Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Feb 11, 2017 3:16 pm Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 2Feb 12, 2017 3:33 pm Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 4Feb 12, 2017 7:24 pm cant decide Download the Tapatalk app to upload photos it's really easy to use. Good luck with your build! Thanks, will have a go! Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 5Feb 13, 2017 11:44 am Congrats on the baby news and on starting your new family home!! Your exterior looks very nice Would love to see your house plan GJ Gardner Modified Coolum 277 viewtopic.php?t=83643 Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 6Feb 14, 2017 10:18 pm charlibear Congrats on the baby news and on starting your new family home!! Your exterior looks very nice Would love to see your house plan GJ Gardner Modified Coolum 277 viewtopic.php?t=83643 Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Ah this has been a busy week already, but we will going to Gold Coast this weekend for a valentine's-family weekend trip! Also visit our beach wedding site as our anniversary just passed! Now some time to try and keep this topic thread going! Still trying to figure out the best way to link the photos on the thread, but for now Here are some house plans Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ -- so we modified the walk-in robe for the master to allow for a shower and bath combo in our ensuite -- we also having part of the kids play area - installed with an internal rock climbing wall!! (no babies allowed) -- and we have a pretty basic laundry area - but a large robe for that area anyway -- have the windows smaller than say the style of windows on the coast due to climate here and heating efficiency (believe me its cold in winter!!) -- the third garage will double as an attached "shed" - which could be a gym, or storage area or extra car port. -- we also have the possibility of raising the roof in future if we so please, and likely to have the stairwell run at a right angle past our master suite wall -- we had considered adding height by doing two storey, but with the site works and timelines (both equally important considerations) we decided on a single story sprawling house option (plus benefit of wheelchair useability). -- there is also an internal opening between the sewing room and the play room for supervising the children -- kitchen is going to be a bit fancy but more on that later! -- we also have a working water well, which we plan to use for gardening and or car washing -- solar system, gas heating with solar ready in case we decide to become more 'off-grid' and electric stovetop and oven -- our house is pretty family and comfort oriented --The Elevations Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ --- I still cant wrap my head around the tallness of the house with 25 degrees roof pitch (which is near perfect for the efficiency of solar absorption off the panels) --- also noting that a larger portion of the roof space is basically 3000mm which means possibly a 2nd level without needing to raise the roof much! (I am still in love with idea of a 2nd level for views etc but we have to be mindful of wheelchair accessibility for family ) house plans on the land Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ -- with the slope and rocks in the way, best solution for us seemed to be a retaining wall (high one up to1.5m in height, with safety steel frame fence along the northside boundary - this will allow us to maintain a traditional slab, without any pillars or steps to the entrances, also will probably make our view of the town even more amazing, especially when and if we build on the adjacent block towards the creek with units or another house or something (and that house will be looking up on us) -- it is dear though all the costs.. Dixon weren't game to do any fixed price prior to costings for the engineering and fill costs. --Stanthorpe is known for all its granite rocks - hence "granite belt area" Finally lighting plans Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ --just allowed the builders to install the minimum required LED downlights for lighting and power ports same --will talk to the electrician direct for any upgrades --but otherwise plan to set up a wi-fi Philips Hue lighting system in some of the main and important areas (really in love with the concept of controlling your own lighting from wi-fi system... though yes, it could be hacked.. and that would be an interesting experience):-/ --only question mark is what solutions we have to have a light in the master ensuite shower space, coz that space is likely to be dark with no natural light. ?waterproofed/humidity proofed LED down light? - again will talk to electrician about that More to come! some colour selections and then some progress photos! retaining wall is to be built first, then the next step is fill, then building! Thanks again for reading our fluff!::bedtime:: Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 7Feb 15, 2017 5:20 am Love your plan!!! Wow so big and spacious Your elevations look great, I am the same with the tall roof, but fingers crossed it's going to turn out great for both of us lol. Can't wait to see your selections GJ Gardner Modified Coolum 277 viewtopic.php?t=83643 Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 8Feb 17, 2017 1:41 pm Ok got this photo upload stuff working! All it took was a morning fiddling around on my day off! COLOUR SELECTIONS: As we have a "Resort" level contract, we got a pretty wide selection on little things, in particular the choice of stone, laminates, tiles, etc. It is funny how we ended up picking some of the more mid-range or even some basic choices anyway! So when we went into selections: The theme we were aiming for in our heads was - blank slate, modern clean design but with some colour in the detail areas This is what we came up with: FLOORING Common areas: Tiles were a thought, but given the cold winters and slippage risks, vinyl won over the day and we went with a warm light oak wood colour (and matches with the baby's future window curtains) Carpets: We picked the Belcanto line at Andersens - soft pile but medium cost -in a medium warm grey --no great pics unfortunately...just have to imagine walking barefoot on the carpet of your room at a Sofitel resort...that was our inspiration! Wet Tiles: OMG! this is where we could have got lost... actually, no we are, we are still trying to pick our the feature tiles!! --essentially not a great range from the builders because none had any colour! (remember our theme? hehe) but we don't hold that against them for our particularity! 