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 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 6Feb 14, 2017 10:18 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 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 71807 yes it does, you've just not understood it. theres a difference. 4 5322 Your house should come in "as new" condition. It should be clean, and without stains 1 4553 |