Yesterday we had a call from National Tiles to book in our tile selection appointment & today was a call from Hopeton Interiors to book our colour & electrical selections so now our appointment schudule is as follows:
TENDER
Tuesday 2nd October 2012
1:00pm
Porter Davis Head Office - 41-47 Thomsons Road, Keilor Park
COLOUR & ELECTRICAL SELECTIONS
Wednesday 17th October 2012
9:00am
Hopeton Interiors - Level 1, 32 Fennell Street, Port Melbourne
TILE SELECTION
Wednesday 17th October 2012
2:00pm
National Tiles - 525 Graham Street, Port Melbourne
CONTRACT SIGNING
Wednesday 24th October 2012
1:00pm
Porter Davis Head Office - 41-7 Thomson Road, Keilor Park
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Hopeton Interiors
Last weekend we visited Hopeton Interiors in Port Melbourne to try and get some idea of the colours we would like.
We found this trip pretty successful coming away with almost everything chosen, even if it did take all day.
When we arrived we were given a tour of the show room and shown what was standard and what the upgrade options were and then we were left to have a look around ourselves and choose some combinations that we liked.
The staff there were very friendly & very helpful and we were given a client wish list to fill out which out lined everything that needed to be decided on.
We found the exterior of the house fairly easy as we had done alot of resaerch on the internet of colour combinations and were lucky enoughto come across some pictures of a house that had the bricks we liked and also a list of the gutter, down pipe colours that had been used. We also visted a Boral display centre where they gave us a list of houses that had used the colour brick we liked so we had spent hours driving around and looking at the bricks as well as the colour combinations they had used wih it.
Next was the front door, we had an upgrade front door as part of our package so we had more options to choose from and luckily we both choose the same door as our favourite!
Another great thing about Hopeton was they had lists of all the colours that had been used in display homes so if there was a kitchen or a bathroom or another room that you like in a display home the staff could tell you exactly what colours had been used.
We had found a kitchen that we liked in a display home so found out what had been used, unfortunately the Caesar stone bench tops that had been used were an upgrade but we were able to find something similar in our category & still use the same laminex colour for the cabinets
We took a break & had some lunch and decided to visit National Tiles which is just around the corner from Hopeton. We choose a few tiles we liked and took some samples back to Hopeton to try and work out our wet area colours.
We found this a bit more difficult as we didn't really have a display or pictures to base it on but again the staff were helpful and talked us through or decisions and we are now feeling a lot more confident with what we have chosen.
One thing that was frustrating at Hopeton was they didn't have access to the prices of any upgrades, so if you decide to upgrade you really have no idea how much it is going to cost at this stage of the process.
Under Hopeton is the Birk Blinds showroom so we had a look in there and got a quote for our window furnishing we had previously obtained quite a few quotes and Birk was comparable in price so I think we will get our blinds from there as this means they can be included in the building contract and we wont have to worry about them later.
We found this trip pretty successful coming away with almost everything chosen, even if it did take all day.
When we arrived we were given a tour of the show room and shown what was standard and what the upgrade options were and then we were left to have a look around ourselves and choose some combinations that we liked.
The staff there were very friendly & very helpful and we were given a client wish list to fill out which out lined everything that needed to be decided on.
We found the exterior of the house fairly easy as we had done alot of resaerch on the internet of colour combinations and were lucky enoughto come across some pictures of a house that had the bricks we liked and also a list of the gutter, down pipe colours that had been used. We also visted a Boral display centre where they gave us a list of houses that had used the colour brick we liked so we had spent hours driving around and looking at the bricks as well as the colour combinations they had used wih it.
Next was the front door, we had an upgrade front door as part of our package so we had more options to choose from and luckily we both choose the same door as our favourite!
Another great thing about Hopeton was they had lists of all the colours that had been used in display homes so if there was a kitchen or a bathroom or another room that you like in a display home the staff could tell you exactly what colours had been used.
