We’ve nailed the tiles. And the stone benchtops. It didn’t take too long. Four full days of comparing the subtleties of grey marble veins with grey but slightly more silvery marble veins, in various stores in Malaga, Wangara and Osbourne Park knocked it off. The virtues of Matt, Satin or Gloss finishes were discussed in…
Category: House Selection
New Builder Appointed
We had to walk away from Plunkett in the end. After a placatory phone call from the Sales Manager, and even after the Salesman (sorry New Homes Consultant) offered to give up a fraction of his commission on the deal, we thought about continuing with them and stomaching their iniquitous price hike – but it…
Plunkett’s fall from Grace
What a bad experience we’ve had with Plunkett recently. A $26K price increase, out of the blue. Here’s the story: We signed a Preliminary Agreement with them in December. We did that because they gave us a quote that included a base price for the house. Variations were extra – fair enough. Next step for…
Quiet Celebration of Settlement
I know it sounds a bit corny but I wanted to pop a cork over our newly acquired piece of sand. I didn’t think anyone would mind, especially not the government, who had just that morning charged us over ten grand to send us a copy of a piece of paper via email. Still, I…
Builder Selected
We agreed on a builder. It’s Plunkett. It was a close thing, we whittled the field down to a shortlist of two. Plunkett just seemed to give us the most confidence that we would get a quality home within 18 months. Why did we choose Plunkett? Read on… Price wasn’t really a factor for us….
Sculleries and… Alfrescos
Well, we’ve been looking for a few weeks now, and all the houses are starting to blur into one. It seems that the most important feature of a house is to have a scullery just off the kitchen, and that if you have a house and it doesn’t have a scullery you might as well…
First Design Session
After quite a few trips out to look at display homes, we’ve managed to narrow down our selection of builders to a shortlist of three. We’ve picked one to try to refine some of the plans that we’ve seen along the way, and so we decided to try an initial design session to see if…