Living and Dining

The living and dining areas are part of a lovely open plan area including the kitchen and the study.  I will deal with them together as it is simpler to do so.

Doors

The only doors in this area are out to the alfresco.  We have upgraded the standard sliding door to aluminium, 5-leaf bifold doors.  To accommodate the bifolds, the opening on the wall had to be increased to 2100x3600mm.

Walls

Walls will be Wattyl Flokati

Wattyl - Flokati

Tiles

In keeping with the rest of the area, the tiles will be National Tiles "Wet Cement" 300x600mm polished porcelain tiles.

National Tiles - Wet Cement

Lighting

Standard for this area is two batten lights, one over the living area and one over the dining area.  We have upgraded these to eight LED downlights; four in each area.  The two sets of four will be switched separately, and both will be double switched to both ends of the room.

LED Downlight

Electrical

The dining area comes standard with one double power point, and we have not added any to this area.  In the living area we have upgraded the single double power point to a quad power point.  We have also added pre-wiring for a wall mounted TV in the living area, which will provide an additional single power point.

Double power point

Quad power point

The living area will also have a phone/data, TV and pay TV point.

Study

The study is part of the open plan living/dining/kitchen area.  There is no door, and the two half walls have large voids in them.

Tiles

The study, despite being part of the open plan living area, comes standard with carpet.  We opted instead to upgrade to tiles for continuity in the house.

Tiles will be National Tiles "Wet Cement"

National Tiles - Wet Cement

Walls

Walls will be Wattyl Flokati.

Wattyl - Flokati

 

Lighting

We have upgraded the standard batten light fitting in favour of 4 LED downlights.

LED downlight

Electrical

We have changed the standard double power point to a single quad power point.  The study will also have a phone/data point.

Quad Power Point

Ensuite

The Drysdale 30 display in Craigieburn

The above picture is the Drysdale display in Craigieburn.  I haven't been able to find a picture of our shower rail, but this picture shows it, and also shows tiles very similar to our selection.

 

Shower

We have increased the size of the shower to 900x1200mm.  The shower base will be tiled and the screen frameless.  We have added a 325x1025mm niche to the shower.  As part of our "Indulgent Pack" we will receive an Olympic 3 function hand held shower rail, as in the above picture (you can also see the niche in the reflection in the mirror)

 

Vanity

We have upgraded to a double vanity.  The basins will be Stylus Symphony and the taps Caroma Aqua Basin Mixers.

Stylus Symphony

Caroma Aqua Basin Mixer

We have upgraded the vanity countertop to Caesarstone in Latte.  The cabinets below will be laminex smoky sappelle.

Caesarstone - Latte

Laminex - Smoky Sappelle

Toilet

The toilet is the standard Raymor Bella Plus Link Suite II.

Raymor Bella Plus Link Suite II

 

Glazing

The window above the toilet has been upgraded to obscure Spotswood glazing.



Spotswood Glazing




Tiles

Floor and shower tiles will be National Tiles "Wet Cement" 300x600mm polished porcelain tiles.  Vanity splashback will be National Tiles "Silk Olive" 300x600mm, with the line pattern horizontal.

National Tiles - Wet Cement

National Tiles - Silk Olive

 

Walls

Walls will be Wattyl Flokati

Wattyl - Flokati

 

Electrical

We have added a double power point to the end of the vanity, for a total of two double power points.

Double power point

 

Lighting

The ensuite comes standard with a single batten light in the centre of the room and an exhaust fan over the shower.  We have added a second batten light over the toilet.  In the picture at the top of the page you can see a half wall at the end of the vanity.  Behind this is the toilet and although there is a window above the toilet we were worried that there would not be enough light at nigh, so we have added a second batten light above the toilet, which is switched separately to the other light, but on the same plate.

Batten light

Exhaust fan

Master Bedroom

Doors

The master bedroom entrance is a double (well, 1.5 door) set from the entry.  The doors will be Corinthian Balmoral 2 in white, one in 2340x820mm and the other 2340x520mm.  Door handles will be Lockwood Velocity Summit L1 with privacy set.

Corinthian PBAL 2 Double

Lockwood Velocity Summit

We have added a door to the ensuite, the Corinthian Balmoral 2, 2340x820mm in white.  Door handle will be Lockood Velocity Summit L1.

Corinthian PBAL2

Lockwood Velocity Summit

Carpet

The bedroom will we carpeted with Belmont "Old Leather" cut pile plush.  I can't find a picture of this.

Walls

Walls will be Wattyl Flokati

Wattyl Flokati

 

Electrical

We have added two double power points to the master bedroom, for a total of 3.  There will be one on either side of the bed, and one opposite.  We will also have a phone/data, TV and pay TV point opposite the bed, one of four such points through the house.

Double power point.

Lighting

The light in the master bedroom will be a single batten light to the centre of the room.

