we have built the montville 462. We basically left it exactly as per the layout except we had to move our garage back to comply to covenants and removed the…

Hi all havent looked at this for a while. House is all complete. Very happy with how it all turned out. If I could change anything I would either make…

We looked up project build vs custom build. We are building project. While there were additional charges for downlights slightly above cost price this also includes the electrician to install…

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We are tossing up between exposed aggregate, stained concrete or plain concrete driveway with covercrete.
We have had a quote of $89.50 a metre for agg, and are waiting on plain…

We are having a slab laid for a shed. They are doing a little bit extra concrete for a path next to the shed (just along the side of the…

congratulations on your new purchase! We are also building having owned homes before but never built. Our loan is split in two (as said previously this is pretty standard). The…

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As said above different builders have different levels of inclusions and within the same builder they have different inclusions based on the range of home you are selecting. We are…

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Our block is part flat (where our house is situated) then slopes away to the side down a hill. Our water tank etc is in the ground on the…

I am not sure how each franchise charges but we have put in a lot of feature walls and have only been charged for a 'change of paint colour' for…

Im not sure how well it will do but cousin it is a good one for cascading.. its a australian native... (casuarina glauca (cousin it)

My parents have this in their yard. I used to think it was a type of yukka but its not.
I think its either some sort of cordyline or a…

So we have made some modifications regarding internal colour scheme. We had original planned to have the internal walls painted white exchange half with skirting etc painted plan white with…

Some of the homestead houses are made for wide street frontages. These are generally for acreage blocks but they do make smaller ones. These are all single storey however.…

As far as I am aware standard brushed concrete is the cheapest and can be stencilled on later, tinted (but this fades with UV), painted or tiled on or you…

Did you sign the plans? We changed our facade from stacker stone to linear board so we knew exactly what we were getting. The elevations on the plans had this…

I got another quote which was significantly less from another company. I spoke to the one we had signed with and they matched it giving us about 5 grand off!!…

o i cant see the pics! im sure it looks great tho

We have similar colour floor tiles (I think). We are going with white exchange half and having white white skirting architrave etc so it makes a contrast. One tip I…

We have Hebel in our current home and are getting it in our new home. Pros of Hebel I find is good insulation.. the walls are never got and windows…

So after discussing with my husband that we were absolutely not going to sign any contracts regarding crimsafe we had a sales person over on Friday and signed a contract…

Great looking yard! Look forward to seeing more progress and finished product.
In regard to the design did you do this yourselves or get a landscape architect to design for you?…

I really like those tiles!
We are building with GJ gardner but here they go with Groove tiles. I think most tile companies can get the same tiles though. I…

We are also getting these for exterior. They are also quite cheap in the wood-look range and they have a lot more options in terms of colour.
They are called timberland…

We havent started building yet but considered getting these. My husband was keen on getting the wood look whereas I wanted concrete. The price also was quite expensive. We ended…

cabinet colour above (just linea licorice and the stone bench top there is no polar white in this room)
Main bathroom colour selection
Feature wall
Main walls
Floor tile

This is the only picture I could post of the facade... we have changed it a bit... the main entrance where there is stacker stone will be merbau timber posts…

external floor tiles

We finally have building approval! Now just to wait for slab..apparently this will start within 10 working days
Below are some pictures of the colour selection…

Thanks so much. We are building Gold Coast North. Hopefully wont be too much longer and build will start

Kitchen layout
Pantry layout