Introducing The Emporio!

Okay, so we are just on the verge of site scrape so I had better start on pages about the house we are actually going to build!

We have chosen the 44sq.m Emporio by MainVue.  Here is the standard Longbeach façade and floor plans taken from the MainVue website.

The major changes we have made to the plans include :


- deleting the struts from the façade

- increase the height of the window above the staircase so you can see out the front of the house from the upstairs living area


- adding a pivot door (I wanted a 2340 height door but due to the façade we chose we were unable to have this because of the design of the balcony - I was a little devastated). 

- increasing the width of the garage (originally we had a triple garage in but to keep costs down and because the format was double door to the right and single garage door to the left, meant it would be hard to manoeuvre the boat or trailers through to the back)

- blocking off the second entrance to the pantry, creating a double door linen

- I love a stair platform at the bottom of staircases, so have added one in here too.  I love the way there is a massive half-way platform in this house.  Above the half-way platform in the corner is the only place I am putting in a feature light, which I bought in January, will post a pic later. 

- combining the study and theatre to make a room large enough for our oversize pool table, and still leaving enough room for sofas or seating

- we also added in a walkthrough bathroom for beds 2 and 3, and an ensuite for bed 4.  To do this we had to select the ensuite option and then combine ensuites for beds 2 and 3 to make our brady bunch style bathroom.  When you add the ensuite option for this house, the walk in linen is deleted, so we had to also re-add that in which was slightly frustrating.  Bed 2's robe is quite small but love that they all have a section of double hanging rails. 

- I was adamant on having a downstairs study originally but this was proving impossible to find when also trying to make room for the pool table, so have changed the dressing room into a study.  There is plenty of cupboard space was you walk into the master which can be for my husband. 

- We have created another WIR by adding an internal wall in the master bedroom (some master bedrooms in current houses are massive - our last house had a large master also).  This still leaves ample space in the master bedroom. 

Still to come, new colours selections, site layout, kitchen design...