1. Kitchen: C-stone - Frosty Carrina both to the benchtop and to the island with waterfall edges Tower cupboards - Graphite colour with woodgrain (shannon oak) Bottom cupboards - Pure white glossy INSPIRATION here: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Kitchen backsplash - stairwell type subway tile lay with a light cream tile -- not decided if we want to put a row of accent tile yet to match the bathrooms, whenever we finally pick them... 2. Pantry Laminate - Marble type to benchtop Bottom cupboards - Pure white Also the cream stairwell tile splash-back pattern Then white coloured open shelves of course... or could go graphite?? hmm... Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ 3. Laundry -left blank, we might add in later, again feature tile dilemma! 4. Baths Floor tiles - dark and matte, Wall tiles - white and shiny --we loved the feature tile in the photo but it is too thick so will stick out.. would love that still if we eventually put niches in!:x] WALLS: Canvas White to most walls Then 'special' Lilac to the Sewing room - haha Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ TAPWARE: We are going with square edges in a chrome look, and a swivel tap for the child's bath! And that is that! Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 9Feb 17, 2017 7:34 pm Yay selections!!! I just love everything you have chosen!!! It's going to look awesome!!! GJ Gardner Modified Coolum 277 viewtopic.php?t=83643 Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 10Feb 18, 2017 4:14 pm charlibear Yay selections!!! I just love everything you have chosen!!! It's going to look awesome!!! GJ Gardner Modified Coolum 277 viewtopic.php?t=83643 Thanks charlie! There's definitely different ways to skin a cat... or design a house isn't it? It is a bit of a compromise because I'm more for modern but wife is more a classics person. Totally reminds me of House Hunters on the 9Life network with all the couples with basically opposite tastes. And then there's our five year old who goes for all the high priced bling! Building update: Builder says two weeks to retaining wall and concrete has the blocks ordered for next week. They also say completion by mid-May which sounds optimistic to us. But here's hoping anyway! Council just came round this week to turn on or turn off the sewer taps.. not sure which one? Neighbours were not impressed with the pile of dirt they dug up though it was on the nature strip. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 11Feb 19, 2017 7:09 am Hahaha sounds like my husband and I lol. Hubby wanted all stainless steel kitchen where I wanted a modern contemporary look so we settled on an all white kitchen That's exciting 2 weeks to retaining wall!! GJ Gardner Modified Coolum 277 viewtopic.php?t=83643 Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 12Feb 24, 2017 12:55 pm Congratulations on your first home and first build!!! Hubby and I have just been approved for our first home and first build through Dixon Homes! I can't wait to see how your build goes! I'll be following along Love the house design and the colour selections!!!! Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 13Feb 24, 2017 9:34 pm Disappointing end to the week... Absolutely no action all this week on our lot! It remains a flattened dirt trap. We were so busy this week, we didn't have any time to check in with the builders. Not sure how their two week retaining wall estimate will go. Or how many days delay this will put to our build time! Time will tell perhaps. Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 14Feb 26, 2017 12:16 am fleabee86 Congratulations on your first home and first build!!! Hubby and I have just been approved for our first home and first build through Dixon Homes! I can't wait to see how your build goes! I'll be following along Love the house design and the colour selections!!!! Thanks fleabea! Sorry missed this post earlier! But congratulations to you guys too! Please contribute your build with us all when you can! Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 16Feb 28, 2017 11:15 am ruraldoc fleabee86 Congratulations on your first home and first build!!! Hubby and I have just been approved for our first home and first build through Dixon Homes! I can't wait to see how your build goes! I'll be following along Love the house design and the colour selections!!!! Thanks fleabea! Sorry missed this post earlier! But congratulations to you guys too! Please contribute your build with us all when you can! Thank you Sorry, it's taken me this long to find out how to write back As soon as we have some movement I will start a thread Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 17Feb 28, 2017 9:53 pm Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Woohoo! We have lift off! Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 18Mar 01, 2017 7:58 pm That's awesome!!! Congratulations! Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 19Mar 04, 2017 1:16 am After 3 days of total crazy busy life... work, school, volunteering at school, antenatal stuff, and after-work work... Wife with some bad news about the pregnancy and trying to come to terms with that. We'll be ok though! It's been a few days here as well. And not seeing any action in the past two days, gave up hope for any action today before the weekend. I stopped by the block at midnight as I was coming home... and we have a completed retaining wall! those bat rastards completed the job in two days (over a week). Awesome! Next stop --> FILL! Will take and post pics tomorrow when it's daylight out. Happy weekend everyone! Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: The epic home building race: first home build vs the bab 20Mar 04, 2017 7:00 am Sorry to hear had bad news with the pregnancy, I truly hope you and your wife will be ok. Awesome stuff about the retaining finally being completed GJ Gardner Modified Coolum 277 viewtopic.php?t=83643 Can you give advice on how to get missing certificates needed for a form 21? Our bank requires us to provide one but we are missing 4 building certificates from our first… 3 71804 yes it does, you've just not understood it. theres a difference. 4 5321 Your house should come in "as new" condition. It should be clean, and without stains 1 4553 |