I think it went fairly smoothly, we spent all weekend making a list and checking it a million times and reading forum.homeone.com.au and staring at plans and trying to imagine everything that we're going to need. I'm sure we missed heaps of things, the lady at pre-start bought up a few good points, but I think we had pretty much everything covered.
The only thing that we really got pricing on straight away was the electrical additions; power points, conduit, lights etc. We managed to keep it under about $1500 which I'm pretty happy with. An itemised price list of all the other additions we requested will be made up and emailed to us in the next couple of days, there are a few things on there which we mostly added just to see the price but probably won't go ahead with, but most of it we really don't want to be without.
We went to the Caroma Dorf showroom on the weekend and had a look at all our bathroom, toilet, kitchen and laundry inclusions and noted a few bits and pieces that we would like to upgrade if the price is right. Ashly found some photos of them on the various manufacturer websites, here they are along with some photos of other bits and pieces:
Caroma Cosmo Towel Rail
Caroma Cosmo Shower Shelf
Caroma Cosmo Hand Towel Rail
Caroma Cosmo Toilet Roll Holder
Caroma Liano Kitchen Sink Mixer(This is over $500 retail, so god knows how much it's going to be from the builder, we may end up buying it separately and putting it in after handover) Stupidly expensive, but the Kitchen is somewhat of a feature.
Dorf El Toro Bath Set. These are actually quite similar to the standard inclusions, so we'll only be getting them if they aren't too much extra.
Dorf El Toro Sink Set. Same goes with these as with the bath set.
Venecia Wall Faced Close Coupled Toilet. These are all ceramic and are just plain nicer than the plastic standard ones. We did get an upgrade price on these and it's only about $110 extra per toilet, so these are just about a definite.
Clark EVBU Undermount Sink, 2 of these in the Kitchen island bench.
20mm Green Tea Essa Stone bench, with undermount sinks and Caroma Liano Flick Mixer, our bench top will also have "waterfall" sides flowing to the floor as in this photo.
Midland Brick Handmade Sandalford Bricks
Midland Brick Handmade Caversham Pavers
That's just about it for now, in the next couple of days we should get our costings and can work out what we can afford. I'll post another update when we get that, so until then, good bye!
