When we were at the house today, to meet a landscaper for a quote, the tiler came to do some more of the tiling in the ensuite, so we managed…

Hey Jared,
Agree with wrexter, the changes you made to the inital plans are great.
We're nearly at the end of our build, they think about another 4 weeks and then the…

Hi Jared,
CA3105 is correct, and had we have known that beforehand, we would've kept the bench to 3.6m and not gone to 4.0m, to avoid the join.
New Gen have…

Hey Wrexter,
Thanks, the kitchen & living/dining is where we'll spend most of the time entertaining etc., so the bigger the better. We have managed to sort out about the…

Some more photo's.......
We had the cabinets throughout the house raised to 940mm so that we didn't have to bend down as much to reach the sinks. So far so…

Yes, a very touch subject indeed....
We are currently building a new home (in WA) and we decided that with a new house, we wanted new fencing. We approached the…

Thanks tinkster,
We've had to change the benchtop though, rather a bad join in it, so we've been held up a bit on the final run home because of it.

Hi Wrexter,
Yes, I forgot to mention the stacker doors. They were quite expensive, but we thought it was worth it. Our friends put them in their place when…

Finally.....here are the plans. The original design and the one after we made some changes.
Before
After
The changes that we made were:
1. Added a robe to the master bedroom & cut…

The Colorado is a great design. Huge house.

We were looking for a few months at various designs, we wanted a study and a games room (music/gaming room), but the few…

Hi Wrexter,
I was reading your post regarding main bedroom window's. Our council then stipulated we had to have the awning windows, as the width was not sufficient to have…

Some more snaps....
Roof colour is Bushland
Roof on
Veiw of roof from backyard looking to alfresco
Veiw from rear - games room and bedroom 4
Internal rendering to kitchen, with wiring installed in roof.
Rendering…

Hey Wrexter,
We asked about the freestyle when we went to the showroom on Saturday, and we were told that they could only do lengths up to 3 metres without a…

Hi GroovyOne,
We've decided to change the light coloured laminex benchtop for a darker mottled laminex one, but have insisted that the join be at the sink end. They guy…

Some more photo's.....
Standing in the garage looking to the Master Bedroom
Entry from the Alfresco to the Living/Dining
Theatre and Living/Dining
Games Room & Bedroom 4
Roof Timbers on
Stay tuned for more....
Looking into the…

Thanks Tinkster....believe it or not, one of the first plans we were going to go with was the Switch Three 10. They have some great display homes.
Thanks Miss...I'll get…

Good Work Wrexter.....
You'll be amazed at how quickly it will go from this point. We are at lock up now with our Colorado, and they have just finished the…

Hi Fekish,
When we told our builder we were looking to put a pool in, he told us that if we had a pool put in after the house was built…

This is the one thing that has caused us so much grief. We have just had our benches put in (we had Laminex), and only now have found out…

Hi All,
I've been a bit slack updating this post, sorry about that, a few things going on (job change), not to mention a really quick building process for the house.
To…

Hi Kexkez, we are building in Willagee. Will be more than happy to get some pics up soon, tried uploading plans, but it doesn't like pdf files, so will…

We are first time builders in the middle of constructing a new home after demolishing (actually, it was taken away on the back of a truck to the country!) on…