Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Our first home - Sekisui Clareville - Saddlers Ridge 8Aug 09, 2014 2:40 pm You posted your changes - yay! I love them! I may just need to steal the laundry idea. Have they given you a price for the 1.2m laundry extension and are you getting laundry cabinetry through them? If so how much are they charging for that too please? Re: Our first home - Sekisui Clareville - Saddlers Ridge 9Aug 09, 2014 10:18 pm Katetodd - I'm following your build too! We have just paid our deposit to build the Regent with Sekisui. Akula - our estimate has 9sqm of extra garage space for $3,600 so around $400 per sqm. Re: Our first home - Sekisui Clareville - Saddlers Ridge 10Aug 09, 2014 10:30 pm Wow! Looks good. And really like the changes you are making. The door in the hall is brilliant! So good for future heating / cooling needs as well as noise isolation. Jealous of the green package options you are getting. Re: Our first home - Sekisui Clareville - Saddlers Ridge 11Aug 10, 2014 10:27 am Currently we don't know the price of individual items but as soon as i know I'll let you know. It's starting to feel very real now Re: Our first home - Sekisui Clareville - Saddlers Ridge 12Aug 17, 2014 10:53 am So we had our 40 minute pre-colour appointment yesterday... I came out of it a little disappointed. It felt like the colour consultant had no idea what we had planned to do with the house. Luckily Todd took all his designs with us so we could show her what we were talking about! Basically she just said this is what comes standard with the house. I thought maybe they would show some options we could upgrade to if we weren't happy with the standard. Anyway we've started going through the books and brochures. We sort of know the colours we want for the exterior and we will be going very neutral for the interior. Just need to make sure the bathrooms and laundry flow with the rest of the house! Re: Our first home - Sekisui Clareville - Saddlers Ridge 13Aug 17, 2014 12:50 pm Our biggest decision will be flooring. We are leaning towards tiles but i don't know what the best option will be for us. I like the look of tiles and timber look flooring. I worry that tiles will be too cold or hard to keep clean Re: Our first home - Sekisui Clareville - Saddlers Ridge 14Aug 17, 2014 3:22 pm Welcome to H1 KateTodd! Congrats on your block purchase, and your plan looks great. I love how 3 rooms have an outlook to your alfresco area. And your WIP is to die for! So sorry to hear you were disappointed with your pre colour appt. Its awful when you are so full of excitement and you are faced with disinterested and unhelpful people. Just remember you are paying for it and you can have what you want! If I am feeling down I just get my H1 fix! We are having wood look tiles coz are on a property and wanted to be practical. Can't have kids and lambs running around on wood floors without damage!! Trend Ceramics in Osbourne Park stock a range called the Etic collection - they are gorgeous. Minimal grout, porcelain so they won't chip white as are the same colour right through, and low maintenance. Sound like a salesperson don't I!!! I have a sample of the Etic Rovere and call it 'my precious'!! Now sounding nutty so will leave it at that! Good luck with your build! Re: Our first home - Sekisui Clareville - Saddlers Ridge 15Aug 17, 2014 5:26 pm KateTodd Our biggest decision will be flooring. We are leaning towards tiles but i don't know what the best option will be for us. I like the look of tiles and timber look flooring. I worry that tiles will be too cold or hard to keep clean are you going to get Sekisui to do the floors or after handover? We're doing ours after handover and agree that the floors was the biggest decision for us and that we used our floors to decide on the rest of the colours! (But if you are going neutral it won't be a problem anyway). I am anti tiles as they do get cold in winter although they are very hardy! (Other people I know love them and don't notice them being cold so to each their own). And I know what you mean about the colours appointment. It's not as good as what the others who are building with the more established builders experience but I suspect overtime they will improve their upselling and provide more options. Good luck with all the decision making. Re: Our first home - Sekisui Clareville - Saddlers Ridge 16Aug 20, 2014 7:58 pm We're slowly making decisions on colours Here's what we're thinking for the exterior: The closest exterior to our design i could find to give us an indication of colours. We haven't had a chance to look at the Austral brick range in person as yet but from the brochure the brick will most likely be 'Engage" or "Leisure" from the Everyday Life range. We would probably then go a light coloured front door as well. If anyone has any suggestions on the exterior colour choice please let me know Re: Our first home - Sekisui Clareville - Saddlers Ridge 17Aug 20, 2014 10:52 pm Hey KateTodd, you have made our choice a bit easier, your exteriors look very good to me. 23/06/2014 - Paid deposit 21/07/2014 - ordered the survey and tender 13/08/2014 - soils test sample taken 14/08/2014 - survey done today 30/08/2014 - Pre-color consultant aptmnt Re: Our first home - Sekisui Clareville - Saddlers Ridge 18Sep 01, 2014 7:30 pm Thanks Vivmak! Unfortunately these are the only colours we've been able to decide on! Having trouble picturing the whole house and the flow of colours. especially from the tiny samples. Looking everywhere for inspiration though so hopefully i'll wake up one day and know exactly what i want Re: Our first home - Sekisui Clareville - Saddlers Ridge 20Sep 01, 2014 8:27 pm The land contracts were exchanged last week Still waiting on the proposal but the consultant forwarded our plans to us to review while we wait. Certainly taking its time. Bit nervous on what price might come back! The plans look fairly good though. They've taken almost everything we asked for into consideration just a few minor changes that haven't made it to the plans. Other than that we've just been looking at colours and styles Soak wells and electrical run in happening this week! Summit has told me they will relocate the laundry plumbing after the walls are completed. I'm actually pretty happy… 13 37009 Cant give recommendations in general with that builder, but during the colour selection, this is honestly personal preference. Depends on the style you want. 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