Batten light

Entry

We have done a bit to (hopefully) make the entry impressive.

Front door

Corinthian INF8GWS

Lockwood #142 Pull Handle

Lockwood Paradigm 005

We have chosen the Corinthian Infinity 8G in 1200x2340mm pivot door with single sidelite and clear glazing.  There is a chance that we won't be able to have the 1200mm wide door, in which case we will have to choose between the 1200mm with no sidelite or the 1080mm with sidelite.  Unfortunately due to the new bushfire regulations we will have an aluminium fly screen over the front door, which we may remove post-handover.

Pull handle is a lockwood #142, the only pull handle option available to us.  We will have a Lockwood deadbolt and roller bolt.

Ceiling

Throughout the house we 2590mm high ceilings (in lieu of 2440mm standard) as part of the Street Appeal promotion pack, but in the entry we have raised the ceiling to 2740mm.  We saw this done in the display of the Jasper 33 at Keysborough to great effect.

Lighting

LED Downlight

The entry will have two LED downlights before the bulkhead and a third after the bulkhead, switched together at the door and also in the kitchen.

The portico light switch will also be in the entry.

Doors

Corinthian PBAL2

Corinthian PBAL2 Double

Coritech Construction

Lockwood Velocity Summit L1

Lockwood Symmetry 005

The entry will also contain two internal doors.  To the garage is a single Corinthian Balmoral 2, 2340x820mm.  To the master bedroom is a double Balmoral 2 configuration, a 2340x820mm and 2340x520mm.

All internal doors (except the pantry) are Balmoral doors, with Coritech construction.  Coritech is a semi-solid construction of  MDF and polystyrene.  The door is 2-3 times heavier than a standard door, with a high acoustic level.  Internal handles are Lockwood Velocity Cummit L1 in polished chrome.

The garage access door will have a standard knob and a Lockwood Symmetry 005 deadbolt.

Colours

• Wall colour is Wattyl Flokati.
• Tiles are National Tiles Wet Cement 300x600 polished

National Tiles - Wet Cement

Wattyl - Flokati

Electrical

We have added one double power point to the entry.

Kitchen

So now that we have locked everything in, I am going to try and do a little "room by room" of our colours and upgrades.  It might be a little repetitve in the short term, but I'm trying to make the whole blog make a little more sense, so please bear with me for now :)

 

Colours

• Walls are Wattyl Flokati.
• Benchtop is Caesarstone Ice Snow
• Underbench cupboards are Laminex Licorice Linea
• Splashback is Dulux linseed on starfire glass
• Overhead cupboards are Laminex White
• Floors are national tiles Wet Cement 300x600 polished



Caesarstone - Ice Snow



Laminex - Licorice Linea



Laminex - White



 

Dulux - Linseed



National Tiles - Wet Cement

  

Wattyl - Flokati



 

 

Appliances

Blanco BWGG90X

Blanco FD9085WX

Blanco DWF6XP

 


The oven and diswasher come as part of our "Gourmet Kitchen Pack".  The oven is an upgrade from an Omega oven.  With the promo comes the FD9085FX, which is 3 standard burners, a wok burner and a fish burner.  However, we don't eat fish and would much prefer to have an extra standard burner, so we changed it to the FD9085WX with 4 standard burners and a wok burner for no charge.  Standard is no dishwasher.  The rangehood we have upgraded as it was not included in the pack (the standard was a much less attractive Omega).  We have added a kickplate to the oven as well.



We do not need a dishwasher, as we have one that we love currently in 'active storage' with a family member.  We were using it freestanding in our old house, which is why we were able to move it.  However because it was part of a pack it has no value in the context of our contract, so to take it out would have made no difference to our bottom line.  We will have the dishwasher delievered but not installed, and we will see if we are able to sell this one.

 

Sink and taps

Sink mixer

Blanco BJARAH8S

The sink is the standard Blanco 1 and a half bowl stainless steel sink.  Included in the Gourmet Kitchen pack is the very industrial looking Brewers Italia flexible sink mixer tap with vegie sprayer.

Lighting

LED Downlight

Light under overhead cabinets

Batten light

The kitchen will have 3 LED downlights in the roof, as well as 4 'under cabinet' downlights above the bench/cooktop.  We will also have 3 batten lights for feature pendants above the island bench.  The roof downlights and the battens will be switched together, and double switched so they can be turned on at either end of the kitchen.  The under cabinet lights will be on their own switch at the end of the bench.  There will be a single batten light in the pantry.

Electrical

Double Power Point

We have added one double power point to the pantry for a total of two doubles, as well as adding a double powerpoint at the end of the bench for one at each end.  We have also added a double power point to the end of the island bench.  There are additional power points in the fridge space and the dishwasher space.

Doors

Corinthian RMDF1

The only door in the kitchen is the pantry door, which will be a Corintian flush panel cavity slider, 2340x820mm in white.