Hi All,
We have just finished unpacking and have moving boxes available for someone wanting to pick them up from outer SE suburbs in Melbourne.
Please send me a message if you…

Hi zerosignal,
Thanks for your input. guess what, we have chosen the coastal facade .
In the end we didnt like the kingston facade as coastal…

You know what this whole 18 week thing is such a farce, its almost put us off building. All these builders whether its biggest (M) or whoever, they take you…

Thanks anotherUser for sharing your experience. We have spent $4000 and last 3 months to get here and now we get this, so we are a very disappointed

Thanks for that insight Sarahq. I will give these people a call.

Thanks for all your replies. Big M does make a big promise about 18 weeks build time GUARANTEED , but our CSC told us that they are taking 30% longer…

Hi all,
Our builder (big M) gave us the contracts today with 324 days build time for a single…

Thanks Sarahq for the info, I have been looking on the net but I think coz of first home buyers rush, all the prices have shot up

must say Alamanda is a very nice estate indeed. that display village has to be one of the best that I have been to.
Just a question to alamanda-buyers : what…

Hi Aimeh,
You are right abt the microwave, we both feel same as well but havent really done anything abt it. We have made a couple of other changes to kitchen…

Hi Aimeh,
excellent choice we are also building santorini 29 There are a couple of ways your…

GSK, Its always handy if you someone in the trade , but I don't think it should be more than $10 to install a…

Thanks very much Joles, I will email my CSC and ask them to revert to standard.
Tell me about it ken007. Are you saying it takes $50 to upgrade a standard…

Thanks Joles, Yeah, I know!!
We are building a single story only and because this is our first home we know nothing about it. From what I have heard or…

Hi All,
We just went for our electrical appointment (building with M in Melb) and when we asked that we just wanted standard batten points for future downlights, we were told…

Hi,
I posted this in the wrong forum I think. we are building our first home with M and went for our colours selection yesterday and have come back thinking whether…

hi Annietom,
Wall colour is light rice half, which is kind of colour that we have in the rental that we are in right now and we liked the colour so…

Hi All,
we are building our first home with M and went for our colours selection yesterday and have come back thinking whether the choices we have made will look good…

Thanks Aimeh, Hels and joles for your input.
Aimeh - I am not a huge fan of weatherboard too but this photo is that of lumeah coastal while santorini coastal…

Hi fellow santorini builders,
I have just started a new thread "need help with facade" and would really appreciate your input.
malik

Hi All,
We are building santorini 29 with big M and need help with choosing the facade. We had happily settled for coastal which looks similar to this below (except brick…

hi FionaD
what a coincidence, these are exactly two bricks we are tossing between. the only difference is that in our case they are cat 3 (building with big M). In…

Hi Aimeh,
we are also planning to build santorini and we are thinking of coastal. plantation is quite nice too. M has just come up with a new facade Kingston at…

beautiful colour selections!! you have done a great job, it will look great. excellent choice!

Thanks for all your inputs.
Joles - you are right, I actually visited their tarneit display today and chelsea has the same layout too as the grandview you mentioned. so we…

Hi Joles,
Thanks for your input. You actually took the time to look at other displays, so really Thank You! Yes, you are right, this is santorini! M's designer homes -…

Thanks for the replies guys.
Jessica - thanks for that. I think I will email my CSC to make that fridge space flush to the pantry wall.
Jess - That bulkhead is…

Hi Jess,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, yours is quite similar. But how do you think mine would look as now you have this wall (fridge space), not aligned with anything,…

Hi All,
We are building our first home with big M. We have a made some changes to kitchen layout and are a bit confused as to how this would look…