Lousy Organiser for a Builder ... Great Start

Yes, I 've been told Simonds stuff up and they have arleady - at STEP 1. the colour appointment blunder, lets call it.

We've rec'd a call in early Jan booking us for the 29th of Jan - and on the 25th of Jan, another call has been made to cancel, reason being, OH, the customer service lady shouldnt have rang you anway, the paperwork is not in yet - do you know who she was? I had momentarily forgotten but when the caller gave her name, it was her!! I was quite upset due to the fact that it was not easy trying to get Daniel baby sat for a longer period of time during the day and Dave and I have to work around our work schedules. No remorse and even after calling them to push it through, I had to call on Wed, 3.30pm to find out for myself ( no calls from them)to see if its on but its not. it was just a No, and thats it- Are u going to compensate for my childcare, No we dont do that- I wonder, What DO YOU DO if you cant even get simple paperwork right???

And now what, no follow up date to refix the appointment - DISAPPOINTMENT guys, something so easy, but yet too hard for a large organisation like Simonds. Yes, not on my recommeded list of builders!

Still Dirt!

Back of the land

Frontage

Here is where our new home will stand in time to come - at the moment, its all dirt and they are trying to build a road. Nothing much happening but interesting to see how it comes together soon - they said Land will be titled in March so things will start happening then I hope.

Wall paper

We've been to the wallpaper and paint shop in the city over the weekend - I like this but dave doesnt..

Another wall, another dilemma... this is sweet but obviously I'm getting a lot of NOs lately.

We settled on this print - Dave wants this but I am wanting to go for colour, so...

We thought this is the best option. ( by far) I wanted to paint the other corners of the room this colour to match but Dave is hesitant - ( you got the pictre of the NO NO NO - man, I feel like a toddler already, hearing so many NOs. kinda fustrating.

The hunt goes on....

Chocolate Bricked Amberlea

I've managed to get a kind soul to do this for free from work for me, although it takes ages to do up a proper parapet and a baulstrade, I'm sure this visual works well to see the colours of the house. Now am comtemplating on window awning colour....... the list goes on!

Brick Selection Dilemma.. again

This is a really basic replication of how the bricks would look like - if we picked a Parchment brick ( as above) & a choc brick selection ( below)

Note that the render in the dark brick - is not green! Somehow excel changed colours for me.
Any feedback would be great.

Simonds Gallery Tour

There we were on Sat, greeted by choices, choices & more choices. a headache is brewing already! Colours colours everywhere!

I absoloutely love this door and am hoping to get it ( subject to $$) and hope that I can get the baulstrate to compiment the grilling on the door. This is the classic style ( not the standard - so have to pay more) *fingers crossed!

Another BIG BIG dilemma, we originally wanted to go for Parchment bricks but seen some houses ( not too sure if they are 100% parchment) that have extremely yellow bricks - we want a lighter feel not a yellow feel! so we are examining our options to go for a darker house - and use chcolate bricks. The problems is both of us feel 50% towards both and being female, my preference changes all the time.

Here is our combo if we choose the Parchment bricks - a dark ironstone colour render ( see right of pic) and a dark blue steel colourbond garage door.

And if we pick choclate bricks, we will go for a lighter - beigy render and either a light or a reddish garage door. ( some sites have advised not to emphasise on garge doors and go more bland).

At the end of the day, we brought back home with us too many samples!! Where to start! We ended up going to the display home with them the next day and ending up with maybe going with waht the display home had at the start. We'll see I guess.

Tour Booked in!

We are all booked in for the Simonds Gallery Tour this Sat, 9th jan just to have feel for colours and other selections. Our actual appointment with them falls on 29th Jan so we want to be ready.

Sounds like fun & looking forward to that!