Barratt Homes ‘Option List’

MrLiamScott

I cannot find any details on the Barratt website and have tried emailing them to no helpful answer so I wonder if anyone on here that has purchased a new build Barratt home can tell me what ‘Options’ you can choose? I would like to buy an apartment and I am struggling to understand what you can pick? I understand you can choose your bathroom tiles and kitchen tiles/cupboards/worktops but do they let you pick anything else? For example light switches (E.g chrome) or the colour of your walls/kind of shower or bath you have etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated and if anyone had a Barratts list that would be even more appreciated... Thanks!

RelievedSheff

It depends what stage the property you are buying is at. You need to reserve your plot pretty early to get the choices.

For example the kitchens and bathrooms are ordered at the stage when the roof is ready to go on. So if you reserve after the roof is on you won't get that choice.

You can upgrade light switches and sockets to chrome but you would be mad to pay Barratts to do that as they want circa £80 per socket/switch to do that. It is much cheaper to replace them yourself at a later date.

Showers and baths will be standard items you won't get a choice of those.

MrLiamScott

That’s great thanks for that information! At first they said I couldn’t pick anything but now they are saying the roof will be put on soon so I can choose my bathroom/kitchen options. I just wanted to know if there was anything else I would be missing out on/not being able to choose or if it’s pretty standard throughout all Barratt Homes.

RelievedSheff

We bought a David Wilson Homes house which is part of Barratt Homes.

The specifications for each site are slightly different so you would need to check what is standard and what is an extra on your particular development.

The standard kitchen in our house for example is an upgraded kitchen in this house type on different developments.

Mutton_Geoff

I really wouldn't get too hung up on this. A bath is a bath is a bath. As long as it's a white suite, it will be fine. As for tiles etc, how long do you spend in the bathroom?


It's easy to get sucked into spending more money customising your "forever home" but don't forget, you will recoup none of it when you come to sell. Just accept their standard spec and furnish/decorate the home to your own taste.

RelievedSheff

Mutton_Geoff wrote: »

I really wouldn't get too hung up on this. A bath is a bath is a bath. As long as it's a white suite, it will be fine. As for tiles etc, how long do you spend in the bathroom?


It's easy to get sucked into spending more money customising your "forever home" but don't forget, you will recoup none of it when you come to sell. Just accept their standard spec and furnish/decorate the home to your own taste.

Whilst I agree to a point there are things we wish we could have added to our house at the build stage, but we were too late in the day when we reserved the plot.

A shower above the bath in the main bathroom for example. To retro fit it now would mean replacing the bath, adding a side screen, tiling more of the walls in matching tiles and of course the installation of the shower itself. All much easier when the home is in build then to do now,.

It wasn't a deal breaker as there are only two of us living in the house so we use the shower in the en-suite but when we have people stay it would have been easier if they had their own shower in the bathroom rather then having them using our room. First world problems of course:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

xthrash

RelievedSheff wrote: »

Whilst I agree to a point there are things we wish we could have added to our house at the build stage, but we were too late in the day when we reserved the plot.

A shower above the bath in the main bathroom for example. To retro fit it now would mean replacing the bath, adding a side screen, tiling more of the walls in matching tiles and of course the installation of the shower itself. All much easier when the home is in build then to do now,.

It wasn't a deal breaker as there are only two of us living in the house so we use the shower in the en-suite but when we have people stay it would have been easier if they had their own shower in the bathroom rather then having them using our room. First world problems of course:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Exactly the same for us, we were surprised at how many new houses come with a "family bathroom" but no shower over the bath. It's something we would definitely look at adding on in the future.

I recently added a shower to our bathroom and looking back it was quite a fun little project and it turned out well. But I'm not in a rush to do it again and it cost quite a lot, especially buying tools ill probably never use again like a large tile cutter, waterproofing kit, tile scribe, tile saw and diamond drill bits, etc. It was also incredibly messy and would be much easier and quicker before the other fixtures and fittings are in place.

Monkeysocks42

We purchased a new built from Barratts. We were able to select the following:
Kitchen cupboards
Worksurfaces
If we wanted integrated appliances (the integrated washing machine is a washer dryer and I've not met anyone with a good experience of washer dryers!)
Hob
Amount of ovens (ours had 2 as standard but some only had 1)
Extractor hood
Tiles
Flooring
Shower over the bath
Bathroom mirrors - we didn't select these but then couldn't put any mirrors up as there was cabling and pipes behind the bathroom walls but we were able to get Barratts to put us in touch with their supplier who glues the mirror to the walls
Socket covers/light switches - even the salespeople told us not to bother with this as the cost was so high compared to what it would actually cost to do!