Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with fowler homes 15Mar 14, 2017 1:02 pm newwyhouse2233 faykis Yes Galleria with loft option in MArsden P. thesephotos are from Gallaria. May be this looks better when i compare with Moroccans void over living area. I am confused now lol Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ It is soo nice!! Thanks so much! I know i cant decide if i like the void over living or if i want a cosier living space and more open dining space. The good thing about the paris is that the void will face the east so i will get the lovely morning sun in winter and those cool summer breezes... Our block backs onto a nature reserve so we have lovely bush views so i'm trying to maximise the views with the house as well... So many decisions, luckily i have some time until i have to finalise that decision! Where abouts are you building? What is your favourite plan? HI Lucky you got bush views! In Sydney, the only view will be houses and buildings lol. Did you decide on a design yet. I know its a tough decision. We are building in western Sydney area, Schofields suburb. Havana 32 is the design that i love most. Its just so much daylight, lots of feature walls , open space living in ground floor etc. But Paris 32 is more practical and good use of floor space I guess, giving value to the cost /m2. Also looking at Hemisphere, good utilisation of space and value for money. would love to visit its display which will be opening in 4 weeks. All these designs have vertically placed free standing staircase, which can be converted to feature staircase. However may have to cross off the staircase plan, as we are worried that these costly upgrades will not be considered during bank valuation. Schofields is a new suburb, new houses mostly getting build cheaply. most of the newly builts for 5 bedroom houses are on 350/375m2 lands, selling for 890/900k on house and land package. Our block is 470m2 and the total price is 1.05m with the facade, voids, staircase. I think we will have trouble with home valuation for loan purpose. Problem everywhere Re: Building with fowler homes 16Mar 15, 2017 9:31 am faykis newwyhouse2233 faykis Yes Galleria with loft option in MArsden P. thesephotos are from Gallaria. May be this looks better when i compare with Moroccans void over living area. I am confused now lol Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ It is soo nice!! Thanks so much! I know i cant decide if i like the void over living or if i want a cosier living space and more open dining space. The good thing about the paris is that the void will face the east so i will get the lovely morning sun in winter and those cool summer breezes... Our block backs onto a nature reserve so we have lovely bush views so i'm trying to maximise the views with the house as well... So many decisions, luckily i have some time until i have to finalise that decision! Where abouts are you building? What is your favourite plan? HI Lucky you got bush views! In Sydney, the only view will be houses and buildings lol. Did you decide on a design yet. I know its a tough decision. We are building in western Sydney area, Schofields suburb. Havana 32 is the design that i love most. Its just so much daylight, lots of feature walls , open space living in ground floor etc. But Paris 32 is more practical and good use of floor space I guess, giving value to the cost /m2. Also looking at Hemisphere, good utilisation of space and value for money. would love to visit its display which will be opening in 4 weeks. All these designs have vertically placed free standing staircase, which can be converted to feature staircase. However may have to cross off the staircase plan, as we are worried that these costly upgrades will not be considered during bank valuation. Schofields is a new suburb, new houses mostly getting build cheaply. most of the newly builts for 5 bedroom houses are on 350/375m2 lands, selling for 890/900k on house and land package. Our block is 470m2 and the total price is 1.05m with the facade, voids, staircase. I think we will have trouble with home valuation for loan purpose. Problem everywhere /quote] Yes making the decision is hard especially since they have so many great options with the plans... Im thinking the hemisphere 35 at the moment, its going to give me the best of both worlds. With the variation of butlers pantry/mudroom/laundry and also the grand ensuite, aslong as they can flip the master to the rear... but from my calculations we should be able to get everything we want with the emporium package and a few window upgrades etc for about 450,000 maybe pushing it to 455,000, their new autumn deal is great and will cut some costs from our electrical... Yeah our suburb is kind of the same although its a mixture of some expensive builds and then lots of investment rental properties that where built although our inlaws just built down the road and only built a 1 story on a block half the size of ours and they spent waaaay over our budget so hopefully we get approved. Have a look at the things you can do after handover, maybe you can eventually do the staircase later if it is freestanding? Do less electrical upstairs to save some money and do it later, to Originally i was going to get the most fabulous facade but now we realised that most of the houses around us are very simple with their facades and if we dont spend any money on it we can have a more beautiful inside...we will get one of our friends to render it and i will put a pergola of somesort out the front of the main wall to give it some character... Im exited with fowler with all the inclusions with emporium though like floor to ceiling tiling, polyurethane cupboards in kitchen and bathroom, those kinds of things, with the other company i was looking at i would have never got those for the cost i am paying for fowler, so it will be nice to have a nicely finished house on the inside! We are going to do flooring (either timber laminate or planks) ourselves in the downstairs (except for cinema/wet areas) and on the stairs, hallway and living upstairs (will shave about 8-9g off our cost) we are lucky as we have a friend that can do our flooring at cost price, so we can get something we love and just pay cash for that after... Re: