Hello everyone there comes the time when you gotta start your own thread rather than hijacking everyone elses thread This thread will be detailed from start to finish of my build extras, qoutes, etc, It will give a realistic insight of my building experience.
Always being a North of the river close to the beach boy, growing up, I should of been more inclined to building in Butler or even Alkimos like many of our friends have done. Sometimes you just gotta break the trend and pick an area that you think will grow in value the most and also a place a bit more central to CBD, aswell as best value for money land. We choose Whiteman Edge because it has so much future potential and a less than 2 minute drive to the duckstein brewery, whiteman park, and other great restaurants and cafes. It's a great place for a young family, My wife and I our both 27 with a 18 month lil girl. This will be our first time building and second morgage. We looked at St. Lenards, Caversham, Avonlee, Aveley, worked out all the pros and cons in depth and Whiteman Edge came out on top.
We're very realistic at where we want to be and want to afford to live within our means and work towards that dream home by the time we're 35-40. That's why we have selected Commodore Homes. We're currently living in a small 3-1 and with the baby we have simply outgrown and forced to upgrade. Commodore Homes I don't think have the greatest reputation on productreview website, when you think about it only like 8 or so reviews on the website, and people normally only feel the need to complain if they're having problems, while we have had a few dramas and small problems so far. I am hoping that this thread will be a overall a good experience.
We decided to build the Challenger through Commodore Homes on our 450m block. We have made a few modifications to the original designs.
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So the changes we made are increased length of back of house by 1200mm so bedroom3/4 activity and alfresco are all longer. I originally wanted the alfresco longer by about 3 metres, however looking at the roof design that looked like an expensive ordeal so I decided just to extend the whole back of the house out. This cost roughly around $4500
We added the feature wall to the activity room that it's cousin's house the bathurst has this cost just over $650
We sunk the floor recessed the ceiling, change the windows to a 8 x 11 awning from 25 x 9 in the Theatre room this all up cost around $2800
We extended the WIR out by 1.2 metres to be in line with the house to give us waldrobe space. This was just under $600
Increase Vanity cupboard by 560mm just over $450
All up around 9k in changes. just as I thought I have been happy with them I am starting to think for bedroom 3 and 4, need double wardrobes might have to email are rep tommorrow to see if we can still add those changes.
Our land has been titled and I think we're just waiting for our drawings of our house to be drawn up fully to be submitted to shire.