Our dreamhome - Waldorf 42

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Day 1 Selections

I was so nervous for this day as we had to decide so much in so little time. Luckily we had Amy, who works with James Treble , to help us. She was very knowledgeable and helpful and made the decisions easier. We also had assistance from Amy Tanner.

Complete Home Consultation DAY 1

Date: Tuesday 24^th January 2017

Start Time: 9:00 am

Duration: Approx 6 Hours

We had to discuss colours for gutters, skirting, driveway, front door, garage door, plumbing, blinds, air conditioning , kitchen, door handles and doors.

Choices we made:

Brick : Stone

Mortar: Off white (upgrade)

Roof Tile: Barramundi Horizon Monier

Joint type : Ironed

Gutter: Monument

Fascia: Dune

Downpipe: Dune

Windows: Sufmist

Garage Door: Dune

Eaves: Surfmist

Water tank : Dune

Using the PGH Visualiser (not using our actual house) it looks like this but it is not accurate:

The combination that PGH showed us was like this:

For the kitchen we chose:

Polar White Natural Finish Cupboards

Silica Essastone benchtop (standard)

All draw kitchen at the bottom (upgrade) with no handles

For the bathrooms we chose:

Silver Riftwood natural finish for the vanity cupboards

Silica benchtops

Changed all the showerheads to Caroma Pin as meant to be more powerful spray. Left the powder room with the Dorf Jovian showerhead

for the house we chose:

Walls : Gemini Silver

Trims: Crisp White

Front Door: Quantum timber stain - Dark oak

Driveway: Colour on concrete - Gunmetal

We changed the kitchen island from a L shape to a long island, got an oven tower with two Smeg ovens.

We upgraded the aircon to a more efficient aircon and have 4 zones

Chose roller blinds - some with blockout and some with sunscreen. We decided not to go with motorised blinds. We paid a deposit with Abbey blinds and Shutters and we can change things closer to the time.

Some other choices / upgrades we made:

The glass splashback for our kitchen (standard) against out stone counter (Silica)

What the blinds look like

Colours for the blinds

We chose the door handle with the two dots that is in the standard range.

We chose the straight standard handle for our front door (we will get two for our double door front entry - one is just a dummt handle)

We upgraded the toilet so that we will have no gap between toile and wall. Less dusting and cleaning and a neater look. This will go in all the bathrooms.

Chanhed the kitchen tap to this pull down mixer tap in both the kitchen and butlers pantry

Standard toilet roll holder

The small white shower head is the one we chose for the upstairs showers.

Driveway colour - Gunmetal

Front Door stain - Dark oak

Saturday, 21 January 2017

Bricks

We are building the Waldorf that is in the prestige series so we were able to choose bricks from range A & B then the costs started going up.

Range A : Dorset, Hampshire, Kent, Surry, Outback, Coral, Wheat, Dark Rum, Silica

Range B: Gibson, Kalahari, Sahara, Simpson, Sinai, Gravel, Stone, Smokey Grey, Ghania

We chose Stone (previously called Cement)

We chose off white mortar (upgrade) and ironed

Monday, 5 September 2016

Eden Brae Waldorf 42

I went to Homeworld Kellyville to see Metricon as I loved the Liberty and the Franklin. The Liberty could not fit on my property but the Franklin did. I got brief help but did not find the lady very helpful. I took a wonder at a few builders and that was when I was introduced to the Waldorf by Eden Brae.

I did research and also went to go see the Fairmont by Clarendon that I also loved. I took my daughter (15) to see it and she did not like it and turned me off.

Took my family to see the Waldorf and they loved it. The boys were just so excited to be getting their own room and could not believe they would all have their own bathroom. My 15 year old seemed to make claim to her room straight away and then the boys (12 and 9 ) had to choose theirs.

And so then our journey began in Sept 16

Photos from display home