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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Too many Choices

The whole choosing colours has been a nightmare, I have driven everyone nuts with my countless trips to Brick yards and looking at random houses.
We have finally chosen PGA Brick POA, with a Barramundi grey roof colour, Ironstone gutter and facia, White garage door and windows and white mortar. The driveway is a grey colour paver.
Inside I tried to keep it simple but with child/stain friendly colours. Cream/Brown and earthy colours.
Kitchen is licorice Linea with a essastone white top(new crystal salt) that matches our floor tile, and aluminium and frosted glass doors on the top. Bathroom is the same but no stone top, laminate new ash dust instead.The wall colour is wrong but I don't really care, won't be long before we re-paint. Can't be bothered driving all the way back to Sydney to re-select it. And well now I am just over it all. I chose budget floor tiles for the bathroom much to Dans horror, it is a wishy washy brown also but I really want to afford air con and his shed so I started to cut costs where I could. I also bought solar panels for the roof which I had not budgeted for.
All the standard range with Eden Brae is far better than most other builders so the need to upgrade in my opinion was not necessary. I did spend 3 grand extra on electrical but this included energy saving down lights to living areas and kitchen/entry etc and extra power/phone and gas points.
I spent $1600 extra on the kitchen and got very little for this...While the overhead cupboards were thrown in free in our contract when I changed the layout from a u shaped kitchen to one with an island bench the over head cupboards had to be extended. The microwave that came in the kitchen upgrade package didn't include installation ie a space built in the cupboards...$530 later...(I was a bit pissed about that) and a kick board to cover the legs of the free-standing oven! Oh and two pot drawers. Not exactly excessive. The Lady from the kitchen company was not overly helpful once she realised I was not planning on spending up big on extras.
The electrical guy was great and 18 emails later we had it exactly as we want it. Funny how when I did it on my own I only spent $1100, came home and Dan said but......!!!!and it then cost $3000 more, but it's all done.
I spent a whole $43 extra on a bigger bath and was pleasantly surprised the shower niches were free : ) Sorry Dan you didn't get the $500 fancy shower head.
They over quoted on several things, not sure if this is deliberate or not but It is a welcome surprise when they include things free or at less than the original quoted price. If it is, it's great psychology!

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