Ganilton's Hamilton: Colour Selection

Let's go through the details bit by bit.

This is the summary of external colour selections.

There were some little 'surprises', for example, we did not expect an extra charge on the bag and paint, nor paying extra for translucent glasses of the front door.

In the photo of our facade - Chase, there are 2 paint colours and the wall around the garage door is brick. However, for any extra colour (more than one) will cost $300 per colour. Because it is a different mix, not just a paint colour.

Again, driveway, fly screen windows, window locks, upgraded facade, patio tiles, letter box and mount, water tank, upgraded external laundry door and cloth line are all included in our package.

*Bricks

- reviews of Everyday Life bricks are fairly good. It is longer wearing, and the colour does not fade as quick as some of the other fancy bricks. Upgrading to a nicer colour brick outside Everyday Life range varies from hundreds to thousands.

- pay attention to the brick type - exposed or general.

*Roof

We love windspray!

Gutters, fascia, eaves and downpipe

windspray roof and surfmist bag and paint

*Window/sliding door frames

We chose white frames and assumed it will come with white handles. But NO! The default colour is black! If black colour is allowed in our estate, we would have black window frames and some a lot money on matching handles. In memory, it was like $110 for white sliding door handles and $40appx for white window lock and handles. So.. NO! I found this photo online, black and white mismatch looks totally fine for awning windows.

white window frames with black handles

back handle on external sliding doors - MJH display home

*Fly screen

Originally we liked to add couple of security screen door at the back and in the front - with MJH. The quotes we got are between $500-800 (incl installation ) depending on the size of the doors. But... MJH charge $1,100 for crimsafe fly screen doors like this.

security fly screen door lock we like

But if you are happy with diamond security doors like this. Then it only cost $350appx, which is a reasonable price.

diamond shape security screen door

So we only picked matching fly screens window frames (white frame with black mesh) as part of our package.

Importantly, the tracks for the rear sliding doors has extra track included for future fly screen door installation! Love this little detail from MJH. Not sure if other builder provide little convenience like this. But at least we won't have any nasty surprises when doing the fly screen doors after handover!