Made a home selection with Clarendon

After looking at a no of plans, we decided to build with Clarendon. Loved their display homes. So it was time to speak with their sales rep. Did an initial cost analysis and found the home that we have selected nearly within our budget and took the floor plans home to analyse and see what we can modify. The good thing was if you are moving internal walls they dont charge anything unless you move wet areas. Looked at the plans, made some changes and met the sales rep at her office the next weekend to do some initial plan changes.

Spent around 2 hours to making rooms bigger, changing bathroom locations and converting guess room into a bedroom, making wall articulations to meet The Ponds developer requirements. Could see that the rep needed a coffee once she was done. Took the plans home. And if that was not enough, went back to sales rep to redo everything, could feel she wanted to go out and breathe fresh air after another 2 hours session. I guess the prospect of her sales commission kept her going.


With initial plans done, it was time to get them into proper drawing. Paid 1000 to proceed with drawings.

Heads up to whoever looks at the display homes and think their home would end up the same. All homes are displayed with optional extras, make sure you know whats included and what not than getting disappointed later on. To get a facade as on displays can cost you as much as 50k. So make sure you ask every thing out. We wanted to go for gallery facade but when we heard the costs we backed down to Elite, which looks nice as well and doesn't cost a fortune.

Started looking at plans, selected Clarendon

After selecting our block of land at The Ponds, we started looking at the display homes to do our selection. We went through a lot of display homes at Kellyville, The Ponds, Oran Park and Gregory Hills. The Metricon houses were the ones that we liked the most, but turned out bit expensive for our budget. Eden Brae home were also good. Didn't find others impressive as we wanted to build a double storey home and most of them only specialise in single storey. Eden Brae homes were good but found their rooms wouldn't suit us. Looked at Clarendon homes and they had a good range of double storey ones at slightly cheaper price. So first look at one of their homes and we decided that we could merge rooms to our taste. Made more visits to their display home to make sure we are going for what we want. Next, its time to speak their sales rep.