Building with fowler homes 17Mar 16, 2017 5:20 pm Hi Newwy i agree on the facade decision. We are also thinking of getting a simplier one and render it later, put some ledgestone etc later on. Again lucky you, having known people who can do your flooring for a lower cost! For us, not sure whether it will be worth the hassle of gettinv flooring done afterwards. We dont know anyone, so may not get a good tiler!! We wont add any more cupboard , less electricals in the upstairs for now. Did you look at the free aircon option? Is that enough for the size you are building? If you are upgrading it, what cost will you be looking at? What kind of roof option do they have with the emporium pack? Best of luck on desciding on the house design. I am waiting to see hemisphere when it opens. Kind of knocked out havana from the list. Paris is another oprion for me Re: Building with fowler homes 18Mar 22, 2017 12:15 pm I did a preselection walk through at tiles direct yesterday, even though we havent locked everything in i just wanted to see what my options were so i can budget. Anyways i wasnt overly impressed with the choices as standard but since i really dont want to spend money upgrading tiles i think i found a compromise. So i thought i would share my tile choice plus what other bathroom choices i have narrowed it down to. I have decided to do exact same tiles in all bathrooms, powder room and laundry (i think i did make another post in bathrooms asking about other people who did exact same in all rooms) You will see pics below of my choices also the bathroom cabinets i found the pic on here from another home builder..the cabinets will be similar or maybe slightly darker grey, with silestone gris expo (or bianco river but i am unsure if that will look too busy with the marble effect of the tiles) Also i can decide on tapware we have the emporium package so we get the alder taya range but i like a few in the cheaper ranges too I like the idea of darker bathrooms, i think it gives it a more luxury feel and also with the marble effect less soap marks will show (i hope) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building with fowler homes 19Mar 22, 2017 12:36 pm I really like the tiles in the bathroom photo. I always wanted something like this. I will go with same tiles for all 3 bathrooms too. It that something from their standard range? Did you look at the timber laminated floorings? Were they any good? Love the taps and mixers newwyhouse2233 I did a preselection walk through at tiles direct yesterday, even though we havent locked everything in i just wanted to see what my options were so i can budget. Anyways i wasnt overly impressed with the choices as standard but since i really dont want to spend money upgrading tiles i think i found a compromise. So i thought i would share my tile choice plus what other bathroom choices i have narrowed it down to. I have decided to do exact same tiles in all bathrooms, powder room and laundry (i think i did make another post in bathrooms asking about other people who did exact same in all rooms) You will see pics below of my choices also the bathroom cabinets i found the pic on here from another home builder..the cabinets will be similar or maybe slightly darker grey, with silestone gris expo (or bianco river but i am unsure if that will look too busy with the marble effect of the tiles) Also i can decide on tapware we have the emporium package so we get the alder taya range but i like a few in the cheaper ranges too I like the idea of darker bathrooms, i think it gives it a more luxury feel and also with the marble effect less soap marks will show (i hope) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building with fowler homes 20Mar 22, 2017 12:41 pm faykis I really like the tiles in the bathroom photo. I always wanted something like this. I will go with same tiles for all 3 bathrooms too. It that something from their standard range? Did you look at the timber laminated floorings? Were they any good? Love the taps and mixers newwyhouse2233 I did a preselection walk through at tiles direct yesterday, even though we havent locked everything in i just wanted to see what my options were so i can budget. Anyways i wasnt overly impressed with the choices as standard but since i really dont want to spend money upgrading tiles i think i found a compromise. So i thought i would share my tile choice plus what other bathroom choices i have narrowed it down to. I have decided to do exact same tiles in all bathrooms, powder room and laundry (i think i did make another post in bathrooms asking about other people who did exact same in all rooms) You will see pics below of my choices also the bathroom cabinets i found the pic on here from another home builder..the cabinets will be similar or maybe slightly darker grey, with silestone gris expo (or bianco river but i am unsure if that will look too busy with the marble effect of the tiles) Also i can decide on tapware we have the emporium package so we get the alder taya range but i like a few in the cheaper ranges too I like the idea of darker bathrooms, i think it gives it a more luxury feel and also with the marble effect less soap marks will show (i hope) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The picture of just the tiles at the very bottom are included in standard, the picture of the bathroom is just something i found on here for an example of the cabinets... I didnt look at the floorboards and laminate because we are going to do them ourselves... I took photos of all the standard included tiles in the emporium range please see pics below... i assume they are the same everywhere... Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The long subway tiles are standard although you have to pay $350 extra to get them laid in a brickstyle pattern!! Which i think is crazy i would have loved subway tiles but i dont want to pay that! I would never build with Fowler homes. I built with them in 2021 and till date maintenance issues are pending. All their existing trades and businesses don't work with… 14 109073 Anyone built with Fowler Homes? Feedback? Especially any things concerning or negatives? Have heard some horror… 0 9545 Hi there! 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