Fairmont Grand Design - Northern Adelaide

vladmari · Oct 29, 2020 11:26 am

Hello everyone. We are planning to build our home with Fairmont - Grand Design - which we absolutely loved when looked on display in Two Wells. The only design we would not need to modify almost at all internally. The only things we are planning to add are the third garage (as oppose to the big shed at the back), my partner is very keen on a bay window to master bedroom and extend alfresco to cover the whole area between the garage wall to the end of the house.

So we are at the stage when we have the design but don't have land

now our biggest challenge is to find suitable block with at least 22 meters frontage (preferably 24), minimal slope if none at all and in Gawler area (we are happy to look between Angle Vale and Greenock but along the Northern Expressway), and reasonable cost as well

. We have registered our interest with Hillsview Green estate but there is no information about any large blocks available just yet.

This will be my second built but my partners first. I have built about 7 years ago with Statesman and overall was very happy with everything and still happy with my house, over 6 years since we got our keys on 1 August 2014 and no problems with structure, any fittings or anything else.

Any recommendations what to look for with Fairmont?

Any comments on the plan are most welcome.
It is the standard plan, on display there were more options included which we will add as well.

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Manny Calavera · Nov 04, 2020 7:43 am

We are having a very similar house built in Waselys on one of the 4000m2 blocks. We used the Grand design and modified it a little to suit our budget, Shrunk it down to 205m2 internal. Like you this is the only design we came across that that didn't require massive internal changes.

Any idea what the third garage would cost?

vladmari · Nov 04, 2020 11:54 am

Manny Calavera

We are having a very similar house built in Waselys on one of the 4000m2 blocks. We used the Grand design and modified it a little to suit our budget, Shrunk it down to 205m2 internal. Like you this is the only design we came across that that didn't require massive internal changes.

Any idea what the third garage would cost?

Third single garage cost around $5,000 but we still waiting for a quote from the sales person.

Manny Calavera, I wish we can buy such a big block of land. We are looking everywhere at the moment but all blocks are too small for what we want. I found 1 ha block in Lewiston but my partner is reluctant to get that much land as it needs a lot of work to maintain it.