Browse Forums Building A New House Re: KDR in Sydney - Sekisui Luzia 2 10Jan 25, 2016 5:39 pm The thing I like about some of the new houses is the space not being saved. It does make a difference to the feel! Re: KDR in Sydney - Sekisui Luzia 2 11Jan 25, 2016 5:54 pm Orpheus Building the Metricon Glendale 38|Sydney Re: KDR in Sydney - Sekisui Luzia 2 12Jan 25, 2016 7:37 pm yvonneh The thing I like about some of the new houses is the space not being saved. It does make a difference to the feel! Definitely agree Yvonneh, we won't know ourselves after 4 of us, a cat, and frequent visitors, living in a small 3 bedroom house with 1 bathroom! Can't wait! Re: KDR in Sydney - Sekisui Luzia 2 13Jan 31, 2016 2:03 pm Will you be increasing the width of island bench. The reason we have increased the width of our island bench from 900mm to 1200mm is as adviced by friends when washing dishes water splash out onto the floor over the other side of the bench. Their island bench width is 900mm. Re: KDR in Sydney - Sekisui Luzia 2 14Jan 31, 2016 3:06 pm shazaw Will you be increasing the width of island bench. The reason we have increased the width of our island bench from 900mm to 1200mm is as adviced by friends when washing dishes water splash out onto the floor over the other side of the bench. Their island bench width is 900mm. Good idea... if you can afford the additional cost and space I'd say go for it. I actually wanted a deeper counter even on the wall side as I wanted to put things 'behind' without feeling like the bench was too busy. The island with the sink is ok. It does splash out but I haven't had it land on the floor on the other side yet... so the 900mm is enough depending on the look. And if you are extending it are you putting any cupboards/shelves under? Re: KDR in Sydney - Sekisui Luzia 2 16Feb 09, 2016 9:29 pm Hi Joneses, I tend to agree with your husband on the toilet upstairs (sorry Yvonne and cat_dunc ). You have two other toilets to use in the house, so if that one is unavailable due to the bathroom being used, you still have options. With regards to the island - I think the other guys might be onto something. We have ours at just over 800mm plus a table-height bench for eating at (breakfast bar sort of thing). I think we may have to be careful how we use the sink or possibly add some sort of low-height wall/ledge behind the sink area itself. Check the window from Bed 5 over the alfresco roof. It may be a narrow slit due to the height of the roof pitch (check the elevations). If you want something deeper on that side, consider making it not so wide, so it's not running into the steeper part of the roof below. Consider a laundry chute from the "Store" upstairs? We're really looking forward to kids' clothes magically ending up in the laundry after a shower I like the idea of widening your house, especially around the garage - the standard sizes just feel a bit tight for my liking (and we don't have massive vehicles either). Regarding the shower in the powder room, if you had a room downstairs that could be used as a bedroom, or if you plan to put a pool in out the back, then a shower is a good idea. If neither of those apply to you, then my feeling is the two showers upstairs would be enough. Consider putting a door/opening from the cloak room, under the stairs and out through the door that is currently showing as an entry into the under-stair area? When you exit the car in the garage, if you have to keep going the "long way round" all the time (around the foot of the stairs), you will possibly give up using the cloak room and just enter through the butler pantry because it's more convenient - and then shoes, jackets and bags get left in the kitchen/lounge instead of the cloak room. In the main bathroom upstairs, if you turned the toilet sideways (backing onto the void), you could then extend the shower if you wanted a double-headed one. I think the display home actually has a long shower at the back of the bathroom (where your bath is shown) and then the bath where your shower is (from memory). That's a good idea to turn that passageway beside Bed 4 into something more useful. In the display home at Kellyville, it does seem like a wasted space there. Just be careful though that you don't close down the view out the large windows opposite the stair - that's a nice feature of that particular design. Finally - I don't know you and your family and how you plan to live, so please just take these thoughts for what they are - my thoughts. I won't be offended if you don't agree with my way of thinking Seksui KDR in Sydney (2015-2016) Links --> | H1 thread | Final plans | Timing of works updated 9/3/16 | Re: KDR in Sydney - Sekisui Luzia 2 17Mar 21, 2016 11:47 am Well, it only took us two trips out to Kellyville, but we are happy with our new home proposal, and signed our contract last Friday! I will put up the plans/drawings either today or tomorrow. It's been a bit of a whirlwind, we were even out choosing bricks on Saturday, so everything "appears" to be happening pretty quickly. I just hope the pace doesn't completely die off once we get to demolition!! We haven't organised for it yet, but I am hoping that bit isn't too complicated.......... Re: KDR in Sydney - Sekisui Luzia 2 18Mar 21, 2016 12:58 pm The pace will never be to your liking. Congrats on the contract! That's huge and sounds like you had a smooth time of it (from this perspective) Re: KDR in Sydney - Sekisui Luzia 2 19Mar 21, 2016 5:49 pm I found your thread! I like the changes that you would like to make. Nice house, of course I'm biased cos we are similar .
I now know the difference between our house, yours house is exactly as the display home in Kellyville. I love them both! We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 38509 The biggest challenge will be if you take out a loan and then run out of money - you'll have an incomplete security and lenders do not like this so you can get stuck.… 2 19863 Hi, I am looking into doing a KDR in Melbourne and am contemplating using Kialla Homes. I am looking for feedback on them from others who have built with them. 0 14137 |