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Enjoying our New Home.....
Other Cremorne Owners
List of our Upgrades & Options
Garage
- Extend width by 500mm
- 4-Panel door with hi-lite pattern windows. Inc remotes
- Fitted garage door in front foyer. Access to inside of the house
- Added 2 x double fluro lights
- Ducted vacuuming unit---4 points around house.
- 450mm Eaves to entire upper storey
- R3.5 Bradford Insulation bates
- R2.5 Bradford Sound Bates to all exterior walls & numerous interior walls
- Arlington: Rendered
- Installed plaster & stud walls each side with 2 cavity sliding doors. Upgraded doors. Room will be utilised as my study/library
- Void between lounge/froint study. ..Will fit plantation shutters later on
- Additional powerpoints, and noggins for future dryer
- Install a Broom cupboard
- Installed a laminate bench opposite laundry trough/cupboards. Maximise the space, great for folding clothes,etc
- Fitted a stainless steel trough in lieu of standard
- Cupboards
- Pot drawers either side of oven(750mm)
- Push button on corner of island bench. Provides easier access to the corner.
- Double Powerpoint on island bench
- Installed overhead cupboards with glass inserts between pantry & fridge space. As per derrimut display home
- Butlers pantry. Installed a laminate bench in lieu of standard. Fitted overhead cabinets, for storage of light sensitive food....Will fit ikea drawers, lazy susan, cupbaords after handover
- Fitted an exhaust vent from rangehood to outside. ..Must have...
- 40mm quantum quartz benchtops
- Glass splashback
- Fitted fireplace "Jetmaster SL550" no mantel
- Downlights, 240V
- Ceiling powerpoint, HDMI cabling for future projector
- 5.1 speaker wiring
- Feature wall colour--liberte blue
- Ceiling speakers x 2
- Ceiling fan
- Exterior powerpoints
- Vicash Timber railings,posts & steel balastrades, with decorative balastrades
- Trends & risers also vicash
- Feature walls x2 "Trimal Mask" colour
- Walk in wardrobe: Added 2 shelf both sides. Utilise space more efficiently.
- 30cm more room in wardrobe, as the entire back wall has been moved into the games room. Wall aligns with the staircase wall. "Only 30cm taken from the large games room.
- Ensuite also 30cm longer due to the wall change
- Increased shower to double size. Fiited a ceiling dumper shower head. Note have 2 shower heads. Note: Niche not possible as shower backs onto an exterior wall
- Upgraded vanity basins. Square mosvale type.
- Pin flick taps for both shower & both basins
- Fitted 3 drawers into floating vanity
- Tiled skirting
- Obsecured ensuite window
- Tiled balcony floor. Must have. Standard is only decking. Will fade and rain comes thru to below portico onto awaiting visitors....
- Feature wall
- Added 2 shelfs both sides.
- Upgraded to 205litre aquamax unit
- Upgrade to bigger unit
- Added a thermostat, which is NOT standard
- Added 1-way zoning. Top floor can be independently controlled. Bottom floor cant. 2-way zoning very expensive
- Heater duct in bathroom.....great for the kids
- Evaporative cooling as per promotion
- Privacy locks for toilets, master bedroom
- Deadlocks for sliding doors
- Locks on all windows
- Gainsborough lock for main front door
- Additional taps
- Upgraded all to porcelain (tops) ---cheap option
- Heaps of double powerpoints
- Foxtel TV points
- Dimmer switches, 2 & 3 ways switches
- Foot well lighting for staircase
- Mix of batten & 240V downlights
- Alarm, telephone point for alarm, and powerpointy
- Surge protector in fuse box
- Additional telephone points
- Outside parafin lights
- Alfresco downlights
12 comments:
Oooooh, too exciting!!!! Red doors look fab - you must be so thrilled - and excited!
Just wondering if you have any children? You mentioned something about kids' bathrooms somewhere if memory serves me...and I was thinking if you do have kids (who are old enough to understand!) they would be soooo excited now. My kids already talk about their bedrooms, and moving in (I don't think they quite comprehend time...well, the younger 2) and they've got a while to wait yet!
