Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 28Apr 25, 2011 1:15 pm trudy Hey everyone! Ger - so good to see yet another talise how exciting- we r all building at the same time! Gday Trudy, thanks for the welcome, it is really cool that all of us are with the same builder, i think were all first timers too. We're not doing the Talise though Trudy!! , we really liked the Talise, however we preferred to use up more of the width of our block, we initially put the deposit on the Monterey, then changed our minds to an Esprit floorplan ( Cottesloe ) and "Clendonvaled it ) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We always preferred this plan but there was no Display! We went back to it nearly a year later. You start to visualise floorplans after a while..... We have made alot of changes though, the Grand Alfresco being the big ticket item.... Are we all in the South East by the way? G Ger Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 29Apr 25, 2011 4:12 pm Ger1322, I like your plan, there are some similar attributes to the Talise like the open kitchen/dining/living areas. I've just updated our blog with some nearmap satellite images over the past 6 months which we found interesting. Chatz Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 30Apr 25, 2011 6:27 pm Hi Chatz...awesome satelite pics! I loved the "before and after" thingy and your pool looks cool sitting there Trudy, thanks for the quote on dining room extension cost. I am SO tempted by the timber stacking doors but another $700 is going to hurt again. The spa idea is indeed fun but then again, cost and maintenance is quite a dampener on the champagne bottle that beckons to be enjoyed! Decisions, decisions. Good choice of plans, G. I did consider the Cottlesloe but needed some extra rooms and thus ended with the Talise finally. Looks like the four of us are in the south east; that's fantastic! Cheers! Mee2 Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 31Apr 27, 2011 8:57 am Hey, Ger, for some reason i thought you were building the talise???? im silly. have you made changes to the cottlesloe plan? its a great floorplan... very open, i like it and the open living area is very similar to the talise. Talisefan - if you can afford the extra stacker go for it. i guess we decided not to as there are already so many windows in that open plan area and paying so much more for just a little more glass... just couldnt justify it. I am also thinking about all of the stuff we have to pay for after handover... its kinda scaring me a little. Just realised we are also having to do that massive wardrobe fitout post handover too. I've been tooling around with the wardrobe planner on the ikea website... its great! we are building in south morang, apparantly they will be on site in 3 weeks. We went back and forth from m******* to henley and in the end, realised we got so much more for our $$$ with henley. Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 33Apr 27, 2011 10:35 am Yes, how I wished I had the money tree! I will probably not go with the extra stacker doors but opt for tall windows if cost is not too exhorbitant; I just love open spaces. Thanks too for the reality check on the wardrobes fitout in ensuite, that will surely hurt bad on pockets too Will do a copycat on your idea and browse through fitting with Ikea too. Apologies, Trudy, soon you will see a mirror image of your house after mine is ready!!! I have decided to take out the extra store room addition as I want to place a nice antique piece in that corner By the way, have a check with the new H..... prices online. The price for the T..Q2 has been slashed 3ks; hope you can wrangle them to offer the new price to you. I am also going for a hard bargain and trying my luck with them offering the "$40,000 extras" without coughing out the $3990. Apparently, I read that some sales consultants do throw in this bit to seal the deal for them. Worth a try. Cheers Mee2 Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 34Apr 27, 2011 1:14 pm talisefan, explain it to me.... how are you trying to get some money back? i will try and do the same thing the window is a great option instead of the extra stacker door... i didnt think of that! Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 35Apr 27, 2011 2:49 pm Trudy, I saw online a few days ago that the price of the Talise Q2 has now been revised to $204,900 from the original price of $207,900 (here's the 3ks savings!). I haven't signed the building contract with them as yet so I am pretty sure I can enjoy the lower revised price. The next bit is a little trickier though. I was reading thru' some thread posted by people building with H..... and apparently they managed to get the $3990 knocked off (this is the amount we are to pay for the $40,000 upgrades?). I guess this is the sales consultant's carrot offering to seal the deal. I am not sure how much success we will have with the $3990 but the revised price should be the easy part. Definitely worth a go, don't you think? PD, Carlisle and M... are all knocking at my door to build with them; so I do have some bargaining power. Hope you are good at arm wrestling! Cheers M2 Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 36Apr 27, 2011 3:29 pm Ahhhh OK now I know what you are talking about. I think you should go for it! I know I defintiely cant get this out of them because when we signed up (with the higher price), we actually got a few extras included adn these are now not offered with the new lower price. I saw someone from henley about it when the price came down and it worked out that our inclusions actually outweigh the $4K so better not to go down to the new price. Some of these inclusions were the solar panels and zoned heating... i cant remember the others. oh yes... and with the lowered price, they included laminate flooring. but since we are diong bamboo flooring, it wouldnt benefit us. good luck with it though! Trudy Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 38Apr 30, 2011 12:28 pm trudy Hey, Ger, for some reason i thought you were building the talise???? im silly. have you made changes to the cottlesloe plan? its a great floorplan... very open, i like it and the open living area is very similar to the talise. we are building in south morang, apparantly they will be on site in 3 weeks. We went back and forth from m******* to henley and in the end, realised we got so much more for our $$$ with henley. I'll forgive you Trudy... , Thank you, We always loved the Cottesloe plan right from the start but hesitated in deciding as there were no displays, leap of faith and being able to visualise was the decider..l The Talise was another fave.. but a bit too long for our block Made a few changes, - our sales consultant called it Clendonvaled !! Bricks above the windows , high ceilings.. u know.. widened the garage, added an entry from the garage through the Study ( were using this part as a Mud room, you know for the Golf sticks, coats, shoes etc.. ) We also sacrificed space from the study to put in a much bigger Pantry Couple of extra wall to the living room, a doorway from the entrance to Kitchen / family Big ticket item was the Grand alfresco which was a structural change.. Same thoughts as us we laid down a deposit with the Big M, but changed to Henley.. more for the dollar + all the staff we have dealt with have been Great. 3 weeks isn't too far away, very exited for you. G Ger Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 39Apr 30, 2011 12:34 pm TaliseFan Thanks in advance, Trudy! Going to gym to beef up some muscles for arm wrestling session Talk soon! M2 Hi M2 We got offerred $3000 cosham upgrades + $1000 of the bottom line for using Waterstones.. we were tossing between H & M Good luck G Ger Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 40Apr 30, 2011 5:16 pm Hey, yeah we got the same... 3 grand off the extras so that paid for our waterfall edge island bench with 40mm stone we couldn't go through waterstone even though we wanted to. Our financial situation was too hard for them to work with coz I'm self employed. Banks hate ppl who r self employed! Trudy multiple occ properties are always billed by trades at a premium, rarely per sqm for the lot. You either have trades you know whoe will do by sqm or youre going to get… 1 2726 if the original house is in good condition most of what you listed could be added in stages without the need for KDR and costs and disruption of having to live elsewhere… 1 14070 Hi, If you give a set of criteria as to what means 'good' to you, it'll give others prompts to respond. We considered Henley early on but there were two factors that… 1 12588 |