woodsey posted:Building in Bluestone Green
Firstly congratulation on your exciting new venture! I love the Milan that was our second choice, we ended up building the s*monds Mahogany! 
l…
woodsey posted:My boring backyard! What can i do to make it more inviting??
Im not too good at plants and the likes, but the creature thing ive always liked in the display homes is a water feature area, they have those really big…
woodsey posted:How often do u talk to your SS (site supervisor) & for what?
We would vary between our CSO and our SS, some weeks it would be once a week for either of those, other weeks we wouldnt need to speak to them…
woodsey posted:Expected cost for curtains???
l think it depends what you get, my mum got all curtains through out made from scratch, with a few venetians paid $5000. We opted for aluminiam and wooden venetians…
woodsey posted:Pre handover meeting- HELP!
We didn't use an independent inspector i know a lot of ppl here have from what l've read it works well as they pick up things ppl never would have…
woodsey posted:Shortening venetians
We didn't need to adjust our wooden venetians but did for our aluminium using a special cutter you can get from spotlight, and a hacksaw for the top end. Worked…
woodsey posted:Yes another Decking question
l like that idea might have to look into getting it ourselves 
We got 10 pack from Bunnings i think for about that price happy with…
woodsey posted:Yes another Decking question
i like ur decking Adrian, what is the silver bits?
Thought i should post some photos of our decking, it ended up costing us $3700, going to put lights in it,…
woodsey posted:Temporary Curtains? is there such thing?
We used these and would def recommend them, so cheap to do the whole house and they lasted quite well till we could afford real curtains.
I dont know if its…
woodsey posted:Loan size - what would you do?
definately option 1! Why build such a big house just for show if it means that well u cant live life! we faced this situation and we chose the smaller…
woodsey posted:Our $imonds Mahogany 2700
Sorry about the late reply havent been on here for long enough in ages to really read things!
So its been a few months how are things going? have you started…
woodsey posted:fencing cost
October isn't far off how exciting, in for spring and you can then relax and be settled in before christmas! last year for us christmas was such a rush with…
woodsey posted:fencing cost
It has been awhile, work got in the way 
but im back now! house is great its been 9months already still plenty to do…
woodsey posted:Received letter from council - clean up your block
We received a similar letter from our council, didn't say bushfires, did say Fires and talked about having to be clear of weeds and rubbish and other hazard items at…
woodsey posted:fencing cost
We got color bond for $65 per metre, that was western suburbs Melbourne. When we rang around we got quoted anything from $65 to $75.
woodsey posted:Building our first home!
Welcome
The waiting is fun hey 
Let us know how you go, then post some links up to your…
woodsey posted:How much is your House & Land?
Land $122,500 (575sqm- Manor lakes Wyndham Vale), house $196,000 (27sq s*monds home- everything (inside) inc upgrades and driveway)
woodsey posted:New home buyers should allow for higher rates
I thought others might find this interesting!
New home buyers should allow for higher rates – Stevens
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 61,00.html
ANYONE taking on a new mortgage should allow for…
woodsey posted:Help with your opinions on dramas with our bricks
A co-worker at work build with a smaller builder eastern suburbs of melbourne, he had this problem with the brick work, he pushed it hard with the help of an…
woodsey posted:Simonds Homes problems
With us we were allocated ours, we were about to complain when the second one was appointed so we were very lucky! But def do complain if you have a…
woodsey posted:build new home in Alamanda with Simonds
We had the color appointment within four months, the contract we signed two weeks before, but that was at request of our bank, otherwise would have been color appointment first…
woodsey posted:I am a Highlander! Simonds - Atherton
l was going to ask the same question about the tiles, cause we built with s*monds too looked VERY much like ours, but it could just be the lighting, ours…
woodsey posted:Austral homestead Tan render colours?
We have the Tan bricks our render is called Nutbush! its like a medium brown color! It seems to match (to us anyway ).
woodsey posted:Wood Deck vs Paving
If you need a number of someone who can do it and you live in West Melbourne let me know we are very happy with ours! If i remember when…
woodsey posted:Anyone did this?
I don't see why not, we didn't upgrade our bricks but i can tell you that our builder used a different, what looked to be cheaper brick for our rendering…
woodsey posted:Wood Deck vs Paving
We just got a hardwood decking with a measurement of 3*5.5m- its a step down decking (cause its for the front, so has three steps) and it costed us $3700!…
woodsey posted:What does no interest,no repayment mean?
Basically there are two types of 'interest' free terms, one where you have no interest, no repayments and one where 'no interest ever', but has monthly repayments.
Now l've used both,…
woodsey posted:Tiles, Dark VS Light
We went a medium brown (although in with the blinds shut looks more dark brown). We had oridinary thought white but were talked out of it cause were told darker…
woodsey posted:Commonwealth bank to increase their variable home loan rate
From news.com.au (not good!) who next no doubt others will follow! 
http://www.news.com.au/business/money/s ... 10,00.html
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