Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Advice Needed - sacrafice backyard space for more living 4Apr 10, 2012 10:39 am Some people apparently have nothing better to do than comment on other people's sigs. Re: Advice Needed - sacrafice backyard space for more living 13Apr 10, 2012 7:26 pm http://lindeman28.blogspot.com - Our building blog Advice Needed - sacrafice backyard space for more living?? 16Apr 11, 2012 7:46 am We built the Wisdom Majestic 40 - moved in! Our blog - http://ourwisdommajestic40.blogspot.com.au/ Our H1 thread - viewtopic.php?t=54156 Re: Advice Needed - sacrafice backyard space for more living 18Apr 11, 2012 11:03 am Building a Delta 21 at Craigieburn - http://homeofzero.blogspot.com.au/ Deposit: 26/02. Contract: 22/05. Settlement: 29/05. Site start: 18/10. Re: Advice Needed - sacrafice backyard space for more living 19Apr 11, 2012 9:09 pm PolkaDots Thanks everyone for your views and thoughts. It really does help to hear from other people with children. I love the cubby house idea Lot927! Onewheel If you are worried about storage space, consider an attic storage system. We don't have much storage space in the current house we are in, so we have an attic system, accessed via the garage. Lots of things we don't use often, such as suitcases, Xmas decorations etc are stored there. Do you have to do anything to the roof trusses in preparation for an attic if we wanted to do this further down the track? I don't think you need to do anything with the roof trusses unless you want the access to be in a certain spot, but then again I am not an expert. Ours is accessed via the garage, the pull down stairs went where the existing man hole was located, we had no issues with trusses in that location. We are planning to get attic stairs again for our new house, but we will have a 2 storey home this time and the man hole is in the hallway between two bedrooms so not sure if that is the best location, however the original man hole location was in my WIR, no way did I want it there, so we requested it be moved to the hallway. So check where the man hole location will be in your new home as that could be used for your attic stair access. Anyway, have a look at their website, link is below. You could also ring to enquire more if you were keen so you will know what things you need to consider with building your new home and get any necessary changes to the plans to accommodate attic stairs if possible. http://www.atticladders.com.au/ We LOVE our attic stairs, we store lots of things up there.......so when we move it have to go in the garage at first . I'm sure once we see how much space our stuff takes up in the garage we'll probably have to get the attic stairs again as soon as we move in, lol We built the Wisdom Majestic 40 - moved in! Our blog - http://ourwisdommajestic40.blogspot.com.au/ Our H1 thread - viewtopic.php?t=54156 I would be wary. Is you site demilished but nothing else done? Sounds like liquidity problems to me. Our builder did the same. Got hundreds of thousands of dollars of… 2 15390 i think option 2 is much better with easy access to the garden without having to walk through the new sunroom which makes it a better room for guests and TV .a simple… 2 8199 Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 6888 |