupWA in Piara Wate 18Feb 01, 2014 7:23 pm Okay so finally found some time to post our colour selections and upgrades, would love some feedback! We have gone for a very neutral and modern colour scheme so we can decorate and accessorise colour with furnishings. We basically have a black, white and grey house! We are doing the main tiling ourselves after handover and have chosen Carrara black and white porcelain tiles for the living and laundry areas. Carpet for the theatre and bedrooms we upgraded to a very plush dark grey colour which I love! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We are also doing the deck and landscaping ourselves after handover. We will be using Trex Transcend composite decking in Gravel path for the Alfresco area, Empire Blue 300x600 Granite pavers for the pool/backyard paving, and 290x290 Kimberley Pavers in charcoal for the driveway/entrance. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The kitchen, ensuite and bathroom are as black and white as they come! We have chosen Corian Designer White for our benches throughout, and Laminex Polar White in Crystal Gloss/Silk Finish throughout as well. We also have a black glass splashback to both the bench & backing of the island in the kitchen. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We have also (scarily) chosen both black floor AND wall tiles for the Ensuite and Bathroom...that's right...alllllll black everything! I don't have any pictures of our bathroom tiles, I will be sure to get some soon. But we have chosen 250x250 plain black porcelain floor tiles, and 300x600 black polished porcelain wall tiles which have a sort of shimmer/glitter in them. They are beautiful! We have full height tiling in our ensuite too so fingers crossed it looks good! For the exterior render we chose Dulux Silver City, and Dulux Isolde for the front door. Internally we have gone with Dulux Vivid White as the main colour (including doors/doorframes, as well as the render for the rear of the house), and Dulux Otto's boy for the theatre. We plan on doing some wallpapering in the Master bedroom as well but not sure what colour/style yet. If anyone has any advice on white I would love the help - who knew there were 1000 different kinds of white! I am still unsure about the Dulux Vivid White as we want a cool white which wont look yellow against our very white tiles and very white kitchen, but that also wont make you blind. We were told vivid white is the base white without any tint in it so we went with this. If anyone has any better suggestions let me know, or if you think it will work well let me know and put my mind at ease please! Will post again soon with all our other bits and pieces, upgrades and costs! Re: Dee & Dan's First Home Build - HomeGroupWA in Piara Wate 19Feb 01, 2014 8:15 pm Here are our main upgrades from pre-start: KITCHEN Black Glass Splashback (bench + island) - $1602 O/head horizontal cupboards w/ gas struts - $1596 2x 900mm bank of pot drawers - $1032 60mm thick bench + waterfall ends - $4395 Cold water plumbing to fridge recess - $284 LAUNDRY Mercury Glass Splashback - $1163 ENSUITE + BATHROOM Upgrade to 6mm shadowline mirror - $107 Nib wall in bathroom - $283 Fully frameless shower screen - $1186 Semi frameless shower screen - $280 Matelux glass door to ensuite - $644 Integrated floor wastes to all wet areas - $355 Mitred tile edges throughout - $184 BED 2&3 Upgrade to mirror robes - $40 OTHER Jarrah glosswood ceiling - $561 90mm PVC pipe under driveway - $110 Soft closers to cupboard doors throughout - $492 Three phase power - $674 NBN Smartwire pack - $1863 Cairo 3 step cornice - $2676 Plus approximately $5000 in upgrading sinks/basins/tap ware/toilets/bath/doors/door handles etc. It definitely all adds up! Hope this helps those of you still waiting for pre-start! If you are unsure about anything best bet is to get it priced up and then you can edit and delete things afterwards to suit the budget...or just blow the budget completely like we did Re: Dee & Dan's First Home Build - HomeGroupWA in Piara Wate 20Feb 01, 2014 8:37 pm Awesome Dee - I will be following very intently as our whole house is having a black, white and grey (silver) theme as well have you used any of the motorised curtain systems available from Ebay? Which one and how is it? 0 2434 So it looks like we finally have some movement on site! Definitely later than expected, but I'll take any progress at this point. I'll drop by over the weekend to get… 5 27738 hi guys. Please be nice. First time home builder in Qld. I would like some feedback please on whether I should build my granny flat first before my main house at the… 0 4596 |