We had found a kitchen that we liked in a display home so found out what had been used, unfortunately the Caesar stone bench tops that had been used were an upgrade but we were able to find something similar in our category & still use the same laminex colour for the cabinets
We took a break & had some lunch and decided to visit National Tiles which is just around the corner from Hopeton. We choose a few tiles we liked and took some samples back to Hopeton to try and work out our wet area colours.
We found this a bit more difficult as we didn't really have a display or pictures to base it on but again the staff were helpful and talked us through or decisions and we are now feeling a lot more confident with what we have chosen.
One thing that was frustrating at Hopeton was they didn't have access to the prices of any upgrades, so if you decide to upgrade you really have no idea how much it is going to cost at this stage of the process.
Under Hopeton is the Birk Blinds showroom so we had a look in there and got a quote for our window furnishing we had previously obtained quite a few quotes and Birk was comparable in price so I think we will get our blinds from there as this means they can be included in the building contract and we wont have to worry about them later.
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Appointments
Yesterday we received a phone call from our Building Coordinator to introduce herself and to book in our appointments
Tender appointment - Tuesday 2nd October 2012 at 1:00pm
Contract Signing - Wednesday 24th October 2012 at 1:00pm
She told us our colour, electrical & tile appointments will be scheduled between tender & Contract signing.
This weekend we are going to go to Hopeton Interiors to have a look around their show room and hopefully get some colour ideas.
Tender appointment - Tuesday 2nd October 2012 at 1:00pm
Contract Signing - Wednesday 24th October 2012 at 1:00pm
She told us our colour, electrical & tile appointments will be scheduled between tender & Contract signing.
This weekend we are going to go to Hopeton Interiors to have a look around their show room and hopefully get some colour ideas.
Inclusions
Standed Inclusion including the upgrades we gt for free as part of our package
FOUNDATIONS
FALL OF LAND
SERVICES
FRAMING
BRICK
ROOF
DOORS
WINDOWS
FLOOR COVERINGS
TILES
PAINT
KITCHEN
EUSUITE / BATHROOM
LAUNDRY
TAPS
TOILET
CEILING
HEATING
SOLAR HOT WATER
PLUMBING
INSULATION
GARAGE
EXTRA
FOUNDATIONS
- Engineer designed reinforced concrete slab to suit "M" class soil
- Concrete pump
FALL OF LAND
- 300mm of fall of land
SERVICES
- Unerground power
- Water connection
- Gas connection
- Sewer & stormwater Connection
- Termite protection
FRAMING
- Pine wall & roof framing
BRICK
- Clay Brick selection from builders standard range (Boral)
- Brickwork over windows
ROOF
- Cement tile selection from builders standard range (Boral)
DOORS
- Front - Upgrade designer front door from Corinthian
- Laundry - Full glazed timber
- Internal - Flush Pannel 2040 mm high
- Lockwood Symmetry Mannor Series enterance sets
WINDOWS
- Front elevation - aluminum improved
- Remaining elevation - aluminum improved
- Aluminum framed flyscreens with aluminum mesh to all openable windows
- Key locks to all openable windows
FLOOR COVERINGS
- choice of flooring to entry, kitchen, dining & family rooms - Ceramic Tiles or Bolero timber look flooring
- Upgraded impressions range of carpet to entire house excluding the tiled areas
TILES
- Selection from builders standard range
- floor and wall tiles to ensuite, bathroom & launrdy
- Floor tiles to toilet
- Tiled Skirting to wet areas
PAINT
- External (downpipes, woodwork) - Wattyl, Sunfast low sheen
- Internal (woodwork & doors) - Wattyl Eastflow Gloss
- Internal (walls) - 3 coat paint system of Wattyl low sheen washable velvet
KITCHEN
- BENCH - 20mm Caesarstone benchtops to kitchen exculding island bench
- 40mm Caesarstone bentchtops to island bench
- Doors - Laminate selection from builders range
- Interior - melamine shelving
- Pantry - 4 melamine slelves with flush panel door
