So S and I left the children with Nanma and went on another quest looking for bricks and an external colour scheme. I liked Austral's Newport but there is another PD house just around the corner from our block. I knew I wanted white or off white windows, as I want a clean crisp look to the house both inside and out, so that too affected the brick choice. I liked La Trobe but we have seen so many variations of colour with this brick, it appears it has really changed since they moved factories. Homestead Tan looks good, but there appear to be a lot of brown brick houses around us. I liked canterbury, but we have it on our current home, so I did not really want to take it with us to the new house.
Today's trip took us to Cranbourne North and we saw a display house with "Nougat" bricks and flush off-white mortar. We both really liked it but we were sure that it would be "another upgrade". We had already upgraded to cat 4 bricks ($2.3k) when we thought we would have the Newport. So off we went to Hopetoun to find out how much more this was going to cost. Whoo Hooo!!!!! They are a cat 1 brick, so just saved $2.3K. However, we decided that the Tudor roof tile would look best, so we need to upgrade to cat 2 roof tiles. Bet that wipes out any saving on the bricks.So the exterior colours are: (drumroll please)
Bricks: Austral Nougat - cat 1
Roof: Monier Barramundi in Tudor profile - cat 2
Gutters and Fascia: Colorbond Ironstone - Upgrade to colorbond from Zincalume (still think that on a Prestige house, you should get this standard!)
Downpipes: Colorbond Ironstone (upgrade)
Garage Door: Colorbond Ironstone
Windows: SouthernStar Birch White
We are having the Traditional Facade with no render anywhere and no portholes (if you see the sketch you'll understand) all in all the house will be a house, clean lines in crisp colour.
Tender on Wednesday, fingers crossed all goes well and we get a November 2008 start.
Now, if I could just decide on colours for the kitchen.....
5 comments:
woo hoo
good on ya for selecting exterior colours.
Exterior colours and Kitchen are always the most difficult to do, but good job, well done, your colours look fantastic and that too in Cat1 without any extra cost for what you actually wanted....now this will create a history...he he he
All the very best for the rest of your selections.
Hey, well done, another decision made! Great roof tiles... and guess what, for us to upgrade to those tiles only cost $744.00 - so you shouldn't wipe out your savings on the bricks. Now on to the kitchen....
And another thing... you were able to upgrade to Colourbond fascias/gutters etc?? I didn't know that this was an option!! Is it a structural variation and do you have any idea on cost?
Good luck with your tender this week - hope it comes back as acceptable - excited to follow your progress!
Hi K and T,
We did not know that we didn't get colorbond gutters etc until I saw a topic on Homeone. Our CSC said that it "would be about $1500" considering that we would need to paint the zincalume every 3-4 years, we thought this was a must have. Sorry, no idea if it is structural. Check with your CSC, our said that she would give us 3-4 days after tender but that was it. You can only try. Great news about the tiles cost!! Thanks
Congrats on making the selections. That's one major headache over and one the kids will be thankful for too! Good luck with the Tender app't tomorrow.
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