Our colour selections went fairly well as we knew exactly what we wanted going into the appointment. We felt a bit panicked at the lack of feedback at times when asking for interior design help and at being rushed through signing off on the documents and costings. We had a few unpleasant surprises like our floor quote randomly going up by $600 and being told that we could not use bricks on the two front sides of our facade. We are still feeling happy with our choices overall though.
A full set of colour selections are in the 'colors' tab at the top of the page.
In addition to colours we had a few upgrades -
General
- Door handles, we upgraded all internal handles to levers
- Front Door - stained and Omni Tri Lock
- Increased all internal door heights to suit high ceiling
- Added Gerflor Senso Pro Lock to entry, kitchen and open plan living.
Kitchen
- 1x set of 3 pot drawers to kitchen
- Double joinery to cupboards for downlights
- Soft close drawers and doors
- Pantry doors - Lin 1 doors
- Pantry door handles
- Stone bench top to 40mm
- Underbench fitted bin
- Water point for fridge
- L shaped island bench to replace standard
Laundry
- Overhead cupboards
- Under bench cupboards
- 20mm stone benchtop
- Undermount sink
- Lin One doors to entry and linen cupboard.
Family Room
- Fire - Rinnai 752 with quartz pebbles
- Picture recess above fireplace
- Large picture window 2100x2100
Bedrooms
- Added extra melamine drawer banks to both WIR in the Master bedroom
- Lin One Door to Master Bedroom
Ensuite
- Upgraded to semi frameless shower
- Added shampoo recess
- Added 600mm channel grate to shower
- Upgraded twin basins to Caroma Basa Basins
- Added Gessi Riflessi mixers to both sinks (huzzah for amazing taps!)
- Added a Nikles Pure Twin Raindrop Showerhead
- Upgraded to a double towel rail with square style
- Upgraded to square toilet roll holder
- Added drawer bank to vanity
- Pop up chrome plugs
Bathroom
- Upgraded to semi frameless shower
- Upgraded to double towel rail
- Pop up chrome plugs
- Added extra basin and mirror to separate toilet
We also have increased ceiling heights, added a grand alfresco with concrete and have the Smeg appliance package which was a bonus. Yup we went a little crazy with selections! We will do our feature walls, carpet, blinds, flyscreens, driveway and decking after handover to save some money.
The other big thing for today was the revealing of our preliminary plans. We met our CLO who was great. Nothing was too hard and she did a great job of explaining everything. We discovered that our soil classification has changed, adding an extra $4k to our costs which was a bit deflating. The other bothersome feature is the location of our water tank which is randomly sitting 2m away from the house! Apparently our sales consultant miscalculated the block dimensions before we purchased our land and now the tank won't fit because the side clearances are so tight. It isn't the end of the world but the tank is sitting right where we wanted to put a pool :( Not sure there's much we can do about that though!
We are crossing our fingers we will get through council with the current plans but our local council has a strange preference for walls that are not straight! Apparently they like any wall over 15m to have a jut out and ours are dead straight. We managed to pop out to the eaves on the media room but are too limited on space to do the same on the other side of the house. Fingers crossed they aren't to fussy on that requirement!
Now we wait for the final contract! Bring it on :D
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