Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building a Clarendon parkhill 29 in Brisbane 19Aug 16, 2017 8:50 pm jaylex Hello Everyone, We have also chosen the design of Clarendon Parkhill in 34, building in northeast Brisbane. Like elleimac here, we did love the idea of having the staircase tucked away behind the kitchen. We got our quote after listing all our "must have's" and shied away when we got the price. We started to look elsewhere, with another builder who had the exact same design. In the end, the Parkhill 34 was much more competitive in price and the consultant was pleasant to deal with. We are now in the tendering process sorting out all the tiny details. Not fun. Extras we included: Grand Alfresco with extended concrete Added Bathroom downstairs Sliding doors to the Living Room next to the study. Converted WIP to Butler's pantry Upgraded a few items in the kitchen. like undermount sink & glass splashback (I don't enjoy cleaning the grout) We're still waiting for our Land to be registered which is expected to be from Jan to March 2018. (A long time to wait but it's already Aug !) A little nervous about extra costs after the soil test. I look forward to seeing all of your future posts in here. Hey! We are building in Newport, is that a similar area to you? Our land has just been bumped back from a sept registration to November. Hoping it's not further than that! I agree we are fans of the tucked away stairs. Love the idea of not making a feature of them. We also added a door to the front lounge room and added the shower downstairs. We also went the undermount sink. Haven't decided what to do with the splashback. But I'm not great with cleaning our granite one we have now. We have done our tender revisions, which I want to revise again now. Joys of having so much time to think. Re: Building a Clarendon parkhill 29 in Brisbane 20Aug 16, 2017 8:54 pm cm4 Hi fellow Parkhill People!, So we have decided on the Parkhill 29. We are in the process of going to tender and are just waiting on a few extra costings. We are just waiting on estimates for moving a wall 500mm in one of the bedrooms to make it bigger, and are entertaining the idea of closing in the alfresco and doing a deck and patio type thing on the back ourselves after handover. Also maybe getting the garage plus where there make it bigger for extra storage. But this will all come down to price!! So we have added/upgraded: Sapphire Kitchen - under mount sink, 900mm bench, cupboards above the rangehood Higher ceilings on the ground floor Larger front door Sliding door to study Stone top to powder room Stacker doors to alfresco if we don't close it in Is anyone adding the full stackers to the alfresco area? Like what they have in the displays (usually in bi folds) where you can open the whole walls to the outside? I love it but don't know how practical it is when you add flyscreens etc Also has the finishing under the stairs such as plaster, paint and tiles been included in your tender/pricing? I don't think it is in ours. Anywho - looking forward to keeping up to date with everyone's progress. We are doing the cornerless stacking doors with recessed tracks. The tracks have a track just for flyscreens so you can add them in later. I haven't even looked into that yet. I'm not so much a fan of them when the track isn't recessed though, it's more like an annoying step to trip on if it's raised. Ours are just shy of 7k I think. But we feel they really add that alfresco into the house. I asked our sales rep and the under the stairs is all finished like the rest of the laundry as per the display homes. I was also wondering if it was or not. the stair balustrades? There is nothing special about these and I imagine literally every stair installer will be able to do this. 1 7088 The two 15mm holes are obviously not compliant. The Dept of Fair Trading would love to see this one! Do the gutters pool water after it stops raining? Although it's… 4 8213 Hello Josh, This is Irving from PRIMA, we are a manufacturer of the staircase, railings, kitchen cabinets, windows, doors from China. If you have requirement to purchase… 0 5731 |