Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Our sea change forever dream home. Allworth Avalon / Son 3Aug 06, 2017 8:07 am Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Our sea change forever dream home. Allworth Avalon / Son 12Sep 08, 2017 9:28 pm We had our appointment on Sunday, made the few changes we had wanted and signed to go to the certifier for CDC. They've already been updated at head office, emailed to me and we signed off on those too. I have already had a call for colours, which I'm doing on Tuesday morning then tiles later in the afternoon Very exciting, bring it on! Our sea change forever dream home. Allworth Avalon / Sonata 13Sep 13, 2017 8:32 am Yesterday's selections!
It was quite a fun day out and my Aunt came along for company and to help. I booked internal selections in the morning and tiles after lunch and we had time for a lovely cafe lunch in between. Tiles, tempo charcoal. Gloss for walls, matt for floors, and rough finish for front porch. I can't remember the name of the feature tiles but this is for the shower niches with silver trim. We are doing vinyl planks after handover to the whole house including bedrooms as it's close to the water, have lots of animals and I just hate carpet. We've got a really good quote here in sydney and will go down the coast to lay it at no extra cost. We only have to book it in a month before, so we won't finalise colour the choice until then. I think that will be good because I will have s feel for the house since it will be close to finshed by then Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Wattyl Solver washable 3 coat paint system, Wattyl White for architraves, ceiling, cornices and doors Low Cloud for Media Room and all Bedrooms Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Soft Apparition for all living areas, bathroom and laundry, and anywhere else I can’t think of Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We chose a pretty basic build package because we are renting the house out for a year or two first so will be redoing a lot of stuff when we move in, like putting stone in the kitchen, nice lighting, ducted air con, and fitting out the butlers pantry. We have upgraded anything that can't be done later but left everything we can, like shower niches, capped off plumbing in pantry and alfresco, sound proofing etc. I upgraded all taps to flick mixers for this reason, $120 each x 4 and chose this nice bath spout / mixer combo for $315 , I asked about the nice big shower heads with the 2 heads, one fixed and one small movable that are about $300 at bathroom fitting stores, they were $750 (ouch) I'll get them when we move in lol. I upgraded to long double towel rails $30 x 2 and also nice sturdy toilet roll holders $15 x 2, the included ones were very thin and flimsy looking. The last thing I upgraded was frosting in the front door glass $30, no idea why this wasn't included! 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 ⋅ I also remembered to take pictures of my brick and roof tiles. PGH Gibson Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Monier Horizon flat profile in Barramundi Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Gutters are Monument to match the roof tiles Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Fascia, panelling, garage door, front and laundry door paint, all windspray Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Windows were originally windspray but changed to Monument when we submitted the plans to have dark stacker doors Re: Our sea change forever dream home. Allworth Avalon / Son 15Sep 14, 2017 8:29 pm Gorgeous selections!!! Great idea about vinyl all through the house What does your front door look like? Our sea change forever dream home. Allworth Avalon / Sonata 16Sep 14, 2017 9:46 pm charlibear Gorgeous selections!!! Great idea about vinyl all through the house What does your front door look like? Front door is exactly the same as I have in this house. Standard size with 4 pieces of glass, painted with colourbond windspray to match the garage door. Our sea change forever dream home. Allworth Avalon / Sonata 17Sep 23, 2017 11:14 am My update for this week Strangely discovered our plans were submitted to council on their DA tracker last week while checking on our extra garage. They’ve gone through the vetting process and neighbours have been notified, I don’t think much will happen until the expiry date for neighbours notifications. I was surprised as we were told all along we’d go through CDC. I had a whole heap of vinyl plank samples from Karndean delivered and I layed they out at work so we’ve spent a few days looking at them and both fell in love with the same one. It’s called Stamford. This is it Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ And this is it in a room with similar paint colours to what I’ve chosen Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I’ve spoken to Allworth and am now having the darker grey called Low Cloud that I’d chosen for the Media room to now be in all the bedrooms also, and keeping the very light grey called Soft Apparition everywhere else Now the most exciting part of my week was my kitchen appoint yesterday! I kept with my plan of polar white cabinets in matt. First we have the fridge spot on the left, then we are installing an appliance tower so I won’t need to bend for the oven or microwave with 2 pot drawers underneath and next to that is two lots of wider 2 deep, 1 shallow pot drawers, on top of them is the cooktop on the bench, next to that is the door to my butlers pantry I changed the other bench into an Island as it was attached to the wall originally and reduced the length from 3.3m to 3m so I won’t have