- Oven - 900mmBlanco stainless steeleupright semi comercial dual fuel cooker including plates & installation
- Rangehood - Blanco 900mmglass canopy rangehood
- Sink - 1 & 1/2 bowl stainless steel blanco
- Dishwasher - Blanco Stainless steel
- Tap - Brewers Itallia flexable sinkmixer with vegie sprayer
- Shadow line feature to kitchen benchtops
- Blum soft closers to kitchen upboard & drawers
- Double door overhead cupboards to kitchen with alifrost insers & aluminum trim to either side of canopy rangehood
- Additional oerhead cupboards either side of Alifrost cupboards to run full width
- Painted clear glass splashback
- Delux pot drawers to either side of oven
EUSUITE / BATHROOM
- Semi frameless shower screen door with pivot door & fully tiled shower base
- Vitreous hina hand basins to ensuite & bathroom
- Fully Laminated shadow lined style vanity units with melamine interior & square edged vanity tops
- 20mm caeserstone benchtops to bathroom & ensuite
- Acrylic (caroma Maxton) bath
- Polished edged mirrors to full width of vanity
LAUNDRY
- Commercial Stainless Steel Trough Insert
- Laminate Laubdry Cabinet
- Laminate Extended Laundry benchtop
TAPS
- Basin Mixers - Caroma Aqua
- Shower, Bath & Laundry - Raymor Armada chrome
- Washing Machine Stops - Raymor Armada Chrome
TOILET
- China Duel Flush link suites (Raymor Bella)
CEILING
- 2590mm high ceilings
HEATING
- Gas ducted heating to living areas and bedrooms
SOLAR HOT WATER
- Solar Hot Water - Chromagen with single roof panel and ground mounted 200 lt storage unit with natural gas booster
PLUMBING
- Concealed plumbing
INSULATION
- R2.5 insulation batts to ceiling & sisalationto walls
- home to comply with SEAV 6 star energy rating requirements
GARAGE
- Double lock up garage
- Sectional Panelmasta garage door
- Remote Control to garage door with 2 transmitters
- Internal access door from garge
EXTRA
- 75mm cove cornice throughout home
- 67mm decotive skrting & architraves
- Render to from of Facade
The Floor Plan changes
A made a few small changes to the plan, mostly the addition of doors
- Changed the Robe doors to Sliders
- Addition of a hinged door to the theatre room
- Addition of a hinged door to Master Bedroom WIR
- Addition of a hinged room from the kitchen/family room to the hallway
- Addition of a slider dor from master Bedroom to Ensuite
- Additional plaster to close in the study with a bulk head & angled walls
- Additional broom cupboard/Linen in Laundry
- Additional cupboard to rumpus room
- Additional cupboard to rumpus room
- Alfresco to Family & Rumpus Room
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| Standard Plan |
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| Our Plan |
The Drysdale 28
We spend a lot of time looking for the perfect home at a reasonable price
The main things we wanted in the house were looking for were:
- 4 bedrooms
- A theatre/Living room that could be closed off from the rest of the house
- The toilet / Bathroom located close to the living areas i.e not down a long hallway
- The master bedroom to be away from the other 3 bedrooms
- An alfresco area
The things that we wanted but were not essential were
- A study
- A Rumpus room
- A walk in Pantry
- A large laundry
- 2 Walk in robes in the Master Ensuite
We were very happy when we came across the Drysdale 28 as it included everything we were looking for and most of the things that we wanted & we were even happier to find out they they had a very good deal on at the time with allowed us many upgrades.
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| The Drysdale 28 |
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| Seaside Façade |
Although we are making a few small changes which i will detail later
The Beginning
On the 11th July 2011 we signed contracts to purchase our block of land (off the plan) in Bannockburn. Settlement of of block occurred on 1st March 2012.
Since signing the land contracts we have been looking at many different plans from different builders and finally on Saturday 25th August 2012 we made the decision to build
The Drysdale 28 with Porter Davis
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