Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building the Zanzibar 45 with Metricon 23May 21, 2019 8:54 pm G-K Hi Zanzibar, I am deciding on building zanzibar45 and was looking for some reviews... how happy are with your build and would you like to suggest something to me Thanks Hi G-K, Sorry about the late reply but we are very happy with the house! My advice to you would be to make sure to remember the little details of the house as that is often what the site manager forgets. I found it was extremely important to be in constant contact with the site manager to ensure we understood what was going on and the house was progressing well. It also allowed us to pick up on mistakes early in the process. Re: Building the Zanzibar 45 with Metricon 24May 21, 2019 8:55 pm fiat10 Hi Zanzibar, I hope that you’re at or near completion by now! Do you have any updated photos that you could share of your progress? Hi fiat10, Yep! I am just about to post an update with pictures of the house Re: Building the Zanzibar 45 with Metricon 25May 21, 2019 10:24 pm What's happened since I last posted?
It's been a while since I last updated this page but the house has nearly finished now! We had our final inspection with the site manager and Darbecca last month and waiting on the rectifications to be completed. Re: Building the Zanzibar 45 with Metricon 26May 23, 2019 8:53 am Looks fantastic zanzibar_45, love your feature pier on your balcony Re: Building the Zanzibar 45 with Metricon 27May 08, 2020 6:55 pm Hi Zanzibar hope you are enjoying your home! We’d love to see how calacatta gold benchtop and yukun in the cooktop has turned out for yout kitchen. I am thinking of the same!! I am guessing your kitchen must be looking stunning. Please share some photos. Thanks Zanzibar_45 Updates! It has been a while since I updated, but I'm back! Since my last post, we have completed all our appointments, signed the contracts and are now awaiting council approval. Hopefully, we can be on site soon but fingers crossed! I have attached a couple of pictures of our selections down below. We really wanted this house to be light and bright, but cozy and comfortable too. The whole idea behind this house was to create an atmosphere that felt crisp and clean but did not detract from the familial element that an inhabited house should have. We really wanted the kitchen to be a focal point of the home. It is where we spend most of our time when it is just our family and when we are hosting. We decided to splurge and use 'Calacatta Gold' for our island bench and side panels of the island bench. We decided to use 'Yukon' for the rest of the benchtops as it is much more subtle and allows the island bench to be the feature. Initially, we chose this grey patterned splashback but it just felt so out of place in the kitchen. So, we visited Beaumont Tiles, the main tile supplier of Metricon, and were able to pick out a design that we liked and felt matched the colour scheme of the kitchen. We decided with the 'Bloom Beige Blend Gloss' that has also been attached. For our tiles, we were initially quoted $18,000 for the bottom floor, excluding bathrooms! However, after speaking with a few of our friends who have also built homes, we decided to outsource and were quoted at $10,000 and even given a $500 discount which brought the price down to $9,500 (supply + installation). At first, we were hesitant as it honestly sounded too good to be true, but testimonials from our friends helped to rid us of any fear. We decided to remove carpet from Metricon and outsource as well! We were quoted at $8,000 for carpet to the first floor, but through the same company we were able to have laminate to the entire first floor for $1,500 (supply + installation)! Ultimately, we saved approximately $15,000 by outsourcing!! If there's a lesson to be taught here, it is that if you do a bit of research and talk to some people then you can save so much money!! For bathrooms, we decided to go with full wall tiling for Powder 1, and 2.1m wall tiling for the rest of the bathrooms. We picked the 'Horizon Crema' for the wall tiles and the tile on top of that one for the floors - I can't see the name :C. 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 ⋅ For externals, we chose 'Coastal Stone' from the brick. We decided against upgrading the brick as we wanted to have the front of the house rendered. The lighter colour, 'Hog Bristle Quarter' is the colour we chose for the main render and the darker colour, 'Self-Destruct' was chosen for the feature render. Hog Bristle Quarter appears white in the picture, but in reality it is a bit more towards cream. For the garage door, we decided against going for a timber looking garage door and instead went with 'Paperbark'. We decided against going for a timber-looking garage door as we have masonry on a pier of the house and wanted this to be the focal point. Unfortunately, this masonry cost an eye-watering amount but we decided to go ahead as we loved it way too much! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Well, I guess that's all for now!! Hopefully, everything we picked matches and achieves the look we are aiming for. It was so hard to visualise everything together but we tried our best! I would love to hear all your thoughts on this as well as selections that you chose! - Zanzibar_45 Hi, First of all, thank you to this community for sharing your thoughts and opinions. We are in early days of our pre-contract stage for Metricon Doulton and we are… 0 10749 Hello All 🙂 We are planning to start our journey of construction our first home. We zeroed down on Metricon and henley homes based on design suitable for our lot and… 0 8200 We don’t live in VIC so want to know the exterior colours of Lumiere display so we can see it at the paint shop. Not building with Metricon so my request went… 0 17332 |