Electrical Appointment - some useful tips!

We had our last appointment at the home options gallery last friday. Eden Brae give you one light per room, not a downlight either. Down lights are $130 if you wish to add them, each. We are lucky enough that my brother is an electrician and can do all of our extras after handover to save a bit of money. So we have moved our light points to certain areas of the house so once we move in my brother is adding the extra down lights we want, as well as extra power points, TV points etc. We dealt with Michelle for the electrical appointment and she was very helpful adivising where would be best to move things to make it easier with my brother adding extras. The alarm system included has two sensors only, so we are going to get my brother to do the whole alarm system as well after handover so we can have a fancy keypad, slim line light box and more sensors. Thanks Tommy, we love you!

Exterior Colour Picking!

We have opted for Sambucca Traditional roof tiles, Smoke brick (at an extra cost), black window frames, monument gutters, sandbank downpipe and rainwater tank, western cedar front door and western cedar garage door. We are doing the driveway ourselves, as we have been given just over $5000 as a credit for getting it done ourselves after handover. The brick colour didn't come out in the first pic,  so I have posted a pic of the bricks themselves at PGH, which we visited a number of times. 

Kitchen & Bathroom colour picking!

We have decided to upgrade our kitchen benchtops and vanities to Caesar stone. The colour we have picked it called 'New Crystal Salt'. It is beautiful! We are using the new crystal salt in the kitchen and both bathrooms. Our kitchen and vanity cupboards we have also upgraded to polyurethane. Kitchen colour being 'New Graphite' and bathrooms being 'Polar White'. The included benchtops and cupboards were nice, but Shane and I didn't like the Laminex. I will put at the bottom of the post the 'included' laminex options that we would have gone with, if the Caesar stone came back too expensive. After receiving the quote we were blown away with Kitchen culture, so we have had to adjust a few things to suit our budget. Everything we liked was an 'extra cost' of course. The above kitchen cupboards we are doing ourselves after hand over. We are also doing our own glass splash back after handover as that was expensive as well. We are also doing the soft closing doors after handover as well as what they had quoted us was well over our budget,  and when we contacted the company who supply them and we were quoted much cheaper. So there is a bit of food for thought!

Interior Paint Colours

We have chosen a light grey for all of the walls (stonebridge) and white (white spirit) for the ceilings, architraves and 3 step cornices.

Facade Options & Prices

These awere the choices we had for our facade. We opted for the Newcrest,  but deleting the cladding and having just Brick. Will upload photos of brick colours soon.

Picked the floor plans!

Hawthorne 31, few changes to make our walk in robe bigger and ensuite slightly smaller. Will upload new floor plans once drawn up!

Welcome to our first blog!

Hey Everyone!

My husband and I are building Eden Brae Homes Hawthorne 31. After many hours, days, weeks and months trying to decide which builder would be best for us we have finally signed with Eden Brae and fingers crossed our journey will be as smooth as possible! 

We are about to have our final appointment to choose colours but leading up to our final appointments my husband and I found other blogs extremely helpful which is why I have decided to create one to hopefully help others out there :)

I will back track and post from the begining.

Hope you enjoy!

Amanda and Shane.