a join in my stone bench top. Now because the kitchen juts out into the dining and living areas I left the end on the outer corner without a cupboard underneath for the first 30cm so you can use the end of the Island to sit at also, like this picture below Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Facing the bench the dishwasher is on the right, with a two bowl under bench sink and I bought a pull out tap to swap when we move in already so we will have the upgraded mixer tap that it comes with until then. Under the sink is your standard cupboard, next to that is a set of pot drawers 1.05m wide! They will house my cutlery and plates etc. There’s a few cupboards deleted by doing this plan but my butlers pantry is 3.6m x 1.8 m and we will have full bench and cupboards along one side and the other wall will be 3.6m of shelving! I’ve chosen jet black caesar stone for the bench tops with a waterfall end on the side without seating. We are doing the splash back after handover and I plan on choosing glossy black plainish tiles to keep with the black and white theme. I have requested a quote for the jet black Caesarstone as a splash back too, hoping it’s not too expensive since that benchtop is much smaller due to the appliance tower taking up a 3rd of what would’ve been bench space. The back and seating side of the Island cabinetry will be done in Polar White also, I had thought to change is to Polytec Aluminium because of scuff marks but went back to white after a week of agonising over it. I kept my bathroom cabinets polar white but switched them to polytec sheen and upgraded to floating. Handles will match my lower kitchen cabinetry and upper cabinets will be handle less Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We also did our electrical plan end of last week. We’ve added 3 in 1 heat lights to both bathrooms, an extra TV point in the living off the kitchen, power points to both sides of the Island and exhaust fans in the laundry and butlers pantry. We didn’t change other power points to double as we will upgrade almost all of the power points to doubles with USB ourselves after handover because we want to future proof the house and can do those and all the fancy lighting himself. The power points that really needed to be doubles already were. So all I need to do now is get the kitchen all costed and drawn up and DA to be approved and we ate ready to go! The kitchen quote is expected to take 2 weeks and my sales guy said his last one at Shoalhaven council took about 6ish weeks. Re: Our sea change forever dream home. Allworth Avalon / Son 18Oct 07, 2017 8:44 pm We’ve come down to the coast this weekend and visited our block. We had such a lovely surprise when we got there. Our rear neighbours have put up a fence which is our back/their front side fence, they’ve done all the work and not asking for any money, saying they wanted to help out because they know building is expensive. Another plus is it’s exactly the kind of fence we had discussed with them and wanted. They’ve even planted a couple of lovely flowering creepers to fill it in. That’s one less job we have to do over the Christmas holidays which is fantastic! Neighbour vetting has been completed for our DA and we are having our plans fixed up to have a 7.5m front setback as per councils request, we’d submitted it with 6.5 or 7, and they should be completed and sent in within a week. I’m still waiting for my kitchen quote but am pretty sure that is coming early next week, our kitchen guy was in contact on Friday getting our requests right for the estimations team so I had answered all his questions as they came through. Not much else to report other than the fact that every time I see our block I just love it more and more! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89059 Our sea change forever dream home. Allworth Avalon / Sonata 19Oct 11, 2017 3:14 pm We received our kitchen quote today. Ive changed the sink to 2 double bowls with no drip tray. All the cabinetry was reasonably priced so I’m getting all my pot drawers and appliance tower and upgraded it to Laminex Silk in Polar White. I’m excited that the only cupboard on the bottom is the one under the sink and everything else is pot drawers. I love them!
We said no to the caesarstone and have decided to just go for 180FX Carrera Matte in Absolute Matte finish. It looks really gorgeous, I considered going for the same but in diamond gloss finish but was advised it scratched and the kitchen place wouldn’t warrant it. We have caesarstone at our current house and have already had 2 cracks repairs and a bunch of chips. The crack repairs look horrible though, so my husband was really against getting stone again due to this. I think our benches are either osprey or more likely ocean foam I was hoping that maybe we just got a bad batch. We weren’t able to claim warranty because the previous owner had put in the new kitchen to sell and he didn’t give us all of the receipts viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89059 Re: Our sea change forever dream home. Allworth Avalon / Son 20Oct 17, 2017 7:36 am Just read though your thread. Love all your choices and floor plan. What a beautiful part of the world you'll be moving to. You made the right choice going for the island bench 😉 Sounds like you're on a very similar timeframe to us. We are currently almost 7 weeks in council and praying we hear some news this week!! Also waiting on the kitchen plans to come back. 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 71736 yes it does, you've just not understood it. theres a difference. 4 5206 Your house should come in "as new" condition. It should be clean, and without stains 1 4544 |