Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Waiting For Land To Be Ready Before Choosing A Builder 3May 04, 2015 11:02 pm Custom build Northern NSW viewtopic.php?f=31&t=72217 Re: Waiting For Land To Be Ready Before Choosing A Builder 6May 05, 2015 8:34 am Hi, I wouldn't worry about the houses your neighbours are building. You have to be happy with your house, not how it 'fits' (or not) with the neighbours. You will probably find that most people are building quite modern looking houses (vs. traditional/Victorian style) anyway. Picking a builder: do you know what you want in a house? Or not want? For example, do you definitely want a theatre room? Or not want one? Do you want an undercover outdoor area? At the back? At the side? When considering who to build with, my husband and I figured we would go with the builder who had the floorplan we wanted. Finding he right floor plan, and modifying it slightly if needed, is much cheaper than finding a builder and getting them to build a custom plan. We knew that we didn't want the following: Front living area that wouldn't get used Theatre room We knew we did want: one storey large undercover alfresco large open plan living area decent sized kitchen a fair amount of storage rumpus room ("man cave") So, we then took our time to go through all of the builder's websites and looked at all of their floorplans. The ones that met our criteria we wrote down, and after going through all the sites we went back to our list and printed out each of the floor plans. Believe it or not, there were only seven! Having them side by side, we were able to compare them all and narrowed it down to three pretty quickly. We then went and looked at these display homes and made our decision quite easily as to which we preferred. As a result, we found our builder. Hope this helps!! My blog: tashandpaul.wordpress.com Use a product like Equisol's Vitalise to clean the deck then coat with a penetrating timber oil. It will look 10 years younger and add value to your home. Visit for… 1 15792 Ardo That is so funny! I wonder how many people know who Larry Haun is these days. I have a couple of young guys we call Mo 1 & Mo 2 who run a crew of 6 boys and… 9 15513 You should check your detail drawings, it may show downpipe within brick pier. 14 14099 |