Another long time lurker here - we've just sold our house built by Dennis Family Homes and are finally making plans to build our ideal house - something like a traditional Victorian home with 10ft deep surround verandas. We've been to look at the Harkaway displays and they're lovely but we're not sure whether to go with a kit (not as owner builders though) or whether to have a small builder (no more volume builders for us) build our own exact design, tweaked just as we want it.
From my research, the main things to consider seem to be -
* The full cost of a HH (depending on finishes of course) seems to be around 2.5 times the kit price - does anyone know if this is a realistic figure? May possibly be more for us given the depth of veranda we'd like
* Difficulty finding a builder who specialises in this type of traditional property who's happy to work with Weathertex etc.
Has anyone opted for a Harkaway or similar? Any tips you can offer? We hope to have at least a quarter acre block - up to an acre to build on (country Vic). Thanks