Wow! What a day! The Hopetoun girls were amazing - this has been the first time since our sales consultant that we enjoyed our "Porter Davis experience". They were so patient and considerate - made our experience really pleasant as we were quite dreading it all really.
Unfortunately we were 30 min late due to the fact my son who has broken his leg also broke his arm yesterday (yes!!!) so we needed to get him to a friends house to be looked after. We had done our home work - we thought - visited Hopetoun and displays every weekend we could manage. Suprise suprise we still had some areas we hadn't really considered such as the laundry colours and we still made some colour changes to BIG areas such as render and kitchen cupboards. Thanks to the advice of our consultants.
We didn't upgrade too much in the colour stuff - door locks were probably the biggest chunk. (still went went around the four grand mark tho!!) Electricals were a killer : we went for LED down lights at $150 a pop and after 31 downlights downstairs alone it's no wonder we come in around the ten grand mark in upgrades. #@*#$!! How do the others do the six grand mark i wonder?! Perhaps the extras came in the form of home theatre wiring (read: NOT the units) and internet /data/tv wiring for the six, yes six TV points?!!
We are very excited about the colours we have finaly chosen - mostly! I say mostly as we were never entirely wrapped in the red brick (a bit too orange) and were worried that the brown brick would date as did the seventies "mission brown". So after much much deliberation and many rural visits to addresses of the brick we had chosen ( ie: past Cranbourne) we decided as neither were particularly bad and neither was particularly perfect we would go with the red brick and save around $1800 in the Cat two upgrade that the choc brick required. This was particularly re-inforced as we found out the off white mortar was $1400 upgrade!! (Amazing the details we have had to consider)
Biggest tip: the colour you choose for the windows should not only be considered in the facade but also in the interior colours!!
So here goes: (pics to follow) will make sense to Porter Davis buyers...
External
Brick cat one: Austral homestead red gum
Raked Joints with off white mortar
Render to portico and Mouldings: Woodland grey
Garage door : Colourbond Monument
Front door Colourond Monument
(back rear cement sheet : Shale Grey)
Alfresco beams Colourbond monument
Roof tiles Sambucca ( black)
Down pipes and gutters: Colourbond Monument
Eaves: white
Windows Surfmist
Door glazing: Desert Sand
Door handle: Nexion Vision Glide Lever Polished chrome
phew.... will post internals list next time as this is already a huge post.
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