So, how is everything??? Are you atually moved/moving in atm?
Hi Petal
Yes its very exciting. So this coming Monday, we are doing our final inspection, and hope all is ok and to our satisfaction. Then off to PD head office to collect the keys and handover the cheque.
No we dont have kids yet, we have only been married for 6 months. Plan to have kids in the near future, once settled in.
So initially we have 42 squares of house to enjoy....:)
Flooring will be organized soon after handover...
Your home is looking great as well....
Chat soon
Very exciting (for all of us!). How long was the actual build time? Tell us about the flooring.....
:-)
Great news guys, was thinking of you today and wondering how it was all going. What's going on with your front door handle? Has one been pulled out? We've opted to just have a dead bolt put on and we will do the big long handles (not sure what the correct term if for them) Hopetoun had them at $600 a set.....I paid a third of that! Just bought 21 pieces of bathroom bits and pieces off ebay so that's another thing I can tick off my list. Anyway, back to YOUR house! Looks good, can't wait to see it with a driveway and external lights etc......oh and some pics of the rangehood and oven in too!! Take care, Toni
oh and enjoy all that space to yourselves!!!! I have oh, about 18 years till I have that again!!! Emillie (5yo) said she's never leaving home....I give her about 10 years to change her mind ;-)
Hi Perry & Bernadette,
Yes its exciting....for all. I like reading your blog, petals, house-to-be and others.
Build time, approx 22 weeks. Thats quick. We were blessed with great weather.
Flooring: Downstairs: Vinyl planks that look & feel like timber. Karndean flooring. Low maintenance, ppl often mistake it for actual floor boards.
http://www.karndean.co.uk/products.asp?oz=pvc&range=Van%20Gogh&subrange=Woodplank
Carpet, short pile commercial grade in front study, lounge/study and rumpus.
Stair case: Carpet runner, on stained & varnished steps, all upstairs carpet. And of course wet areas tiled.
Will provide flooring pics when complete.
Hi Toni
Front door lock will be a tri lock.
You must love your ebay...:)
Our driveway will be stamped concrete, light colour, and also a front path to the front door. Will deck the front porch with a step, as in the display home.
Another 18 years hey, gee i fell for you...
Chat soon
Flooring website:
http://www.karndean.co.uk
/products.asp?oz=pvc&
range=Van%20Gogh&subrange=Woodplank
LOL -if you're planning a family soon, you'll have a lot more than 18 yrs!!! Congrats on the recent wedding - we just celebrated 16yr w/anniversary last week (!!!) We were just babies.....no, really! I was only 10yrs older than my eldest son - freaky! Anyway, goo to see some forward planning, and if you don't have kids straight away, you can always have fun practising in your new house!;)
Oh, yes love my ebay! Was really pleased with my purchases and guy is going to deliver them all to my house so that is nice.
I'll be 52 when my youngest turns 20 so that's not too bad. Even if they are still at home they'll be old enough to fend for themselves!
Nice start to your marriage with a nice new home :-) Enjoy it!
Karndean flooring looks really nice, I was looking at their w/s last week and am waiting on some samples. I love the Christchurch, Wellington and the Auckland in the Van Gogh range. Which is funny seeing as I was born in NZ.
Driveway and porch sound great. I love the decked front porch. There is a link on my blog to J&A, they have just done their porch - looks good. We are going to stamped driveway too, ours has to be a grey colour due to Estate Covenant.
We'll all be watching your finishing touches with great interest!!!!
Congrats guys - I feel excited reading about it. We ALL want pics!
Hey Andy!
Looking fantastic mate! We've been quietly following the progress of your build via your blog. It's been great and you've accomplished a great milestone! Building your own home, the way you want it!
We can't wait to follow in your footsteps, and it's very exciting that our project is now underway also! Check out my blog when you get a chance, they surprised us and started work again despite the power issues with the power company.
Was great catching up with you too the other night.
Talk soon and say hi to Simone!
Chris
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