Austral chiffon urban one range. I love our bricks! We were tossing up between chiffon and pepper when we built. Pepper is very brown but has a grey look when…

Lileegirl, we built in Wyong shire council and we ticked no even though we were doing it afterwards. We have been in a year and still don't have an occupation…

We source them externally and had them fitted after hand over. Just had plumbing done by BW and had the hot/cold points capped off. Although if you want wall hung…

Tile selection. Sorry the pictures I don't think does the colour justice.
Bathroom tiles are very close to actual colour. But living tiles I think they look lighter in person.

Bricks - urban one range - chiffon
Colour bond roof - monumet
Facade - Seville
All standard no extra cost except sparking for roofing.

So 10 months after moving in (times fly) we finally have our ducted air con. It's so lovely!!

Landscaping very expensive!! We got a quote done, $23,000!! And that was just for " the basics".
So we ended up doing did everything our self's and still cost $5000.…

I love these. We moved in late last August and still been trying to find a yellow pendant lights. I love yellow!!

We got our final invoice 4 days before. Had to keep on there backs though. Then keep on the banks back so you can pick up final cheque. You can…

It all adds up for sure! We spent afterwards out of pocket $60,000. Only good thing was it was all cash so saved a bit on GST. We still don't…

If you are borrowing 95%. If your total house comes to $400,000 95% would be $20,000. The bank will take the $5,500 deposit off the $20,000 so leaving you with…

Honestly I really didn't ask I just told them and ask them what they need re - insurances. I never paid them a cent and wouldn't to be on my…

I was aloud to go on during the build to get our decks started. They used every accuse under the sun to try not alpw it but on the end…

That happened to us at a few stages. After we received invoice I would go check all the work was completed. If not I sent them an email to tell…

We had heaps. We just phoned head office and asked if we could keep them and they said yes but they have to be moved to the back of the…

Just notice our sink doing this as well. Is your both sides or just one? We've already summited our list to BW with all our issues, have you just been…

We upgraded to down lights and it was $125 per down light supply and install through BW. To do it separately through the electrician it was $100 per down light.…

Bek, will have this similar issue not a big but carpet looks gappey in certain spots.

Should be done before handover ours were.They might wait till next year saves putting them on now and sitting there for 3 weeks and increase the risk of them getting…

Cleaners at the end....I didn't even know they had been in it was that bad I only knew they had done there clean as my brother in law was here…

I didn't have an excavator but had an another builder on doing our decks. I had to fight hard for that, but I won.

This happened to us all through the build and the stupid lady at the front desk M is so stupid. And our SS which is the same as yours is…

Kay, our build time line - hopefully yours should be similar seeming will are only around the corner from each other
HOUSE TIMELINE
Land…

Totally agree with the laundry shelling it

We just recently turned our new house - very similar sizing. We used buffalo sapphire. Lots of landscapers we spoke to said they think it is just as good as…

We have shale grey. Not sure if it is to dark for what you are looking for but here are some pictures. We love it!!

I assumed ours were both tank water but the other day I notice on one of the taps outside it doesn't have on of those signs tank water only do…

I didn't. But I had my brother in law which is a builder come up the week before walk through and he told me everything that was wrong. So glad…

Definitely agree with you Kay!! Also helps pass the time waiting for stuff to happen. Now it's helping me pass the time why hubby is at work and having no…

wow you're so young...like Kay's both in your 20's..you're both very brave I so couldn't have done this at that age way too many decisions, but think it's fabulous you…