Building a Home

[love_the_life]

The home looks fabulous and I just know there will be many happy times there. Doggies seem to have settled right in.
Thanks for sharing the build as it went along and now the finished photos.

 

[Buzzard]

A home to be proud of.

 

[cove]

Well done @samh004.

 

[Major]

Looking good @samh004

 

[VPS]

Looks fantastic

 

[Bundy Bear]

I was lucky to visit for dinner on Saturday night, looks good makes my place look old.
Kitchen was impressive,

I was also impressed with the champagne glasses that came from Finland.

 

[Duncan]

It seems everyone is building a home these days, there's perhaps nothing else to spend money on, so @frankie and I have decided to do the same. We almost bought an existing house, but the building and pest didn't pan out for us so we opted to withdraw the offer. After more searching and touring some display homes, we ended up deciding that a new build would suit us much more than an old build with unknown problems.

Our land settles next week, just a small block (14m x 30m) as I have decided that I'm not good with garden upkeep over the last 5 years at my current home. We've also chosen a single level house, which means we're losing a lot of the land to the back but we feel the layout inside will be nicer. This all plays into not having a big backyard though, which means less work for me.

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The builder is Brighton, as we liked their floor plan the best, and we've already locked in the layout with a few changes (butlers pantry, larger walk-in-robe). Our first design/colour meeting is this week. They also had some good inclusions at the time we signed the contract.

Hope you got a fixed price contract with timber n steel shortages. Timber up 30% n Steel about 40%. Signing a new contract without legal advice puts the builder in your pocket.

 

[samh004]

Hope you got a fixed price contract with timber n steel shortages. Timber up 30% n Steel about 40%. Signing a new contract without legal advice puts the builder in your pocket.

Perhaps reading to the end of the thread before commenting on the first post 11 months ago might make more sense?

 

[Duncan]

Well done.

 

[Lynda2475]

Kitchen looks fab Sam, love the blue and the island, great choices.

 

[Drakecula]

It looks fabbo! The dogs are loving it clearly.

 

[Carrots]

An uber important question (and perhaps a lazy one void of any pre searching)...

What's the white SL model details?

 

[frankie]

An uber important question (and perhaps a lazy one void of any pre searching)...

What's the white SL model details?

1972 350sl

 

[samh004]

An uber important question (and perhaps a lazy one void of any pre searching)...

What's the white SL model details?

As mentioned by Frankie, it's a 1972 350SL with the hardtop on, owing to the rather cool weather right now. The top can be detached and driven like a coupe, or with a soft top. The exterior has had a complete restoration and the engine has had some mechanical works, but the interior still needs some love. In any case, it is my fathers but as he's in Hong Kong and the car was ready to be collected, it now lives with me so I can keep it safe and give it a good run every so often. Provided he has no troubles flying into Australia next month, it will be in his hands soon enough.

 

[Carrots]

As mentioned by Frankie, it's a 1972 350SL with the hardtop on, owing to the rather cool weather right now. The top can be detached and driven like a coupe, or with a soft top. The exterior has had a complete restoration and the engine has had some mechanical works, but the interior still needs some love. In any case, it is my fathers but as he's in Hong Kong and the car was ready to be collected, it now lives with me so I can keep it safe and give it a good run every so often. Provided he has no troubles flying into Australia next month, it will be in his hands soon enough.

You should try telling him that you've lost it, it's nowhere to be found, that you're terribly sorry, and then park it around the corner whenever he visits.

Magical cars. Am on the hunt for a 560SL - the oldman has had SL's since before I can remember, but the last 80's build he had was a 560 and it was simply magical compared to any he's had post 1990.

 

[samh004]

You should try telling him that you've lost it, it's nowhere to be found, that you're terribly sorry, and then park it around the corner whenever he visits.

As mentioned, if the interior had completed restoration at the same time as the exterior that might be a wise choice... but I may wait for him to invest the time and money into the full restoration before I take more of an interest. My main focus right now is the lovely TD5 to the right of the SL, that needs about the same amount of time and money investing into her. When complete, this should solve my non-flying travel needs around Australia.

If you're interested, happy to share some photos via email of the interior and why I am not enjoying that so much.

 

[Julesmac]

Wow you have a lovely home Sam, it looks great. I like what you've done in the kitchen. Contrats and now you can sit back and simply enjoy

 

[samh004]

Can't remember if I mentioned the few issues we had post-moving in? Our AC has a wifi controller, but it wouldn't connect for us. We called the installers and they replaced the module pretty quickly. Our floating floor moved a little, stopping the patio door from sliding open properly, again, a simple call and a technician lifted it all up to shave a few millimetres off it. A leak under our sink had a plumber visit last week and finally, a drain pipe that was hidden next to our driveway will be sorted next week – on that note, appears this is where the site supervisor got his revenge for dobbing on him loaning out our power, but the resultant back and forth emails have probably left him in even more trouble as our builder (company) at first said they wouldn't help and are now going to fix the whole thing.

I had another AFF member visit last week, @JessicaTam.

 

[samh004]

I spent a day earlier this week re-arranging the wine space to a better layout. The larger of the fridges has been relocated to my study, while the small beverage centre now sits between the two racks on a different wall. At some stage we hope to add a counter above this smaller fridge as a drink mixing station/dry bar. The jury is still out on how we will effectively cool this space come summer, but I have seen homes with large glass walls encompassing such spaces... not sure if this is feasible.



The picture hanging rails have also been installed throughout the house now, allowing for wires to hang wherever we choose and art to move about freely, without leaving behind holes in the wall. I got the system from Click Rail Picture Hanging System

 

[VPS]

I spent a day earlier this week re-arranging the wine space to a better layout. The larger of the fridges has been relocated to my study, while the small beverage centre now sits between the two racks on a different wall. At some stage we hope to add a counter above this smaller fridge as a drink mixing station/dry bar. The jury is still out on how we will effectively cool this space come summer, but I have seen homes with large glass walls encompassing such spaces... not sure if this is feasible.

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The picture hanging rails have also been installed throughout the house now, allowing for wires to hang wherever we choose and art to move about freely, without leaving behind holes in the wall. I got the system from Click Rail Picture Hanging System

I'm just looking at Picture rails for my place. Any particular reason you used Click? Did you paint them? I had originally planned to have mine down from the ceiling a bit but I went to a place the other day that had them right up against the cornices and I think they look better