Browse Forums General Discussion Re: KDR - Clarendon Stamford 38 2Mar 16, 2021 5:05 am Simeon McGovern Affordable Custom Homes, We design and build to your budget Ashington Homes www.ashingtonhomes.com.au Re: KDR - Clarendon Stamford 38 4Mar 16, 2021 8:25 pm Simeon McGovern Affordable Custom Homes, We design and build to your budget Ashington Homes www.ashingtonhomes.com.au Re: KDR - Clarendon Stamford 38 (NSW) 6Mar 31, 2021 9:02 am Simeon McGovern Affordable Custom Homes, We design and build to your budget Ashington Homes www.ashingtonhomes.com.au Re: KDR - Clarendon Stamford 38 (NSW) 10Apr 07, 2021 5:10 pm melody43 SejaeD melody43 Hi Simeon, Please read our updated post for my answer to your question. By the way, your questions are as our concerns, thanks for asking. Regards, Thanh Hi Thanh thanks for your response. Great Vietnamese name by the way my question was a bit more specific than your post mentioned. I was curious as to what the do once you have paid them the balance of the $5,000 non refundable fee. Is that the stage that they now customise your preferred plan to your site and I assume at the end of that they present you with a tender? if you accept the tender then you sign a contract and then pay a 5% deposit? the reason I am asking was that I had a potential client recently that was asking and they were under the impression that the $1450 fee would get them their final tender. We charge $2500 plus GST to get to the tender and they were saying that we were too expensive. S So just trying to compare. many thanks for you help PS just got invited to an event to help mentor a bunch of up and coming Vietnamese executives which is pretty exciting, being able to give back to such a great hardworking community who have done so much for our country. cheers Simeon Hi Simeon, going into the tender appointment, we've already know our plan/siting (this was done with the salesperson very early on, with changes and lots of details included). Basically, for our $1,450 we've already got lots of details (except additional site costs and other council requirements, which were presented at tender appointment, and this was not very different to the amount estimated by the salesperson) and paying the next $3,550 was more to move to the next stage. Thanks for clarifying Simeon McGovern Affordable Custom Homes, We design and build to your budget Ashington Homes www.ashingtonhomes.com.au Re: KDR - Clarendon Stamford 38 (NSW) 12Jun 19, 2021 9:13 am hi Melody43, thank you for your sharing your experience. we also look to build the Stamford in Sydney. we went to Warnervale display centre which just opened last month. in my opinion, Stamford is a more "open plan" design than Madison and Boston. the staircase and void in the centre of the house connecting all living areas and upstairs areas. allowing a 7metres ceiling height (from ground floor to first ceiling ) to be on displayed. wondering if you can share your thoughts on: - the reason you have chosen Stamford 38 instead of 36? it appears small variance in 1 living area only -what floor options did you choose? any changes? thank you Re: KDR - Clarendon Stamford 38 (NSW) 13Jun 19, 2021 9:40 pm anthony C hi Melody43, thank you for your sharing your experience. we also look to build the Stamford in Sydney. we went to Warnervale display centre which just opened last month. in my opinion, Stamford is a more "open plan" design than Madison and Boston. the staircase and void in the centre of the house connecting all living areas and upstairs areas. allowing a 7metres ceiling height (from ground floor to first ceiling ) to be on displayed. wondering if you can share your thoughts on: - the reason you have chosen Stamford 38 instead of 36? it appears small variance in 1 living area only -what floor options did you choose? any changes? thank you Hi Anthony, We chose the 38 over 36 for 2 reasons, 1. it is bigger especially the kitchen, dinning and living (we could not get the 40 because our land is not wide enough). 2. the prices at the time we signed up 36 and 38 was $432K and $446K respectively (hence 2sq is for $14K is a good value for us). As you see it is open especially the stair void (we love it). We only changed ground floor to 2.75m but after visiting the display home we wished we have the first floor as high as the display 2.6m (we can't change it because Clarendon already lodged our DA). We love the stair and we upgraded our stair exactly like the display (by the way we went there on the first weekend opening, we met people who are building Stamford and every one agreed the staircase is the show case for this design). Overall, we don't change the structure of this design at all. We added the grand alfresco. Good luck! Re: KDR - Clarendon Stamford 38 (NSW) 14Jun 24, 2021 7:07 pm Hi Guys, Thanks for opening my eyes to the Stamford. I’d looked at it on plans but had dismissed it because “who needs 6 bedrooms”. However after seeing your post about it in reference to how similar it was to the Boston (which is what we decided on), I had to have another look. I raced down in my lunch break to go through the house and was amazed at how great it was. I’m definitely keen to hear how you got on and any “extras” you’d recommend based on your experience Cheers Brad melody43 anthony C hi Melody43, thank you for your sharing your experience. we also look to build the Stamford in Sydney. we went to Warnervale display centre which just opened last month. in my opinion, Stamford is a more "open plan" design than Madison and Boston. the staircase and void in the centre of the house connecting all living areas and upstairs areas. allowing a 7metres ceiling height (from ground floor to first ceiling ) to be on displayed. wondering if you can share your thoughts on: - the reason you have chosen Stamford 38 instead of 36? it appears small variance in 1 living area only -what floor options did you choose? any changes? thank you Hi Anthony, We chose the 38 over 36 for 2 reasons, 1. it is bigger especially the kitchen, dinning and living (we could not get the 40 because our land is not wide enough). 