Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Nov 12, 2012 9:25 pm Hi there, We live in Hervey Bay QLD and have been playing around with house designs for the past cpl of months. Our land is north facing, with a little lake on the north west corner. We hope to design the house to include good views of the lake while maximising the northern aspect for the living areas. The garage is placed on the bottom right hand side (due to the awkward angle of the land this is the only option for the garage. We had planned to have the living areas all lined up on the right hand side of the design and then the living areas along the bottm (to the left hand side of the garage, moving towards the west and opening up onto the view. If I am facing the property, the garage is on the bottom RHS, to the right of this is the entry and then the kitchen is meant to be to the left hand side (looking at the property). Then in front of the kitchen is the dining - then moving westward (but still facing north) is the living area and tv area. To avoid the western sun, we were thinking of angling the living areas towards the little lake. We also thought of placing the patio/alfresco area at the north western angle at the end of the living areas (not directly facing north like say in front of the dining). We thought that this alfresco area might be able to block the western sun - we could add some sort of blind on the alfresco area the western side of the alfresco and have the alfresco facing the lake (north north western). This leaves plenty of north facing windows/doors where dining area and living areas are. Is this a weird place to have an alfresco area? I notice that so many QLD homes are so dark and we want to avoid that. The house shape would be a backward L shape, with the left hand side (western side) slightly angled up and shading the western sun. Would this be weird place to have alfresco? Or are they normally dead on north facing, if you have land that allows it? Also we are trying to work out best place to have tv area. One of our options is where the design moves angled toward the north, north wst lake, we thought this could be a good place to put a TV area. But this means that the TV area is on an angle - not a "square". Do house designs like this exist, or will it look really weird to have a room angled off? Thanks heaps Versaloc is a mortarless besser block system that still needs a properly engineered footing. If you just do a 400x200 footing it will fail in time. At 17m long you need it… 1 17943 of course there are legal avenues. You've already mentioned it. Sue them. I find it odd that lawyers wouldnt be willing to take on the case, given CCT evidence and… 1 23782 I posted the floorplan on Houzz.com forum and got some really good ideas and advice from people there. Then we reached out to a couple of renovation companies and one… 5 10098 |