Great. We are back in council with our plans, just waiting. Builder will be ready to start in April. I'm hoping council will have it approved by then. It feels…

That looks amazing Rj-mcgray. You must be so happy with it. So I'm assuming that means you are all done by (hopefully) the end of next week! Congratulations!

Looks wonderful RJ_McGray. They have progressed so quickly. You must be so excited. Great to read your update!

Looks wonderful! You must be so excited now, seeing it all come together. I forget, are you living there while all this is happening?

Looks great! It must be so exciting for you now that it is actually happening! We are still waiting on our final costings and final plans to go to council.…

Thanks Michelle. I'll have a look at the Jasper too!

Thanks so much Danette! I love the look of the Wallaby. Do you have a build thread here? I'd love to see your house when finished/ painted.

Thanks for the reply Michelle.
I don't have a photo as the house will look very different in 6-9 months (fingers crossed!). I do have a sketch of the plans…

Hi all,
Looking for opinions on external colour for a weatherboard-look Reno.
We are hoping to stick with Colorbond colours as we are currently purchasing a pre-made garage and want…

Colours look great Parrydise. I am a big fan of the greys, especially love the Silkwort. Can't wait to see pictures RJ-McGray.
We are looking at using Colorbond Dune colour for…

PS - I forgot to mention that our existing colorbond fencing is all in the light green colour (not sure of the name), so while I like grey, I definitely…

Good to read about this Maz80. We are considering a similar colour scheme on our reno. Definitely looking at Colorbond Dune colour on weatherboards, white window frames. I'm stuck on…

Good to hear RJ_McGray. That council approval was a long time coming!
We are still waiting on a final estimate from our builder, though he has given an initial estimate…

Thanks RJ-McGray. We are hoping to hear back from the builder with an estimate by the end of this week. After that, the building designer will prepare the plans to…

Yes, we are very happy. Hoping that our builder's quote comes in at budget! He said we should be fine and as mentioned, if it comes to it, we will…

If we are feeling rich (haha), we would like the upstairs linen cupboard to have a laundry chute down to the laundry (not sure on the logistics and if we…

We got our plans back from our building designer/ draftsman last night. I've just dropped a copy off with the builder for an estimate.
To give you an idea of…

Great news Rj-mcgray! Can't wait to see some progress pictures!

Hi again,
Not sure whether we will be able to stay the whole time things are being done at our place. We were hoping to move out initially for a month…

That's a really helpful cost breakdown. We are probably looking at about the same.
Builder estimated $300,000 would cover us for a second floor addition, of approximately 84 sqm with…

No, not yet. Designer is working on them. We are hoping to get them back by Monday week. I will definitely post a picture when I have them.
Must be…

Looks great. It looks like you have had plans in council for awhile! When we did our last application (which we withdrew), building designer told us 5 weeks in council.…

PS - would you mind sharing the floor plan of your current home (lower level)? Will you make many alterations to the existing part of the house?

Thanks so much for posting this! It is great to hear your experiences and I look forward to hearing more.
We are also hoping to add a second level to our…