We are at the start of our journey, looking for a two storey custom home designer in Perth.
We’ve noticed you don’t get to see any floor plan or costings before signing up, which I understand, they’re not project builders, but am struggling to narrow it down when everyone says they can work within our budget.
We’ve seen builders who do both the design and build, we’ve seen architects with/without builders, we’ve seen a design company who charge for the design/drawings which we will then need to tender to builders, we’ve seen big project building companies that can custom design a floor plan.
Any advice or first hand experience on custom designer/builders would be greatly appreciated.
Custom home builder in Perth
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Similar situation, decided to get an architect to draw up plans and no regrets. The builders will draw what they want to build and what will hopefully suit your ideas. The drawings are also the builders not yours. If you use an architect, they are your drawings you can shop around.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Similar situation, decided to get an architect to draw up plans and no regrets. The builders will draw what they want to build and what will hopefully suit your ideas. The drawings are also the builders not yours. If you use an architect, they are your drawings you can shop around.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Thanks for the info. We decided to go a similar route through a design/drafting company as architect fees were just out of our budget. Glad your happy
Similar situation, decided to get an architect to draw up plans and no regrets. The builders will draw what they want to build and what will hopefully suit your ideas. The drawings are also the builders not yours. If you use an architect, they are your drawings you can shop around.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Do you mind me asking which architect you went with.
FYI, we're looking at 2 storey on 433sqm block across from the beach so want to get it right, and at the same time don't get ripped off. Appreciate you get what you pay for, but still don't want to pay over the odds if possible.
Similar situation, decided to get an architect to draw up plans and no regrets. The builders will draw what they want to build and what will hopefully suit your ideas. The drawings are also the builders not yours. If you use an architect, they are your drawings you can shop around.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Thanks for the info. We decided to go a similar route through a design/drafting company as architect fees were just out of our budget. Glad you're happy
Same as my query above with ML24WA, do you mind me asking who you used?
Send me a PM.
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I don't see why people don't share their architects, builders, designers, etc names in a thread when someone asks. It's always "..... send me a PM".
Having chekced the terms of use for the forum I do not see any prohibition of naming names - just a prohibition of insulting, slandering, etc, which is fair enough. Maybe I missed a rule somewhere.
Surely stating a fact (like a business name and so on) would be helpful to the person asking and also other readers of the thread.
Can you clarify your reasoning ML24WA ?
Having chekced the terms of use for the forum I do not see any prohibition of naming names - just a prohibition of insulting, slandering, etc, which is fair enough. Maybe I missed a rule somewhere.
Surely stating a fact (like a business name and so on) would be helpful to the person asking and also other readers of the thread.
Can you clarify your reasoning ML24WA ?
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