Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building a Daydream 32 4Nov 11, 2016 4:07 pm Our benchtops went in today and we are in the middle of painting. Still have tiling and fit offs to do. Just met with as and unfortunately we won't be in for Christmas but probably mud to late Jan. Re: Building a Daydream 32 5Nov 11, 2016 7:15 pm Wow you must be getting excited about moving. Our land doesn't register for another 3 months so we will be lucky to get in before next Christmas. What modifications did you include in the house? These are our modifications: - extend width of garage to allow for storage - sliding doors to media room, games room and activity room - delete the bath from the ensuite and put in a double shower - add a shower recess in ensuite - put a built in along the back wall of the games room - put a door on the study - extend bathroom and ensuite vanities to the floor - add a bench in the laundry - cold water connection for the fridge - plumbing and gas for an outdoor kitchen We are also hoping to include their ducted air-conditioning and colorbond roofing promotion. The only thing I can't decide on is the facade. Not sure if I can justify $12000 for the Elliott portico. The only problem is I'm not sure if I like the standard design facade. Re: Building a Daydream 32 6Nov 11, 2016 7:29 pm GCGirl Wow you must be getting excited about moving. Our land doesn't register for another 3 months so we will be lucky to get in before next Christmas. What modifications did you include in the house? These are our modifications: - extend width of garage to allow for storage - sliding doors to media room, games room and activity room - delete the bath from the ensuite and put in a double shower - add a shower recess in ensuite - put a built in along the back wall of the games room - put a door on the study - extend bathroom and ensuite vanities to the floor - add a bench in the laundry - cold water connection for the fridge - plumbing and gas for an outdoor kitchen We are also hoping to include their ducted air-conditioning and colorbond roofing promotion. The only thing I can't decide on is the facade. Not sure if I can justify $12000 for the Elliott portico. The only problem is I'm not sure if I like the standard design facade. I am not sure how to put my link up here but I have a thread with all plans etc that you could look up...Becs Coral We didn't upgrade and change too much . They are mainly on the thread though. We have the Elliot portico and I do love the grandness that it gives the facade BUT beware if you go with this, the ceiling height for this particular facade is much lower than it shows I. The facade pictures on the website. We learnt this too late. Would we have not chosen this had we have known. I am not sure. Maybe we would have paid a little more to upgrade a bit more. At this point this has been the only issue that we have raised, and was upset that we weren't informed by our salesman, who it turns out didn't know that this was the case for this facade. The pillars still need to be painted. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Here is the website pic. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building a Daydream 32 7Nov 12, 2016 1:05 pm Thanks for the heads up about the portico. It is very deceiving because in the website picture there is clearly space between the door/windows and the ceiling. It still looks fantastic though. I will have a read through your post. Thanks Re: Building a Daydream 32 9Nov 12, 2016 8:27 pm Hey GCGirl, I will be building a daydream 30, sometime in the new year. Waiting on land to register. We have decided not have a facade, as we couldn't justify the $12k for it. We feel it still looks good, just not as grand. We found that corals prices for changes, weren't too bad. We deleted the bath in our ensuite, and made a double shower, by memory it was only $1200 i think. Where abouts are you building? Re: Building a Daydream 32 10Nov 14, 2016 9:00 am xjanex Hey GCGirl, I will be building a daydream 30, sometime in the new year. Waiting on land to register. We have decided not have a facade, as we couldn't justify the $12k for it. We feel it still looks good, just not as grand. We found that corals prices for changes, weren't too bad. We deleted the bath in our ensuite, and made a double shower, by memory it was only $1200 i think. Where abouts are you building? We are building at Riverstone Crossing at Maudsland. We haven't found the modifications to be too bad price wise either. The problem is when you have so many it does add up quickly. Our first quote was almost $100,000 more than the price listed on their website! Re: Building a Daydream 32 12Mar 08, 2017 7:27 am Thought I might update. Sadly we are still waiting for land to register (it's technically only a month/6 weeks behind schedule so I shouldn't complain). We have signed the contracts, paid the $5000 owner paid deposit and chosen the tiles and colours (I will update pictures etc when I get a chance). We did have a slight hiccup with one bank valuation on the land coming in almost $40,000 under but thankfully our broker found us an alternative bank and the loans for the house and land have been approved. Right now I am trying to sort through the electrical plan. My husband can't make any of the appointments due to his work. It was easy enough with the tiles and colours since we could visit the showrooms and luckily we have similar tastes but it is proving a little trickier with the electrics especially since I can see we will likely go over budget. Re: Building a Daydream 32 13Mar 08, 2017 8:45 am Here are our variations with prices included: We went with the Designer package but upgraded a lot of things. Luxury Display home option 1 (floor tiles) $2499 Luxury Display home option 2 (carpet) $1499 Luxury Display home option 3 (Caesarstone benchtops and overhead cupboards) this one ended up being free because of a promotion they were having Luxury Display home option 4 (900mm cooker and rangehood) $999 Luxury Display home option 5 (bathroom and ensuite upgrades - caesarstone benchtops, extra high wall tiling wall faced toilets, semi frameless shower screens) $1999 per bathroom/ensuite High ceilings $2250 Wide entry door and extra choices with doors $499 Colorbond Roof and Steelframe $2999 Increase garage by 50cm $2004 Raised portico $4000 Sliding door to activity room $360 Extra render needed for garage extension $149 Sliding door to ensuite $178 Sliding door to media $590 Hinged door to study $278 Sliding door to games $617 Built in cupboard to games room $886 Reconfigure ensuite $706 (I will upload pictures later) Provide shower recess $388 Additional shower mixer to ensuite (double shower) $549 Bathroom vanity to floor rather than floating -$215 it was cheaper to have full length than floating Benchtop to laundry $149 Hot and cold tap provision and floor waste to alfresco $473 Cold water connection to fridge space $225 Natural gas connection to alfresco $265 Re: Building a Daydream 32 15Mar 08, 2017 12:13 pm I'm following you! We are building a 30 - same issue with valuation! Went with elegance package, steel frame roof, have modified pantry severely and ensuite option 2 with extended clear windows right down to top of bath. We have gone with the coolala portico Re: Building a Daydream 32 19Mar 08, 2017 3:32 pm Bathroom/Ensuite colours and tiles Benchtop - Osprey Cupboards - Baye Floor tile - Vibe Stone Wall tile - Brooklyn Whitewash Feature wall tile - Brooklyn Grigio The feature tiles will be above the bath in the main bathroom and will line the wall of our shower in the ensuite (all 2.5m of it). If anyone has seen the Avoca display home at Ormeau this is the look we are going for with some slight modifications. I didn't want the white floor tiles with 2 kids!! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building a Daydream 32 20Apr 18, 2017 11:57 am Gorgeous selections!! The Brooklyn Grigio is going to look awesome. I don't blame you not wanting white tiles with two kids running around hehe go upvc window frames ensure insulation under colorbond. not just sarking, lighter color roof also not sure if you have seen this viewtopic.php?t=5823 last couple of pages… 4 111285 Even if it's not being sub-divided and you want to keep it as Torrens title, you will still need to talk to a town planner or Council themselves, to see if they will allow… 1 11365 |