Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Estimating costs 2Sep 12, 2021 3:09 pm Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Estimating costs 18Sep 15, 2021 8:59 pm If you are going for a complete custom job, I would say 950-1.2m is probably accurate - depending on the quality of your finishes. I agree with other posts, you probably need to find the block prior to designing the house (unless you are going rural and will have a huge property, then you can design what you want and rotate for the best use of sun etc). Another option is to head to a display village and have a look at some of the volume builders - I think McDonalds Jones does granny flats too. You can get a rough idea of the costs of building a two story house through them, and then add the cost of the granny flat. Their "Avondale" with considerable allowances and some minor floorplan changes was costed (over a year ago) around 650k in Canberra (that said, i probably would have spent another 50k in their design studio). So, I imagine a granny flat would be 100-150. So total through them would be around 850ish. The granny flat's a great idea if they're going to retire and help with child care etc. But if they are only going to stay for a week or two, three times a year - I would save the money and hire them an Airbnb. Best of luck! Re: Estimating costs 19Sep 15, 2021 9:04 pm "If you are going for a complete custom job, I would say 950-1.2m is probably accurate - depending on the quality of your finishes." We're probably not going for a custom job, more like trying to build a high quality "standard design". Does that make sense? ie. We aren't very picky about layouts or facades or specific rooms, but we want it to be a long lasting house with good insulation. (Does that make it a custom job?) re: Your house costing 650 - Thanks! That helps give me an idea of where costs are. What was the size of the home? Re: Estimating costs 20Sep 15, 2021 9:26 pm https://www.mcdonaldjoneshomes.com.au/h ... floor-plan Custom = architect/draftsman and a smaller builder. Volume builder = already have designs (above) (you usually can make some adjustments) The cost of 650 was for double glazed with some good allowances for electrical/data/better tiles/appliances etc (although trade prices have increased in the last 12 months; so it’s likely a bit more now) When covid restrictions ease; just go to a display home, pretend you’ve got a block somewhere - they’ll happily talk your ear off about prices etc - just add 50-100k to whatever they say and you should be fine. Looking to tile the facade pillars rather than rendering. Builder is quoting 2500$ laying cost for upto 10msq. The 2 pillars come to be 16msq. So laying costs are 5000$… 0 8920 10 16518 Ha all, I am now about half way (maybe a bit more) through my build with Carlisle Homes - double-storey knockdown/rebuild project. So I am now doing my due diligence and… 0 4308 |