Been looking around at others threads for a while and decided it was time to do one for myself/ourselves.
Me and my fiancee are building with Smart Homes on Haricot St in Tuart Ridge Estate Baldivis. First house either of us have ever built and really enjoying it all so far.
We currently have our slab down and drainage done, bricks were delivered this week with the laying due to start next week. We had a delay with the earthworks as the cement guys had setup shop on our block when they were doing the big retaining wall at the back and didn't clean up properly so under the top bit of soil there was a heap of hardened mortar and junk. It set us back about 2 weeks.
Here is a bit of a timeline so far which I will update as we go along:
29/04/15 - Final plans & changes made and signed off on
07/07/15 - Slab down
07/08/15 - Bricks delivered
So the house we are building is the Genesis, plans are below
http://smarthomesforliving.com.au/displ ... -baldivis/
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And the display home
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This is where our block is, overlooking the park which will be nice. It's 17x32 so 544m2
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Pics of the slab down
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Onto the house itself, a few of the details:
31c ceilings throughout and also a 31c high garage
Downlights in all the main living areas and also the alfreso
Colorbond roof in Surfmist and a few darker colours which I forget the names on the render
Jarrah stained double doors at the front
Paving as shown on the plans down the side of the house and also a bit more at the front
We are doing the floors, painting, ducted aircon & window finishings separate form the builder so they will all be done after handover.
The theatre room is actually going to be a games room which opens out onto the alfresco and we had it enlarged a bit so it can fit an 8x4 pool table
We are going to wall mount the tv on the recessed wall in the loungeroom and wall mount some speakers as well so it won't take over the room. Just need to find a nice entertainment unit to suit.
Bricks a single course Nouveau Grey from Brikmakers
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We upgraded the appliances to fisher & paykel ones
90cm Pyrolitic Oven
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Cooktop & rangehood
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Got the fridge recess sized exactly to suit this fridge
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We are going to be putting bamboo floors in all the main living areas and carpet in the rest including the activity room
This is the bamboo we are going with:
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Benchtops and also ensuite vanity (there was enough in the offcuts to do this so it was no extra) will be essastone piazza. Cupboards in both will be gloss white
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Oh and we put a deposit on our couch the other day, light grey leather
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Whew, well thats about it for now. I'll post up some pics once we go for a visit this weekend so show the latest progress
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