Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Palace q1 Henley 3Jul 26, 2016 10:01 am Second Build, this time with Carlisle 2016, can't wait! Beckham: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=67280 Canterbury: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81175 Palace q1 Henley 10Jul 27, 2016 3:21 pm This is our third build with Henley and I must say this floor plan Palace Q1 is great! No wasted space (what I mean by that is there is no meaningless space which you don't know what to do with and doesn't get used) and the flow suits our family perfectly. Re: Palace q1 Henley 11Jul 27, 2016 3:40 pm Mclaren77 This is our third build with Henley and I must say this floor plan Palace Q1 is great! No wasted space (what I mean by that is there is no meaningless space which you don't know what to do with and doesn't get used) and the flow suits our family perfectly. This will be our second build and I completely agree with you, the way the space has been set out is excellent!! Did you do many upgrades like the butlers and Laundry? Re: Palace q1 Henley 13Jul 27, 2016 4:08 pm Oh Excellent, sounds like the upgrades we were going to go for as well! We are still at the very early stages of ours so we are still yet to go through our options of what we would like to add Re: Palace q1 Henley 15Jul 27, 2016 8:38 pm We built the Palace...been in for 3 months now. We did the mini door through the butlers - height about 1.7m. Wasted space - master bedroom - it is huge (particularly given the ensuite suffers - you have to stand over the toilet off the ensuite to close the door - it is truly a very small room). I just feel this whole area could have been done better. Happy to answer any other questions you may have, but the one piece of advice I would give you is not to settle until everything is sorted. We settled with a range of issues that Henley said they would come back and fix - 3 months later and I am still emailing 2-3 times a week to get people to come out and fix stuff. Worse still, someone has to be home most times, which is difficult when everyone in the house works!! Re: Palace q1 Henley 16Jul 27, 2016 9:36 pm vigintitres We built the Palace...been in for 3 months now. We did the mini door through the butlers - height about 1.7m. Wasted space - master bedroom - it is huge (particularly given the ensuite suffers - you have to stand over the toilet off the ensuite to close the door - it is truly a very small room). I just feel this whole area could have been done better. Happy to answer any other questions you may have, but the one piece of advice I would give you is not to settle until everything is sorted. We settled with a range of issues that Henley said they would come back and fix - 3 months later and I am still emailing 2-3 times a week to get people to come out and fix stuff. Worse still, someone has to be home most times, which is difficult when everyone in the house works!! 1.7 metres is a good sized butlers door for a guy who is short Which facade did you go with and what were some of the other upgrades you ended up going for? There are a few we are looking at but not 100% sure, one of the Things I am still debating is whether to put sliding doors to the theatre or leave it open... Did you upgrade things like the butlers and laundry? Re: Palace q1 Henley 17Jul 27, 2016 9:47 pm Oh also how much did they charge you for the door to the understairs? Re: Palace q1 Henley 18Jul 27, 2016 10:48 pm $210 for the door under the stairs. Great little space - the wife put carpet down and we have shelves in there. Henley did basic plaster, no detailing around door jamb (on inside) and fitted a light. As for changes to laundry and butlers, I'm not sure what you mean. Laundry we went with Option 5A which is the full cabinets. Butlers we went standard (we did fit sink) as we are going to sort that out ourselves later. We have already decided to move the dishwasher from the kitchen to the butlers, so we will be getting a cabinet maker in to do that (along with a few other changes, such as pull out pantry and drawers - we placed handles to allow for pull out even though they are currently normal opening cupboards). Broadway facade - the wife and I liked the basic look and for our area (we built in established eastern suburb) this blends well. That said, we did change it to fully render upstairs, render around door arch and fully brick everywhere else downstairs. As for upgrades, we pretty much upgraded everything we could. Wall flick taps in all bathrooms, Franke sinks, added a pantry to the left of the outside wall in kitchen (thank goodness, as there is very little pantry space elsewhere), upgraded tiles, timber windows, 3rd coat of paint (waste given our paint job is terrible), timber windows, 2300 wide front door, wider garage, timber windows, sound proof plaster for theatre (we installed double doors; asked for parliament hinges but they forgot them, so credit back), changed a number of windows, timber stairs, top electrical package (and still added more, such as 2 theatre room wirings), etc. We did flooring ourselves as we were not happy with what Henley offered. All up, we ended $90k over base house price, though this is including site costs, slabs, drains, retaining walls, etc. which will vary. Re: Palace q1 Henley 19Jul 27, 2016 10:59 pm Great info, thanks for sharing. Can I ask what flooring you decided to go with downstairs? Did you do tiles or timber flooring and how does it look? I love the entry hall to the Palace and was thinking of a nice porcelain gloss tile to give it that mirrored look. Also did you get cupboards under the bench to the butlers pantry? Re: Palace q1 Henley 20Jul 27, 2016 11:05 pm I also forgot to mention I decided that the island bench had great cabinetry space that would otherwise be left empty and requested cabinets to the other side where you put the bar stools. The cupboard doors click into place and have no handles. I think it cost around $900 to do so but it will be great storage for a lot of kitchen gadgets that don't get used regularly! Hi, If you give a set of criteria as to what means 'good' to you, it'll give others prompts to respond. We considered Henley early on but there were two factors that… 1 12536 |