Selection Appointments

Clarendon Create

This was a very long eight-hour day.  Firstly we met with the colour consultant who assisted us with choosing the facade colours, internal colours, tap ware, bathroom ware, doors, handles and any other extras we were wanting to add, ie smart glass to windows, adding glazing to doors etc.

Then it was off to Your Home Kitchen

The following changes were made:

• Extended island bench overhang to an overall of 300mm
• Moved the microwave space from the walk in pantry to under the island bench
• Widened the cutlery drawer bank to 600mm
• Changed the cupboards on either side of the stove to pot draws x 2 on each side
• Inserted a kick plinth to underside of stove to match surrounding kicks
• Install Hettich soft close draw runners to all draw and soft close hinges to all cabinet doors
• Install plastic topsides to pot draws
• Upgraded to Quantum Quartz Reflections stone for kitchen bench tops and Powder room
• Upgraded to Quantum Quartz Luna White stone  bench tops in main bathroom and ensuite

Colour chosen for all cabinetry is Polytec Leather Matt.  We have also gone with a large dark brown porcelain tile called Park Avenue Basalto for the splashback, a very beautiful tile, however I am really worried that it will not look so good with the leather matt!!! I guess I will have to wait and see…..

Genneral Staircase

The only change we made here was to remove the stair nosing from the bottom two steps as we are going to have these done in timber.

Accept Carpets

This was another difficult decision, in the end we went with an almost black carpet for the theatre room and study downstairs and a beige colour for upstairs by Tuftmaster.  We are also having Accent do the timber stairs which will be a very dark stain.  Our consultant was lovely and very very patient 🙂

Ark Finishing Touches

Using these guys are optional, however we want to get as much as we can done before handover.  They are supplying us with:

• Fly screens for all windows
• a security screen door for the laundry
• sliding mesh fly screens doors for all 3 sliding doors
• 13 white bass wood plantation shutters
• 6 timber venetian blinds for upstairs leisure, bathroom, powder room and ensuite.

It was important to us to have the windows covered as we are on a corner block plus I just lurrrve the look of the plantations.

Your Home Air Conditioning

We kept this pretty basic and only added one additional zone upstairs, bedrooms are a separate zone to the upstairs leisure room.

Your Home Consulting (Electrical Appointment)

This is the appointment where you can rack up quiet a lot of expense, so we had to be realistic and sort of stuck to our budget.

Damage here consisted of

• 3 x Ceiling Exhaust fans for the bathrooms
• Wiring for the door bell
• Installing 29 downlights downstairs
• 26 extra light points (for down lights)
• 2 x extra light circuit and extra safety switch
• 3 x dimmer switches (alfresco, dining and family rooms)
• 2 x 2 way switches
• Converted 1 double power point to a quad power point in study
• 8 x extra double power points
• 2 x extra single power points
• 2 x extra power circuit and safety switches
• 1 x motion sensor for front of house
• Junction box for future external light point
• 2 x 2 button remote controls for the alarm system
• 3 x data points
• 2 x TV points
• 2 x satellite Foxtel IQ points
• 2 x conduits for wall mounted plasmas
• 1 x Sydney Digital Aerial

Tile Direct (Tiling Appointment)

This was another very long and difficult appointment, way to much choice.  Here is where you get to choose all your bathroom tiles and kitchen splashback.

We have gone with 250x500mm glossy white tiles for the walls, and neutral coloured tiles for the floors, downstairs bathroom floor and laundry floor different to upstairs bathroom and ensuite floors.  Each shower has a nook with a feature tile running down the centre of the wall and all nooks are bordered with a bright silver tile trim.  I have also added a feature tile to the wall space between the vanity and mirror in the downstairs powder room.  There is also a silver tile trim around the ledge of the bath.

Kitchen splashback is Park Avenue Basalto and we are also getting Tile Direct to tile the main downstairs floor area and the front porch.  We will deal with the Alfresco after handover and obviously this will depend on available funds, after retainer walls, fences, driveway and turf.

Update: due to tile being discontinued, we now have park lane light grey for the splashback