2. the prices at the time we signed up 36 and 38 was $432K and $446K respectively (hence 2sq is for $14K is a good value for us). As you see it is open especially the stair void (we love it). We only changed ground floor to 2.75m but after visiting the display home we wished we have the first floor as high as the display 2.6m (we can't change it because Clarendon already lodged our DA). We love the stair and we upgraded our stair exactly like the display (by the way we went there on the first weekend opening, we met people who are building Stamford and every one agreed the staircase is the show case for this design). Overall, we don't change the structure of this design at all. We added the grand alfresco. Good luck! Re: KDR - Clarendon Stamford 38 (NSW) 15Jul 03, 2021 6:37 pm BHicks Hi Guys, Thanks for opening my eyes to the Stamford. I’d looked at it on plans but had dismissed it because “who needs 6 bedrooms”. However after seeing your post about it in reference to how similar it was to the Boston (which is what we decided on), I had to have another look. I raced down in my lunch break to go through the house and was amazed at how great it was. I’m definitely keen to hear how you got on and any “extras” you’d recommend based on your experience Cheers Brad melody43 anthony C hi Melody43, thank you for your sharing your experience. we also look to build the Stamford in Sydney. we went to Warnervale display centre which just opened last month. in my opinion, Stamford is a more "open plan" design than Madison and Boston. the staircase and void in the centre of the house connecting all living areas and upstairs areas. allowing a 7metres ceiling height (from ground floor to first ceiling ) to be on displayed. wondering if you can share your thoughts on: - the reason you have chosen Stamford 38 instead of 36? it appears small variance in 1 living area only -what floor options did you choose? any changes? thank you Hi Anthony, We chose the 38 over 36 for 2 reasons, 1. it is bigger especially the kitchen, dinning and living (we could not get the 40 because our land is not wide enough). 2. the prices at the time we signed up 36 and 38 was $432K and $446K respectively (hence 2sq is for $14K is a good value for us). As you see it is open especially the stair void (we love it). We only changed ground floor to 2.75m but after visiting the display home we wished we have the first floor as high as the display 2.6m (we can't change it because Clarendon already lodged our DA). We love the stair and we upgraded our stair exactly like the display (by the way we went there on the first weekend opening, we met people who are building Stamford and every one agreed the staircase is the show case for this design). Overall, we don't change the structure of this design at all. We added the grand alfresco. Good luck! hi Brad, recommend that you join the facebook group Building with Clarendon. you will get a lot more info there. i have looked at both Boston and Stamford, imo, it is really depends on your preference in how much open space you want a Stamford -pros family /dining areas connected to large opened stairwell and second living area ( or home threatre). since they are all connected and sharing space between each areas, this gives you the strong feel of spaciousness. when you look from family/ dining area to the stairwell/ void, 6-7metres ceiling height made us feel the house is more spacious than it is. apart from just looking at the 2 dimensions floor plan, we also looked at the "volume" of space which are related ceiling heights , level of openness ( share space between different living areas and how much light can go through the house from external windows) the cons would be privacy/ noise/ no zoning. since all living areas are connected, this also included living on first floor, if kids are playing upstairs , people from downstairs would be easily disturbed. but this could also a be benefit of parents wants to know where their kids are at all time. this is where Boston would be better if you need separate zones for kids and more privacy, Re: KDR - Clarendon Stamford 38 (NSW) 16Jul 03, 2021 6:58 pm Thanks Anthony. Very good points that we had talked about. We do have young kids at the moment so probably not a bad idea to know what’s going on. We’ve put in a provision to have the media room downstairs closed in. Cheers Re: KDR - Clarendon Stamford 38 (NSW) 17Nov 23, 2022 10:18 am Clarendon Homes Stamford design. I like to share to people who are building Stamford home design and our building journey .... https://www.instagram.com/our_clarendon_stamford_journey/ Hi all stamford owners thank for sharing your experience. We had look at warnavale stamford 38 and we really like it. Just need to know how was your experience with… 0 2622 We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 38383 The biggest challenge will be if you take out a loan and then run out of money - you'll have an incomplete security and lenders do not like this so you can get stuck.… 2 19797 |