Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Mar 14, 2013 7:56 pm Hi – I only discovered this forum while quite far along into our build. Anyway I though I would finally start my thread now (even though we are already at lock up). It’s been a exciting journey and I would love to share my experience as I've really enjoyed reading people's threads on this forum. My husband and I purchased a block of land at Honeywood estate in Wandi, WA back in July last year. The block is 465 sqm and a bit of a funny shape. The Red Ink, Biscay display home suited our block perfectly. We just flipped the design over and made a few small changes. One big change we made is we took off the 4th bedroom as we really want a backyard, and big, spacious living areas inside…large kitchen and bedrooms, huge WIR etc (we’ve been living in a small flat for a long time, so have been deprived of all these things). It’s been very convenient having the display in the same estate as our block and the salesperson, Eleanor has just been lovely and so helpful the whole way through the process. We had pre-start in early September (a few weeks before getting married) and the slab went down at the end of October which was a nice surprise for when we got back from our Honeymoon. that all seems so long ago now as we will be ready for PCI soon. Some of our tile selections Bathroom feature tile Here is the finished product (can't seem to get it the right way up) Ensuite My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=63545 Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 2Mar 14, 2013 10:22 pm Hello I'm happy for you that you are at lock up. We are building with redink too. The chateau although it doesn't look much like it due to all our modifications. So how long did it take you to go from prestart to slab exactly? How many times did you go back and forward with your plans? We are at final plan stage (had prestart on 18th Feb) but we had to return them to have a few things fixed. It is torture waiting day after day for them to email us to tell us the final amended plans are ready. Could you give me a timeline of your journey from prelim agreement to where you are now if it is not too much trouble? Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 3Mar 14, 2013 10:35 pm Love the silver bathroom tiles!! Are your sinks the caroma orbis? If they are it makes me very happy! We picked them based on the picture on the website Our Redink Build at Honeywood...Countdown to Keys! 4Mar 14, 2013 10:39 pm Hi Rex, We only changed a couple things on the initial plans, it's our first time building, we don't have kids and are not planning a big family...so all I changed was to get rid of a study nook to make the wir bigger. We had a bit of frustration ensuring a couple of highlight windows were centred...it did annoy me that we had to point out things like that. So prestart was early sept Slab down was late oct Brickwork was finished just before Xmas...then it felt like everything just stalled and it was going so slow. But by late January though, it was go go go, In the last two months the house is nearly finished, lock up was a few weeks ago. ss thinks pci may be next week... So it's been just over 5 months since slab down. Thankfully we decided to put our flat we are currently living in on the market on the weekend and sold it straight away...so it's timed out really well. My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=63545 Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 5Mar 14, 2013 10:41 pm Thanks fmac. Yes sinks are caroma orbis. I love them. They look huge as well in real life, much bigger than I had remembered. My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=63545 Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 6Mar 14, 2013 10:46 pm So happy with that decision now! We wanted above counter but not the square ones our builder had as a standard upgrade. Excited to hear they are pretty big. I was concerned they might end up a little small. Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 7Mar 14, 2013 11:15 pm Wow I'm hoping when we put our house on the market we will sell it straight away as well. I see that the property market is quite hot at the moment. Its good to hear that the build itself was so quick. Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 8Mar 14, 2013 11:16 pm You'll love the basins fmac. My husband wanted square ones, but he really liked these when he saw them. Some more pics Bathroom ...cabinets are silver strata, but you can't really see the colour in the pic Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Kitchen...formica white gloss and essa stone dusk. We are going to put in a red splashback after handover and do the overhead cabinets as well Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Front render and brick paving was just started this week. I'm assuming they have just done a base coat for the render as the colour is not what I was expecting..the band should be a very dark, almost black colour. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=63545 Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 9Mar 14, 2013 11:18 pm We were shocked to sell so quickly, first home open and 3 offers over the asking price! Glad I won't have to super clean my house every Saturday in preparation for home opens. My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=63545 Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 10Mar 14, 2013 11:22 pm Looks great!! What colour is your render? Kitchen looks nice and big!! Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 11Mar 14, 2013 11:28 pm Thanks, the feature band is solver black pearl and the door should be painted that colour too, as well as the top of the post near the door (the post isn't finished yet, it's missing a timber casing) and the rest of the render is grey smoke which is similar to shale grey (same as our garage door). Roof is colorbond ironstone, seems to look a different colour all the time, it's way more blue grey than we were expecting. Yes, kitchen is huge. Our kitchen in our flat is sooo tiny, you can only have one person in it at a time! My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=63545 Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 12Mar 14, 2013 11:39 pm Rex, it was torture during the Xmas break waiting for them to get back to work...then suddenly every weekend when we'd go down to the house there was something new, we would be amazed at what they would get done in a week....once you're at look up it feels a little slow again as they do all the boring stuff (electrical, a/c, insulation etc). We also lost our SS and CLO in the same week. Our new SS seems much better than the last one though, a really nice guy and replies to my emails straight away (not that the other one was really bad, but we barely ever heard from him). Our previous CLO was also really efficient, haven't had to peak with her replacement yet. My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=63545 Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 14Mar 15, 2013 2:43 pm Looks great. Nice colour schemes. Our build thread with Redink 11/1 - Prestart 5/4 - Slab 29/4 - Brickwork 27/5 - Roof Cover 20/6 - Lock Up 20/8 - PCI 10/9 - Handover Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 15Mar 15, 2013 4:09 pm thanks Munchy - we love our ensuite bathroom colours probably the most. I'm hoping that the front render looks ok..I'm sure what is there at the moment is just a base coat as it looks really blue in real life, so does the door (it's mean to be black pearl). We'll pop down on the weekend and check it out. I see you're building with Redink too...good luck with everything. My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=63545 Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 16Mar 15, 2013 4:55 pm colors are great and the kitchen is fantastic love the colors at front of house too Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 17Mar 15, 2013 6:03 pm Thank you. this is the kitchen we have based ours on -ours is slightly shorter as the oven is under the hotplate, not wall mounted and we have the standard rangehood too. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We are having translucent glass pantry doors (like this - but a double door) which was suggested by fellow homeoner/redinker - xxxKatxx since we discovered that our pantry doors couldn't be laminted and I didn't want them like our internal doors Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We are putting in the overhead cabinets ourself to save a bit of money and looking to add a Red splashback My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=63545 Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 18Mar 15, 2013 6:04 pm love the idea of the pantry door now you have me thinking wonder if i could get the same for my pantry as a sliding door Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 19Mar 15, 2013 6:14 pm They're Corninthian Infinity... not sure who you are building with, but you can supply your own and get the builder to install them. We ended up getting them from Redink anyway as they turned out to be much cheaper than we could find (which was strange and I'm wondering if it was a quoting error) My Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=63545 Re: Our Redink Build at Honeywood...nearly there! 20Mar 15, 2013 6:39 pm thanks for that i am going to try So I'm just reading up on this ecosystem of lights. I'm planning on putting deck lights along the outside edge of a large deck. Will need about 3 packs (18 lights) plus… 0 23413 Which ceiling hook to use to hang Xmas lights under Eaves in 1st floor in 2 storey façade (no… 0 1495 Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. I guess when you talk to a builder who butters up everything to look very polished, you get to start believing… 7 19951 |