Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building a Doulton in Geelong 7Mar 30, 2020 5:02 pm Interesting options, I see they copied the same pendant and balustrade as the display house! The D56 standard upstairs is shorter than the downstairs. This allows options such as the one here, by swapping bedrooms and leisure, and adding a balcony, you get a few larger bedrooms, and a "public" balcony (not via the master bedroom). Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Standard Doulton 56. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Rear leisure and balcony option. The curved staircase is standard on the D56, and optional on the 46 and 50. There is a narrow path between the balustrade and Bed3 so it doesn't appear as spacious as when the leisure room is there, but that's only the path to the master bedroom. This is not our plan, as ours is the D50, but still being finalised. Re: Building a Doulton in Geelong 8Mar 30, 2020 8:12 pm We wanted to have a balcony at the front also, but that would push the house back 1M more, and we would have to screen the balcony (and probably the outdoor room also) to avoid the overlooking! It's nice to put Christmas deco at the balcony at the front, space for tree and lights! Reading from posts by others, we are copying and having 2.7M ceilings downstairs and 2.55M upstairs (sort of compensates for not being able to build the 56sq)! Of course this also means some additional changes with window and door heights to match! M did some Geosite 3D modelling to show the fall and problems. The first screen dumps here are front and RH side views. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ And the rear view: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Although these are for the 56sq, not the 50, but you can see the problem of falling off the outdoor room! Originally they said we would need a balustrade around it, or steps down to the ground level, but now they have extended the ground and moved the retaining wall out away from the house so the ground is nearly level with the floor: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building a Doulton in Geelong 9Mar 31, 2020 1:26 pm The only other problem with having the Mode facade is that you lose about 1M from the master bedroom width, but it was either that or lose the view from the rear balcony! And I didn't see the point of an "upstairs" outdoor room with no view. The portico and upstairs area protrudes out from the front of the house, and this is what has to be at least 4M from the front boundary (for our council anyway). Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We did look around at other blocks recently, to see if there was something with a view, large size, and reasonably flat, but when you buy a block in an empty area, you can never be sure if someone will build a big house and block your view in the future! The only advantage of being first build in an area is that you can go as close to the boundaries as council permits, as there is no overlooking or overshadowing issues onto vacant land! Re: Building a Doulton in Geelong 10Mar 31, 2020 5:28 pm Just had an email that final contract signing will be from June 24th. Our electrical and colours appointments are the end of May! Re: Building a Doulton in Geelong 11Apr 08, 2020 10:20 pm Hi, I was just going through your posts and was happy to see that someone else is also building Doulton in Geelong. We are building in Highton. Where are you building? Our studio appointments are on 19th and 20th May. I look forward to hearing from you. Cheers Tanya Re: Building a Doulton in Geelong 12Apr 21, 2020 5:32 am I ended up having to take leave from work as I had excess, and they wanted me to take it before June 30. I tried to get studio appointments in that same week in May that we had before I changed it, but they are all booked out! Building business must be booming! Re: Building a Doulton in Geelong 14Jun 13, 2020 2:05 am Well, after much back and forward emails, questions, and last minute changes, we finally got our electrical quote docusigned, so that's out of the way now. Just waiting on the final colours and plans, then they can start preparing the contract! It's been a long and hectic two months so far! Re: Building a Doulton in Geelong 15Jun 13, 2020 4:59 pm Thats great to hear, we haven't yet finished electricals as we are still waiting on prices of some hanging lights. With colors and plans, we are still working on our bathrooms. I must say we are finding it very hectic. Hope to navigate through this well. Best Tanya Re: Building a Doulton in Geelong 16Jun 13, 2020 11:15 pm We are having battens put in for the dining and kitchen, and adding additional pendants after handover. And a junction box at the ceiling above the stairs for a chandelier installation later also. We were almost going to go ahead with the same as the Doulton display, but we wanted something more contemporary and unique! We found some great ones on eBay, just waiting for a reply from seller with the weight, to advise M so that the appropriate support structure will be there. It's always a problem when you want your own lights, not the standard ones! Re: Building a Doulton in Geelong 17Jun 13, 2020 11:44 pm TanyaK Thats great to hear, we haven't yet finished electricals as we are still waiting on prices of some hanging lights. With colors and plans, we are still working on our bathrooms. I must say we are finding it very hectic. Hope to navigate through this well. Best Tanya And just when you think you have it all worked out, then they tell you there is more to select! Especially the bathrooms, with tiles, vanity sinks, taps, power points, lights, fans, shower frames, shower head type, exhaust fans, toilet types, standard single or double towel rails or heated towel rails, toilet roll holders, cupboard doors & handles, kickboards or suspended cupboards, drawers or shelves, LED light mirrors or standard, standard tiling, 2.1 metre or floor to ceiling tiles, entry door handles, paint colours, heating options, I've even seen LED lights in the shower niche on others! You have to think about the needs in the minor bathrooms also, little girls grow up and become teens, and need good lighting for doing makeup too! We had 6 versions of the final electrical quote before we got it exactly the way we wanted, but it had to be finalised and signed by 5pm yesterday, and even the final version had a few mistakes, I wanted sensors on the front outside lights, and remove the dimmers! So it got submitted about 5:30pm being all correct, and about 7:30pm we got an email from Kellie that the CCTV supplier quote had come in higher than the original quote (due to camera upgrades, 2 extra required power points and remote view option), so they had to fix the prices again, and cancel and resubmit the revised quote! Needless to say we are already $30K over our original top price. If we had been able to get the government grant, then we would have taken out a few more things, but as it is for house AND land value less than $750K, not just house, then there wasn't any point! Re: Building a Doulton in Geelong 19Jun 15, 2020 2:41 pm We'll have about 6M to the retaining wall, which is 1.7M above the ground below and 3M from the back fence. We are hoping we can put in another retaining wall along the fence and put decking over the "pit" that is going to be there, and then maybe put some decorations and a wall there, plants or something, so we can use that area. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ There are limitations and restrictions on what you can build over and nearby to easements, and the sewer is 1M from the back fence, and stormwater is 2M, hence the 3M "exclusion zone". Re: Building a Doulton in Geelong 20Jun 18, 2020 11:11 am We have only now finalised our electrical quote, I guess being busy with the work gives us very little time to spend on this. Anyways, we have also now decided to not go with the staircase pendant as in display but have ask M to put provision in place for pendant to be put later on. We are actually kind of tired seeing it in the display all the time and it doesn't excite us anymore. Yes, we certainly have less backyard but will have some space in the front of the house which will compensate for it. I see you have a nice big backyard, may be we will come to yours for bbq once we are neighbours!!!! Cheers Tanya 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 10662 Thanks for your reply. I will just wait and see I guess. Trying to get some more information from our builder. 9 29913 |