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PART 6: GIVERNY & SAMUEL’S JOURNEY
WOW! We’re handing it over today and what a journey! We always love seeing our client’s homes come to life but to be able to share Sam & Giv’s build journey as first home buyers have made it even more exciting for us.
As a building ‘relationship’ usually lasts about 6 months from start to finish, we wanted to find out from Sam his thoughts on their supervisor, and the rest of the Ausmar team.
What’s your supervisor’s name, and what’s he like?
Our site supervisor is Russell. From our first meeting with Russell we could just tell we were in good hands. He knows his stuff, and is constantly offering pointers to help us make decisions on finer details, and has ensured a high quality of workmanship across all the trades involved in the build. I don’t think we could’ve asked for a better supervisor!
How does it feel to meet the team working on your home, onsite & behind the scenes (office) ?
At times we have to step back and remember that although it feels like it, we are not the only ones building with Ausmar at the moment. The whole experience has been so personal and comforting. From Roger at the Sales office, Russell on site, to our amazing Client Liaison Officer Emma, who deals with all our paper work and updates our journey on the My Build Diary and Bec for her style advice at Atelier., The whole team at Ausmar have been so great to Giv and I, and we feel incredibly lucky and thankful for everything they have done for us along the way!
Don’t forget to head over to Honeyeater.Place and follow Giv & Sam’s build journey, they move in this week!
Read about their experience from the beginning here
PART 5: GIVERNY & SAMUEL’S JOURNEY
Now the kitchen is official in, the tiling is complete and we’re literally counting down the days until Sam & Giv do their Practical Completion Inspection we thought we’d check in with Giverny and ask about her vision vs reality!
Once the kitchen was installed & the tiles were in – how did it feel to see all your selections?
It felt so surreal! It is always nerve-racking to pick everything from samples and hope it all comes together. Once we saw it installed and the whole design we were SO happy with our choices, we wouldn’t have done a single thing differently.
We know you chose your colours at Atelier, Ausmar’s design studio – but now everything is in, is it exactly what you visualised?
Atelier made everything so much easier, to put all our choices, colours textures together and look at it as a whole rather than going place to place was amazing. It gave us such a good visual of what the house was going to look like, and now it’s all in it’s better than what we visualised! It looks like a designer home and it’s only our first house! We can’t wait to style it!
Did you find the Atelier Design Experts guided you through this stage?
Our design expert Bec was amazing, she has such a good eye for design and knew the look we were going for just from having a chat with us and looking at photos we had saved. We trusted her 100% and if Sam and I had trouble coming to a decision, Bec gave us some really great advice to help us out. She let us make it ours but at the same time helped us bring our vision to life!
Don’t forget to head over to Honeyeater.Place and follow Giv & Sam’s build journey, they move in VERY soon!
Read about the final chapter of their building journey here
PART 4: GIVERNY & SAMUEL’S JOURNEY
Painting is complete, the kitchen is in & tiling is about to start! It’s all systems go at Giv and Sam’s home now that we’re back from the Christmas break. Feedback from most clients up until now is always “wow! Everything is moving so quickly” and then our trades move inside and whilst there is still heaps happening – from the outside it looks like we’ve stopped works. This was another reason we introduced My Build Diary, to show clients the progress of the home as we understand the excitement you feel when you can see everything developing onsite.
This week we check in with Sam to ask a couple of questions about designing their first home;
Once the slab was poured and the frames were up – how did it feel to be able to walk through the house you helped design?
Walking around and through the frame for the first time was pretty surreal, and really the first time that it actually felt like a house. It was exciting to see the sizes of the rooms and piece it all together after only ever seeing it on paper.
We were both so happy with seeing the size of each space and room and knew that we had picked an awesome floor plan that will suit our lifestyle perfectly!
If you were to give any First Home Buyers a piece of advice when designing their first home, what would it be?
Not that we are experts, but if I were to offer any advice, I would say just make it practical. It doesn’t have to have all the bells and whistles, it just needs to be a comfortable and enjoyable space.
Don’t forget to head over to Honeyeater.Place and follow Giv & Sam’s build journey, they’re also happy to answer any questions about their journey so far!
Read Part 5 of their journey here