Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building a custom designed home 4Feb 10, 2020 9:31 pm Design prices are usually based on the contract price and charged at a % depending on the content you require. Custom homes don't come cheap. Look up the BDAA (Building Design Association Australia) to find members in your area and Good Luck Re: Building a custom designed home 5Feb 11, 2020 10:37 am I would get a project builder and find a good starting point plan and most if not all will modify to suit your block. There are thousands of designs out there with the project builders. If after all that if there isnt something to suit you will start to get an idea of what you require and sit down with a drafts person and come up with a plan. Architects are always going to be expensive, look at their overheads and they want to manage the build. Re: Building a custom designed home 6Feb 11, 2020 10:04 pm Brett0004 I would get a project builder and find a good starting point plan and most if not all will modify to suit your block. There are thousands of designs out there with the project builders. If after all that if there isnt something to suit you will start to get an idea of what you require and sit down with a drafts person and come up with a plan. Architects are always going to be expensive, look at their overheads and they want to manage the build. I think this is the way to go, unless you have a lot of excess ash to throw about, Maybe research your preferred project builder and approach them with what you're after? Re: Building a custom designed home 8Feb 12, 2020 4:32 pm Hi, we built our house with GJ Gardner Ballarat in 2012...loved the design, price and final product. We now and then look through new display homes and still can't find a house that we like better than ours Re: Building a custom designed home 9Feb 13, 2020 4:24 am We did a custom design, was roughly based on another floorplan from another project builder. I had a list of wants/needs and went from there. The floorplan we ended up with is perfect for us Hi, can anyone recommend a custom home builder who can build in north east area? Looking to build a custom 4-br energy-efficient home with a max budget of 750k. If they… 0 22816 ideal house depends on the site and location as much as internal floor plan....what is the distance from the house to all four boundaries, where is north, describe your… 3 15167 |