About time buddy! Enjoy your new home, i'm sure you'll love it once you're all settled in.

deck looks beautiful! If you want the stain perfect, you have to do it yourself. Use sikkens, takes 3 coats, 24 hours between each application. Its pricey, but best on…

Yeah we saved a lot of money doing things post handover and a lot of DIY stuff too. I'm pretty hands on, so it did save us a bundle of…

wow world of difference it makes to the facade with the painted rendered piers etc. House looking fantastic.

After we actually finished the house. Not including landscaping or driveway, it was close to $650k we spent, we did a lot of things post handover. Then $100k in funishings…

Good luck on build journey, looking forward to seeing more pics!! Can we start with your house plans?

I probably used the word happy incorrectly. I should have said by the time the house was "complete". IE all joinery, mirrors, flooring, curtains, security screens, feature walls etc.

Yup you're pretty much spot on. Our base price was $380k 3 years ago, and by the time we were happy with everything the bill was in the $650k range.…

Where abouts in QLD are you? I can share the mob that did most of our joinery post hand over. Wish we did even more post, would have saved us…

hehe I love this. We're the same, I think its much more important to keep your sanity.

Love this! Looks awesome!!

Looking good Q! We have such similar colour schemes!

Looks like power junctions for post handover lights.

Nice! Love the Zanzibar design! Looking forward to seeing your progress.

hehe yup. It's definitely coming, just a matter of being patient now.
You'll all love your new home!!! I know I do =D

Yeah we got many gifts, haven't even really had time to go through them yet.
PS. Sorry for spamming your thread Q! You're so close now, almost there =)

Good as gold! Finally had an official house warming past weekend. Nice to finally have everyone over to visit =)

Best of luck guys!!!

After building with Metricon, I bet you're like us and see how much more is included standard with Plantation. Their standard inclusions are amazing!!!! Metricon have the best display houses…

You'll love the triple garage then! It's probably the most used area in our house atm.
This next one is an investment home, so not quite ready to do another move…

Love the triple garage!! Definitely super handy the extra space.
I've just also put down a deposit with Plantation to build the Brighton 31.
My sales consultant thinks we'll break dirt…

You can do it all post handover. The security screen installer will remove the window restrictions while his installing. That's what happened at our house, and we didn't even ask…

Awning windows are also restricted when on 2nd floor with no security screens...

Old style
More modern steel mesh

I think you're confusing fly screens with security screens.

Adding security screens will allow the windows to open fully.

Nice!!! Them tiles every will look fantastic! Very classy =)

Congrats!!! Glad to see a smooth handover =)

Damn that sux!! Can't believe this same issue keeps happening for so many customers!! They did the opposite in our house, the cupboards are higher than the picture window....

Looking good, house gonna be amazing!