Ray's Adelaide build

Me first!!!!
I'll sign up!!!

yep, 7 pages definitely qualifies for your own thread. Can you post your original plan and estate layout for any newbies that care to drop in?

The initial concept design:

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The size and position of the block (lot 14). The top of the image is north.

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Here too....albeit now at work!

McLaren's here. . . Roll call. . . Anybody else missing?

I'm along for the ride.

I just read through those pages on the custom design thread to catch up. I just have one comment on the idea to have the garden in the middle of the house and build a "pavilion style" house around it.

In our initial ideas we considered having a "pavilion style" design and put a lot of time and effort into this (with the help of many here on H1). We took these plans to a few builders and unfortunately it turned out that none of the builders liked these ideas much as it creates difficulties with the engineering (especially the slab and the roof line) and the building. Therefore if you do find someone to do it, they will charge you a lot extra for it. Estimates on our plans were 50k to 100k extra over the price for a more compact house!

So before you take that idea too far it might be worthwhile considering if your budget allows for this!

Good luck with your design. You are certainly in good hands here. The ideas that people come up with in these discussions are amazing and will help you get a great design for your house.

Ray- I keep looking at the double hallway and whilst I know it was for separation purposes from the main bed room....I think I'd be inclined to add the extra space to bed 2,use soundproofing to walls and bump out bed 3 in line with bed 2. You would then have a smaller hallway with one entrance to access both minor bedrooms & bathroom.....bigger bedrooms has to be a win!