Wall Colours

In preperation for a very quick turn around at colour selection I also made a decision on the wall colour.

We have to choose from the Solver Builders Paint range, or be charged a fortune. So I have chosen the Cumulus colour, apparantly it is the only paint that is white with just black. Though apparantly there black is a little 'blue'.

I went shopping today and bought a sample pot of Cumulus, and a canvas from a Reject shop. I will paint it up tommorow and see what it looks like.

The guys at the Solver store said they could 'give me a deal' on buying paint for the whole house, that I would need about 300 ltrs ? or that it would cost $300. 300 ltrs seems a lot, but I guess it is a big house. The Solver guys said to let Statesman do there thing, and then get a seperate painter in to paint with the 'washable' paint they have.

So I will email Statesman and ask for a quote on getting 3 coats of paint, the top two coats with this Maxi Wash paint. Then I will ask this painter that does painting for Dad what he would charge to just do the walls. He won't have to do the skirting boards as they will have been done by the builder. So photos tommorow of my wall paint, hopefully :)

Carpet selections

The bank manager told us that if we get quotes for carpet and tiling we can add it in to the home loan. These are two things that we have missed out of building cost in order to save money and get a better price (as suggested by the land agent who used to work for the company we are building through :)

So I wandered across the road to Solomon's carpets yesterday and picked out a carpet that matches the tiles perfectly.


They upgraded the underlay for 'free'. However the quote still came in at $5744 for the 4 bedrooms, study and theatre room. But I like the carpet. However sensibility is telling me that I should probally get another quote from somewhere else to.

The carpet has a 20 year warranty, and the thread is dyed before it is woven, so it should never fade. It also has a 'memory' that apparantly will make the carpet 'spring' back in to shape when you get it cleaned.

But yeah, might get another quote, as the Statesman quote for the bronze carpet range was only $2700.

Settlement fun

We got a phone call Tuesday from the bank. They won't settle on the land without the bank pack from Statesman so that they can do a complete assessment on the property. Even when they do get the bank pack, it will take them about two weeks for the assessment and final approval.

So I rang our Sales Consultant in a tizzy, settlement is in 3 weeks!! He suggested I call the land agent and see if I could push settlement back. So I rang the extremely lovely land agent, who said if I can get a 'good' date from Statesman as to when the Engineers report will be done then she can extend the settlement date on that.

Our Sales Consultant was supposed to get back to me today with the date. Not a word, rang and left a message. Nothing. So will call him again tommorow :(

But on the upside if we can push settlement back another month, that is one less month that we have to pay interest on the home loan.

Someone else is using our bricks!

I went up to the block today to see if I could detect wether or not the Engineer had been out there and done his thing.

There are two other blocks with dirt being levelled and ready for slabs. I was so envious. I can't wait till we get to that stage.

I also noticed another house in the estate being built with the bricks that we want to use. The bricks we have chosen have been discontinued and there where only 20,000 left. I hope there house doesn't use more then 10,000 otherwise we might not get to use them, and I have my heart set on them. On a plus note, cream windows look terrible with the brick we have chosen, so thats made one decision easier. I will have to drag hubby out on the weekend to have a look at there place. On the plus side, if we run in to the owners they might be able to say if they got charged more for the bricks, they are building with Hickies.

13

Inspired by a thread on the HomeOne forum I rang the local council to find out what our new house number is going to be.

13

Yep 13, not sure wether or not to be freaked out or happy by this. The Chinese think that 13 is very lucky. So we shall see ;)

Which Lol cat are you?

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51% Affectionate, 42% Excitable, 60% Hungry

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Some changes..well a few

Hubby's parents visited the other weekend, and we took them to look at more display homes, particularly the Adelaide at Noarlunga, just to see how they had done the tiles etc. It was all the same, however in the Format homes he saw for the first time a cavity sliding door to a wardrobe, and loved it! *smacks head* I had been asking for this for ages, and he poopooed the idea, however now that he has seen it, he is quite keen for it to be done. So I rang our sales consultant and asked if it was to late to make changes. He said "no" so we sat down and came up with a list of everything we wanted to change. We came up with the following.

Remove Portico (turns out neither of us really liked the portico, and we thought it was the other who wanted it)

Sliding cavity doors to WIRs in all bedrooms – this then enables us to have the 3 shelves and 4 draws in bedroom 3 as drawn on the plan

Add back 4 draws and 3 shelf unit to WIR in bedroom 3.

Shower spout (shower head) raise to 2000 in ensuite and main bathroom

Shower tiling to 2100 in ensuite and main bathroom

(We have chosen a Beaumont tile (03102) it is 200 x 300mm and we have been told it is in Statesman standard range, so we would like this laid vertically, so that it will be 7 tiles high in the shower alcove, and 5 tiles high for the 1500 tiling around the rest of the bathroom).

Remove the extra row of tiling in the laundry – we will be having the 200x300mm tiles laid vertically in the laundry also, so no longer need the extra rows.

Change under bench oven from gold range 900mm oven to silver range POP667. (we saw the westinghouse 900mm oven and for an extra $1500 it wasn't worth it)

Add a standard internal door from kitchen to dining area

Add a standard internal door to study

Add solar hot water system

Add a broom closet to laundry

Add internal sound proofing insulation (could you please give us costing on this) either

a) all internal walls of the house excluding the walls housing the WIR

OR

b) Adjoining wall bedroom 3 & 4

Adjoining wall bedroom 4 and rumpus

Adjoining wall family and bedroom 4/hallway

Also I don’t like the look of the cornices on the front exterior of the house over the windows. It makes them look sleepy. Can they be removed above the window line for the front of the house? I have pictures if you need a definition of what I mean.

We have picked out a brick from the Austral range called ‘Seacliff’. It is a discontinued brick however they have 20,000 left. I think you said our house only required 8000, the Austral liaison with ACS is expecting a phone call to quote on the bricks. We are crossing our fingers that it won’ t be any more than a normal bronze/standard range brick.