Hi there,
I'm trying to find some lighting for a lounge/theare room currently under construction. We've got CFL downlights in the ceiling but I'm looking for some white framed wall recess…

Hi there,
We're in Brisbane and will be looking at putting in a new fence to replace once that would be approx. 30 years old and looking really tired. Our neighbours…

Sorry all I meant to provide an update earlier, we're all go at the moment. Well kinda, build starts in a few weeks.
I'll give more details later tonight. Lessons learned…

UPDATE:
Finance
We've had our finance approved pending a house valuation that took place on Friday. This is really just a formality because even the land value is 150% of the amount…

Well bit of an upate.. we've decided to go down the path of renovating. We're basically getting new 50sqm deck under roofline. New kitchen, dining, stacker doors, new laundry, new…

we have a similar setup. We used 2 x 870 solid cavity sliding for the wall between the kitchen/dining and lounge/media room. With the doors open, there's a nice bit…

Thanks for the info.
There is a bit of worked required by the builder before they can get started on actually building. They're organising the completion of the plans, council…

Thanks for the feedback guys. After doing some number on the cost of a decent new house on another block, its reminded us why we decided to go down the…

Yeah we're not too comfortable about a lot of things now that we think about it. We're even questioning the whole renovation path. A few older homes have come up…

Which bit... 5% ?
You dont think 45% before anything is built, is a bit much ? The standard HIA is 10% at base stage. We would have no base, and…

Hi all, an update on our reno planning. We selected a builder based on price and how we thought they were to deal with during the initial steps.
We've spent the…

Hi there. Asbestos removal costs approx. $40sqm. Good work if you can get it hey

Hi SF. I know what you mean about expensive and hard to start with the extensions. We're in Brissie and we've been working on our plans for the past 6…

We live 7k's from Brisbane CBD and, nice tree lined street, walk to school for the kids, walk to cafe's and restaurants. The house is a 1950's post war on…

Thanks for the replies guys. Rod, I did have grand plans to hide the screen and the builder hs factored in a blukhead but given that it's too hard I…

Thanks for the replies guys. Rod, all I really want is to have both a plasma and projector screen on the same wall. Any other options in your opinion. I…

Hi all,
I'm looking to mount a motorised projector screen (selby 108 inch) within a bulkhead in my soon to be built Lounge/Theatre room. It has 2 main reasons,
1. hide the…

Yep, thats about right. It's crazy i know compared to a new build.
We were quoted aboout $2900 per sqm for a 120sqm reno and 50sqm of that was for…

We allowed 1400mm for our walk in robe ie. 600 wide shelves and 800 to get access. It's not a true walk in robe where you'd get changed in it…

We have this problem too. As mentioned above go for a long shallow window high on the wall if you can, that's what we're doing, but the window faces the…

BTW Here is the current house
http://img41.imageshack.us/i/currentfloorplanfinal.jpg/
And here is the proposed design
http://img72.imageshack.us/i/proposedhouse.jpg/
The current laundry area will be extended outwards and is essentially a…

Thanks for the replies guys, we'll definitely make a thread and track the progress of the renovation from start to finish. I'm more then happy to share the costs and…

Hi there, we're in Brisbane and planning a renovation on our weatherboard home. We're going to use Weatherboards but I've been keeping an eye on a renovation up the road…

Problem is that a house that you're talking about will cost >750k and there's no way in the world we're going to service that kind of loan, even with the…

How much backyard will you have if you extend out the back. We're extending 10m to the back of our house on our 640sqm block. This will give is roughly…

We've had some quotes come through for our renovation. Cant believe the price of reno's compared to the new house prices. We're not silly, we expected a difference but not…

Hi candice. we've just gone through the same problems as you and found that www.floorplanner.com was a great help. Lets you draw up the floorplans, make…

Thanks for the replies everyone, glad to see people that have gone through a similar decision process. We've been looking every house that's come up for sale in our suburb…

Thanks very much for the replies guys. The reason for the houses in our street ranging in price is that 300m up the road has full city views of Brisbane.…

Hi there,
I'm pretty sure this is a common dillema for people on this forum, and I'd appreciate if anyone has any feedback on which way to go.
We have…