Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11236Oct 22, 2018 9:03 pm s-X-s MrsAJ Hi Everyone, We finished our tile appointment and waiting for cost and as expected change of mind. Any tips just before going for colour selection at gold coast would be much appreciated. We are just blank. We have chosen Forest Natural wood look tile for main areas. What about inner wall colour to match? Cabinet colours. Kitchen benchtop is ice snow. Any suggestions for vanity benchtop colours? How much is the toilet upgrade? Black dual shower pricing? Is there only one option for pullout bin? We just went once to Gold coast as it was very difficult with toddler tantrums 🤷♀️🤦♀️ Thanks everyone for helping with the Tiles 😊 First of all, all the best for your color selection. Don't feel blankk - look at pre-start color selection pdf which should have been sent to you by now. Have some ideas about color matching - from roof tiles, gutter, fascia down to external wall (if it bricks its color or if render paint color, garage door. Try giving some contrast to wall and garage door. Interior walls (only one color is allowed basic - any additional color incur additional costs), skirting board, squar set colors - we did with slight variation colors. We did match Kitchen bench top stone (night sky) and overhead cupboards (but with variatiob back to dark-grey) and total contrast to under bench with polar white glossy (upgrade) and same to island bench. You can do same for back panel of island bench depending on floor colors - Contrast bench to back panel. So on.... Watch time - you are likely to spend/take long on initial items like roof, bricks, doors etc as they are selected first. But move on as kitchen/cupboards etc needs bit time as they have lot of options (cupboards) to select from. Keep your calculator (phone) - add upgrade costs as you go and you will have some ideas how much left in ur allowances/target. Remember, each and every item has options to upgrade and have some ideas about which and where you are going to upgrade (but you can delete upgrades during, but might be loosing time as well)... Hi s-X-s, Thank you so much for your time and your suggestions. We did look at our prestart pdf and have finalised few things but still not sure on the colours as it looks way too different in visualiser, pintrest and booklets That's a great tip to have a calculator open and i will surely keep calculating the cost as and when they let us know. thanks for that Here are few things we have finalised: Facade - Mornington Roof - Basalt Gutter - Monument or Basalt (Any suggestions) Fascia - Surfmist Outer Render colours (Near Garage and Door) - White(not sure which white never knew there are so..................many whites) Pier Render - Something Darker to match the Roof ( Any suggestions) Door Colour - Ebony or Rich Chocolate (I love the darker doors, not sure how it looks in person) Floor - Forest Natural Tile in Brickbond (That's what our Tile designer said us) Some say 1/3 offset. Grout - So confusing whether to go with Standard or upgrade Silk grout colour? Here comes more confusion..................... Kitchen benchtop sticking with standard - Ice Snow Breakfast bar panel - White or Match the flooring??? Cabinets - Lower thinking of going white and upper something darker (Any suggestions) I am not sure the difference between Silk and Standard white cabinet. Bricks - First thought lighter shade as our roof is slightly dark. But then reading forum came to know Off white mortar is upgrade cost. Now have to think of some brick to match the standard mortar????? Internal Colour something lighter shade, again not sure whther white based or grey based (Any suggestion) Sorry for clogging this page with our selections Can I see your kitchen pictures please. Do you have a forum page of ur build? Thanks once again!! Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11237Oct 23, 2018 8:44 am Mrs AJ, Not sure what windows colours you are looking at, but we did Coal Tiles, Monument Gutter, Surfmist Fascia, Surfmist Windows, Surfmist Garage Door, Merbau front door, Linseed render, Mt Eden Pillars. This could be a similar look that you are looking for. What colour window frames are you thinking? We tossed up between surfmist and monument and decided on surfmist as we liked the way the door frames worked with the floor colour. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ This could help for the lighter brick colour you are looking for the rest of the house. We got the Silk cupboard doors for overhead cupboards, above the fridge and the gable between the fridge and the bench top was around $450. That was the photo I put on your page. With regards to wall colour, go into display homes and work out what tones you like, whether they have more of a grey undertone or a brown undertone. The girls at the colour centre are really good with that. We had Mel and I told her that I liked the wall colour of the display at Hervey Bay and she was able to find out exactly what shade it was. This is our link - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=91042&start=280 Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11238Oct 23, 2018 3:47 pm Hi everyone. Hope your builds are going well. Keen to hear from anyone who is at Fair Trading or NCAT with Coral. I’m just ticking the box of getting through fair trading which NCAT require before they will hear your case. Two years post handover and Coral still have about 80 defects outstanding, some they are ok to fix (if I have ANOTHER WEEK OFF WORK) and others they are disputing. Absolutely disgusting service and standards. What they think is ‘acceptable’ in terms of workmanship is hilarious- they are sending out a building inspector to have a look next week. They are simply embarrassing themselves! Anyway would love to hear from you. M Y C U S T O M C O R A L B R O N T E 43 ...............Kitchen! 16 Nov 2016 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79581 Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11239Oct 23, 2018 3:48 pm Hi all, Does anyone know how the tile appointments work? When upgarding outside of standard ranges do they charge the price you see on the tile as extra amount or does coral have a standard amount per sqm that they use to charge the difference from the standard to upgrade tile? Hope that makes sense! Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11240Oct 23, 2018 4:00 pm Kevinmarques89 Hi all, Does anyone know how the tile appointments work? When upgarding outside of standard ranges do they charge the price you see on the tile as extra amount or does coral have a standard amount per sqm that they use to charge the difference from the standard to upgrade tile? Hope that makes sense! Hi Kevinmarques89, We are also trying to figure out how they calculate. They just gave us the final amount for choosing a non standard 600x600 tile. There is calculations. We will ring them tomorrow and find out how it's been calculated. Will let you know if they give us a proper answer. We went with National Tiles. When is ur Tile appointment? Good Luck! You should check your detail drawings, it may show downpipe within brick pier. 14 14411 Ask the council if there is a chance of getting build over easement exemption. Sometimes easements are unused and 24cm is not all that much. Good luck. And yes any builder… 2 14695 In Qld it is a requirement that a builder must have a cost breakdown, for building a home to the same specification, with the same inclusions and the same finish. So ask… 1 4729 |