Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Brisbane Build with Dixon 9Aug 31, 2017 6:43 pm Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: Brisbane Build with Dixon 11Sep 09, 2017 8:21 pm Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: Brisbane Build with Dixon 12Sep 09, 2017 8:40 pm Hello Joggles, Great to see another Dixon build I've enjoyed following Fleas and Rurals, the people building next to our block are building with Dixon too. Looking forward to seeing your colour selections and a start date, in regards to power points and costly little upgrades don't stress them, once you move in to the house they seem so unimportant. Looking forward to following along Re: Brisbane Build with Dixon 13Sep 10, 2017 11:01 pm Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Front view of our design. We added the facade porch because it looked a bit like a large rectangular box without it! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Some of our colour selection. Roof = Colorbond Monument Cladding = Equivalent of 'Surf Mist'. Guttering = Colorbond Terrain Bricks = PGH Savannah with off-white mortar. Render to porch pillars = Equivalent of 'Surf Mist'. We hope the 'Terrain' guttering will provide a framing line for the house and connect with the timber-look planking of the garage door {Mediterranean Caoba] and the timber entry door. Of course, this is all in our heads as we haven't seen anything with this palette together! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ This example of Savannah pic is a bit dark - the bricks are a pinky-brown colour. [Weirdly our official colour selection document with Dixon - says 'pinky-brown' in the description!] A bit later with this post than I had hoped, too many assignments to correct! Have a great week everyone! My thread can be found here - I hope! https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=89313 Re: Brisbane Build with Dixon 14Sep 10, 2017 11:03 pm ruraldoc Checking in... waiting on your selections! Hope you are having a good weekend! Thanks Rural! I was a bit held up over the weekend by a monumental pile of assignments to mark! But I've popped up a few selections to share. Hope all is tracking well at your end! My thread can be found here - I hope! https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=89313 Re: Brisbane Build with Dixon 15Sep 10, 2017 11:25 pm Tribe7 Hello Joggles, Great to see another Dixon build I've enjoyed following Fleas and Rurals, the people building next to our block are building with Dixon too. Looking forward to seeing your colour selections and a start date, in regards to power points and costly little upgrades don't stress them, once you move in to the house they seem so unimportant. Looking forward to following along Thanks Tribe! I see that you have been through quite a bit to get your latest build underway. Fingers crossed for you that it goes smoothly from here. You might have read from my first post that we started with a different builder as well and changed to ridiculous costings! We've also been through a few designs with Dixon before we settled on our current one. I look forward to following your new thread when you're ready to 'lock n load'! My thread can be found here - I hope! https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=89313 Re: Brisbane Build with Dixon 16Sep 10, 2017 11:28 pm gr8ly Joggles Yes, gr8ly very dangerous! My daughter and I have made many trips to both Costco and IKEA already I see a few more ahead of us yet! It certainly is the case with building a house that it's an expense that keeps on exponentially developing more expense! A work friend of my husband's mentioned their concern with flat profile power points and how they'd made sure these were selected as part of their electrical options - which of course cost more. Didn't even occur to my husband and I as a consideration, we've too many other 'details' to count the cost of ahead of power points! Each to their own though, if anything reading through the journeys of others on this site has shown me, it's that there are so many differing ideas of style and design out there and we all have our wishlist of lovelies that we would like to include! Hope your difficulties with the electrical are sorted soon and that there are no more hidden surprises! We have indeed completed our colour selections and once I've taken a few pics with a bit more clarity I will post them up. Have a great week! i think coming on these forums cost money to be honest, cause you always see things you never thought of to add to the build lol We are just going standard for the powerpoints.. going fancy was too expensive, but it should be easy to swap them over if we change our mind later on. We have finally finalised our electrical and colours now.. so im hoping it wont be too long till the next phase of this long journey i sometimes regret getting on. Should hopefully be worth it in the end I'm sure it will be worth it gr8ly! [Actually I think I'm also trying to convince myself!] Hope everything is chugging alone smoothly for you! My thread can be found here - I hope! https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=89313 Re: Brisbane Build with Dixon 17Sep 13, 2017 8:21 pm Hey Joggles! Love your design and colour selections for the outside! How did you go with the internal colours? One thing I didn't realise was with the WIR & the robes in he other rooms, we went the wire but weren't told that you don't get wire shelves. It's just a hanging wire shelf up high. However if we had of chose the timber/wood whatever it's classed as we would have. Lol now we are chasing down everywhere trying to find cheap draws or something to put into the boys robes How are you finding the experience so far?? Can't wait to see it all come together for you Re: Brisbane Build with Dixon 18Sep 15, 2017 11:09 pm Nice selections! I think those colours will make the outside look quite regal and Victoria! Especially as you have a two-storey! We have been so busy as well... don't even have time to stop and browse the H1 forums! Will keep my eyes peeled for more updates and progress from yours! Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: Brisbane Build with Dixon 19Sep 18, 2017 3:44 pm Well it's official. We are signed, sealed and ready to started! Commencement letter was sent from our bank to Dixon today. So I guess now we wait to see how long before it all gets underway. Thought I pop up a few more photos of the land and aspect to give an idea of why we are building a two-storey in this area. I've also included some colour selections we've made for the interior, including one of our flooring ideas. If you've seen any of the Dixon Resort inclusions before, then the bathrooms' colour palettes will come as no surprise. However, we were quite happy with these colour combinations. We are looking at vinyl planks for our kitchen, dining, and lounge area upstairs and in our entrance hallway downstairs. Karndean Hartford is our pick. Love the rustic warmth of the combination of greys with a touch of brown. Have also been out and about with the husband looking at possible lighting options - just to get an idea. Our work schedules usually preclude joint visits so I jumped at the chance and took him along to Beacon Lighting to see whether anything I liked, he might like! We actually agreed on most so we're off to a promising start! But more on that later! 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 ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ My thread can be found here - I hope! https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=89313 Re: Brisbane Build with Dixon 20Sep 18, 2017 3:52 pm fleabee86 Hey Joggles! Love your design and colour selections for the outside! How did you go with the internal colours? One thing I didn't realise was with the WIR & the robes in he other rooms, we went the wire but weren't told that you don't get wire shelves. It's just a hanging wire shelf up high. However if we had of chose the timber/wood whatever it's classed as we would have. Lol now we are chasing down everywhere trying to find cheap draws or something to put into the boys robes How are you finding the experience so far?? Can't wait to see it all come together for you Thanks for the tip re the robes Fleabee! Will look into that! Good luck with the search for the drawers. I know you can get timber-like drawers at IKEA for about $30 per drawer to fit into a frame which then fits into your wardrobe. Or you could make use of a hanging storage with 7 compartments [I think it's called SVIRA] and they're about $20. Might be ok until you find something else you like! Re the 'experience' - getting to this point has actually taken a lot, lot, lot longer than we had thought. So it has been rather frustrating so far, but we are now starting to feel like we are moving forward so YAY! 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