Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building new home with Great Living Homes in Port Coogee 5Sep 19, 2014 1:35 pm Jays Nice spot. Going to be a massive house! If you don't mind me asking, who is doing your pool and how have you found them? Quality Dolphin Pools. I picked them as I liked the designs they offered of us. Very easy to deal with, when we needed the work done they got in and did it quickly on short notice. Building a concrete pool and spa is not cheap, but having watched the amount of work, steel and concrete used I can understand why. Plus we got the design we wanted, no fibreglass pool would work in this area or at least be a lot smaller. I have attached a few pictures of what it will look like when finished. Ours wont have any plants and only one 2m waterfall in the middle of the pool. It is also longer then in this drawing. We went as close to retaining walls as allowed by using thicker concrete walls and double steel in the concrete. Very strong. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building new home with Great Living Homes in Port Coogee 6Sep 19, 2014 3:58 pm Exciting times ahead! Agree, it's a great spot, I take my weekly walk through there to check out all the gorgeous houses under construction. 3 Kitchens. You must love entertaining! or cleaning Hope everything continues at a great pace for you and I look forward to following your journey! Building in Eliza Ponds, Spearwood I talk about my community here: https://www.facebook.com/22suburbs Re: Building new home with Great Living Homes in Port Coogee 7Sep 19, 2014 5:55 pm IvyC Exciting times ahead! Agree, it's a great spot, I take my weekly walk through there to check out all the gorgeous houses under construction. 3 Kitchens. You must love entertaining! or cleaning Hope everything continues at a great pace for you and I look forward to following your journey! The outside Kitchen is more a built in BBQ with rang hood, sink, cupboards and bench space with a place for a fridge. The 2nd kitchen downstairs is just inside from the Alfresco so it can be used to cook food for any outside entertainment as well. It is a full kitchen, stove, oven, dishwasher, fridge and so on. Has about 14 cupboards. Not a big kitchen but functional and is attached to another living/dining area that leads out to the alfresco. The main reason for a 2nd kitchen downstairs is I am forward planning. Downstairs has a 2nd main bedroom and ensuite plus 2 other bedrooms and another bathroom plus theatre room. So when down stairs, no need to go upstairs to cook food, drinks and so on. If we have guests or family stay with us they have a kitchen to use. When kids are older they can use downstairs and leave us oldies upstairs in peace and quiet. That's the plan, not sure it will work like that though. It is a great area, cant wait to live there. If we are lucky we might be moving in towards the end of 2015, but a lot needs to go right and to plan for that to happen. Re: Building new home with Great Living Homes in Port Coogee 8Sep 24, 2014 1:58 pm Posting to following. Sounds like it is going to be pretty damn impressive Re: Building new home with Great Living Homes in Port Coogee 9Sep 24, 2014 2:09 pm HI there. I like your renderings. May I ask how they were done? Re: Building new home with Great Living Homes in Port Coogee 10Sep 24, 2014 4:27 pm timwa HI there. I like your renderings. May I ask how they were done? They were provided by the pool company on what we told them we wanted and supplied plans. Quality Dolphin Pools. Re: Building new home with Great Living Homes in Port Coogee 11Oct 23, 2014 7:02 pm Almost another month has gone by and we have had a lot of activity at the site. Soak wells installed the week after the slab was laid down. Noticed some electrical work to get it ready for the metre box. Bricks arrived first week of October, about 12,000 of them. Over the last few weeks, window frames, door frames, lots of small steel and large steel beams delivered. Bricklayers shed dropped off and temporary electrical power installed. So it now looks like everything is almost ready for the Bricklayers to come and do the next stage, a lot of materials at site now. The only delay is bricklayers, in high demand at present due to large volume of construction in Perth. Hopefully they start over the next week or so, look forward to walking through the layout of the ground floor. This is the site after soak wells installed. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Bricks being delivered. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Site as of today. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hopefully I will have some more pictures soon with the bricks going up. Re: Building new home with Great Living Homes in Port Coogee 13Nov 17, 2014 3:08 pm M!ssy Hi, glad I found your post, looking forward to following your build. We too have a block in Port Coogee we plan to build on shortly! Hi. Great. Will you create a thread here so we can follow your build? Our brick works just started today so hopefully in a week or so I can show some picture of all the walls and rooms going up for the ground floor. Will take about 2-3 weeks to do all the bricks, 12,000 of them to lay. Nice pay day for the brickies. Re: Building new home with Great Living Homes in Port Coogee 14Nov 17, 2014 8:51 pm mike8472 Will you create a thread here so we can follow your build? Yep, I plan to start a thread when we are a little bit closer to starting. Still nutting out some design issues with the plan. That is a LOT of bricks!! Custom build! Re: Building new home with Great Living Homes in Port Coogee 15Nov 27, 2014 6:46 am Great Living was on our shortlist. Do you have house plans to post? I love your pool/spa plans. Great progress so far. http://www.housebythewater.wordpress.com From blank block to new home in Mandurah, Western Australia. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=65564 Well these guys are not looking good... I sent them a written enquiry last week and they have not yet replied. If they cannot respond to a simple… 4 11115 I looked into it a few years ago and my conclusion was to just build a carport that will support panels and get a system installed separately. The company I looked at had… 1 6793 Hi there! Putting the feelers out there for those who have (or almost) built with Arli homes! Interested in your experiences who've built from their stock home designs… 0 26677 |