Hi All,
I've just stumbled on this forum and am excited to get reading through everyone's posts. But first, my intro...
My wife and I are about to move onto our second house build. We've had a great start so far, we built a house with Hickinbotham in 2008, at Sellicks Beach on a block we bought privately. We then spent every spare minute doing the landscaping of the whole place, and finally decided to sell it after we bought our second property.
We've now got a 25 acre property in the little town of Mt Compass and are starting to plan our next build which is looking like it's going to be an owner build. We've been considering kit homes and looked at a lot of different designs over the last few months and I've been working away on Google Sketchup, playing with differnet layouts etc.
The property is 99% flat with two creeks that have water all year round. It's got a lot of character with an old stone ruin that's from the mid to late 1800's.
Anyway, just a quick intro for now, I'll upload some pics of our first build and some of our property and where we plan to put the new house. In the meantime I'm going to endeavour to read as much as I can on here.
Thank you all in advance for the info provided on the forum. I hope to be able to help out where I can as well. My dad built the house that he lives in today, with the only outsourced work being the tiling in the living areas and the truss manufacturing, so I'm pretty lucky to have him as a mentor.
Cheers,
Scott.