We've been in our Airlie about a month now! Time has flown - not that we have got much done, being Xmas & NY, haven't been able to organise much…

If Hynes/UTF is still their supplier then you can def get timber top floors - here's a link to the brochure that used to be on their website before it…

They are category 3 boards - the range was called Provincial and the colour called Van Gogh. Not sure if it's even on offer by Boutique now? The supplier -…

We are super close to doneski. Had a quick inspection on Tuesday, then we have the "new home presentation" booked for Monday. Very happy with how the place looks &…

Our SS arranged for us to go out & meet the tiler & go over our tile choices & laying patterns. I don't think it would've been too hard to…

We are building an Airlie 33, with a few mods. (One of the changes i really wanted to make to the basic floorplan ended up becoming an official option for…

Thanks for the recs! Might look into some of them. I actually walked past Arranmore in Armadale the other day & thought their furniture looked beautiful & bookmarked them for…

It's interesting to hear other people's experience with Boutique.
I always wonder, how would they react to the things that have come up during our design & build - and vice…

Our bricks started going up! & swiftly were up! Then came render, then upper roof. Then upper story cladding, then garage roof.
We had to get our block cleared Donaldouk, it…

We are getting opaque film applied to our windows later, donovansdaily - have to do it for our development guidelines - but we decided to do film instead of the…

Well done Donaldouk - only 2k over budget is not bad for electrial IMHO. There's always those things you don't know about that you chuck in on the day (like…

We spent just over 9k on our electrical (two story house). I don't know why the basic electrical provision is so effing crap! I guess so they can advertise a…

Yes we are! Airlie 33 with a few amendments. We picked the Contempo facade & upgraded the cladding to extend around the whole upper story. I'm soo glad we did…

" title="Bulgy eyes" /> I still can't quite believe how fast things seem to be rocketing along.

Nasher we definitely discussed pulling the pin when we were toiling through the prestart phase too. But we'd invested so much time & effort & really liked the plan -…

Our site costs was in the region of $30k... so it doesn't sound excessive to me. I guess it depends on what sort of site class your land is. Ours…

Hello all. Longtime lurker finally coming out of the woodwork. We're currently building in inner west Melbourne. Getting close to lock up stage! (donovansdaily, we are basically building across the…