our first home group wa home

jasminelee_86 · Feb 26, 2016 2:01 pm

i have been reading post for ages and have now decided its time to start my own post.
we are building with home group wa and have pre start on the 2nd march. im so excited as we recieved working drawings yesterday.
we are building the southport but have added a few extra bedrooms and changed size.
im so excited as this has been almost a yr of back and forth with design ideas and getting finance and finally deciding on where to actually build.
we are building south of mandurah. i hope i enjoy the whole process, well most of it anyway. ive loved watching everyone homes go from prestart to them recieving keys and now it is finally my familys turn

psyherin · Feb 26, 2016 2:19 pm

Enjoy the journey and all the best. Keep the posts coming would love to see your plans, color selections and house taking shape

jasminelee_86 · Feb 26, 2016 2:29 pm

need to figure out how to upload pics

jasminelee_86 · Feb 26, 2016 2:31 pm

having trouble deciding whats worth upgrding and whats not.
i really wanna upograde to semi frameless showers but not sure it is something that makes a huge difference just added cost. going to cosbys to look at tiles tomorrow for all wet area, very excited and hope i actually find something i like

jasminelee_86 · Feb 26, 2016 3:13 pm

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Our house plan

jasminelee_86 · Feb 26, 2016 3:14 pm

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Our plan, sorry bit wonky bad pic

Robina · Feb 26, 2016 4:17 pm

Welcome we are also building a modified version of the Southport. It's a great design. Love your changes. Makes it a very big house. Don't think I've seen a plan without a kitchen bench. Are you having a big table there?
Have you thought about taking out the second big window/door to the alfresco to give you more wall space?

jasminelee_86 · Feb 26, 2016 4:43 pm

Robina

Welcome we are also building a modified version of the Southport. It's a great design. Love your changes. Makes it a very big house. Don't think I've seen a plan without a kitchen bench. Are you having a big table there?
Have you thought about taking out the second big window/door to the alfresco to give you more wall space?

we are putting an island bench in at prestart just had to take it out to met the banks lending, just means we pay for it at prestart which is fine.
the doors that go out the back we had limited options for cause unless we wanted to pay the $9000 they wanted to charge to make whole back wall sliding doors we couldnt afford that so next best thing was to have a small wall to support the beam that goes over the doors and an extra window. the 2 windows on other side i made them bit longer as i will be using the windows to seperate the dinning and living rooms. again it would cost way to much to change to a massive window.
it seems bit weird some prices that some people have been given for same things seem way off.
just hope prestart isnt going to cost us a second mortgage lol

Robina · Feb 26, 2016 4:51 pm

Okay I see now. You have a much bigger back door/window space than us as we have used part of the alfresco as a store room. Good idea about the island bench. We used della vita tiles for our bathrooms but most people use Crosbys or the other one.
We spent a lot of money on structural changes so had to stay with their tiles. We took out their main floor tiles. As we are going greys and charcoal and white. Hope you find some lovely tiles and Goodluck with your build. Posting to follow.

jasminelee_86 · Feb 26, 2016 5:38 pm

sounds very much like us, we have their tiles the grey ones and gloss white ones but going to cosbys tomorrow just to have a look. we took main florr tiles out as well. to be honest i just didnt like them, i feel they are a bit cheap looking for the overall look im going for.
i love watching everyones builds and seeing the colour choices and styles. great design inspiration from a few post already

jasminelee_86 · Feb 26, 2016 7:42 pm

what have people done with the lights. i have noticed some people have put pendant lights in, did you change those after or at prestart. im not sure whether to add extra downlights and just put the conduit in the for pendant lights or just suck it up and get them to do it all

MAQ247 · Feb 27, 2016 12:44 am

Following your build ☺

spuddles76 · Feb 27, 2016 12:46 am

Hi Jasminelee_86, following as we are building the Southport too. It's just a beautiful layout.

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jpmontoya · Feb 27, 2016 1:06 am

Following your build, nice alfresco there

jasminelee_86 · Feb 27, 2016 3:54 am

we are going to crosbys today to see if we like any of their tiles better than our current selection, ill keep you posted

jasminelee_86 · Feb 27, 2016 2:29 pm

So we went to crosbys and picked our new colour selection. Love them way more than what homegroup had to offer. Now we just need to wait for the total cost i bet that may hurt a bit

jasminelee_86 · Feb 27, 2016 2:33 pm

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So these are our new choice. Grey for the floor, white for all walls, white caninets, greyish benchtop and stone feature for showers

jasminelee_86 · Feb 27, 2016 2:36 pm

And we have subway tiles in the kitchen for splashback with black grout 😊

Robina · Feb 27, 2016 2:51 pm

They all look gorgeous. Very nice selections. Love the grey floor tiles. And the idea of black grout for the subway.

jasminelee_86 · Feb 29, 2016 12:04 pm

Omg im so excited prestart in 2 days, going over all the colours and styles again, wanna make sure i dont miss anything. Sure i will miss something. Is there anything anyone missed and wished they didnt or things they changed that didnt really matter if they did or not