Our second and final day of selections is here.
We weren't too sure what to expect at the electrical appointment and therefore were not fully prepared. We met with Malinda whom was very nice and patient with us. She called our job up on the screen and we proceeded to go through each room and decide where to position each power point, tv socket, light switch etc. We didn't anticipate spending more than a couple of thousand dollars on electrical upgrades, but ended up spending over $5,000! Its amazing how quickly it all adds up.
Some of our upgrades consisted of the following:-
- Switch wire for 7 x fans throughout the house
- Provision for 3 x wall mounted TV's including extra noggins and bull nose wall plates
- Under cupboard light boxes (for kitchen cupboard downlights)
- Double floodlight for backyard
- Double Fluoro light for garage
- 4 x junction boxes (for outdoor lighting to front facade)
- 2 x dimmer switches
- 8 x additional double power points
- 3 x additional single power points
- 1 x additional outdoor power point
- 3 x additional TV points
- 1 x additional motion detector for alarm system
- Additional battens for future pendants over the kitchen island and downlights in a number of the rooms
- Pre-wire for NBN
- TV antenna
- Upgrade alarm to the Navigator package
At the completion of our layout the computer played up and our job was lost. Malinda advised she would do another mock up after we left and email it to me for checking. Of course if this was going to happen, it was going to happen to us.
We left HOG and headed over to Di Lorenzo (after a quick stop for lunch at the Bella Vista Hotel).
At Di Lorenzo Tiles we met with Elisa for our tiling. We believed we were completely organised for this appointment as we had spent countless days and hours at Di Lorenzo contemplating various colour schemes. Admittingly, all the preparation in the world doesn't remove the second guessing that comes with making major decisions.
We decided on a larger wall tile in the standard tile selection for both our ensuite and main bathroom, and standard floor tiles for the bathrooms and main floor area. The only upgrade was our feature bathroom tiles. There were additional costs to lay the larger wall tile but apart from that, we managed to keep the costs down.
We then met with Tilly for carpets. We upgraded our underlay to the blue rubber underlay at $8 per m3. The standard underlay was almost as thin as a sheet of paper. We chose carpet within the standard range as we agreed that we would re-do our carpets in a few years. This appointment was very quick as we had already decided which carpet we wanted prior to this day.
Having finished our colour selections, we were excited to get the land registered and building under way. It was all a waiting game from this point on.
Pics of our tile selections...
Bathroom & Ensuite wall, floor and feature tile
Bathroom floor tile (matt) with mail floor tile (shiny)
Carpet
