Browse Forums Building A New House Re: House plans to suit acerage 6Mar 24, 2010 11:21 am If I was to win Lotto, I would build with a different builder, now to win lotto Re: House plans to suit acerage 7Mar 24, 2010 3:25 pm Thanks for your replies so far. I decided to start a blog today for our building adventures. Here is the link http://chooksnest.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-blog.html . In my first post I have included a plan for the land. We are Lot 2. Our driveway is right next to the boundary with Lot 1. We intend to put a shed about 1/3 of the way down near the boundary with Lot 1. We will roughly build near where "2" is written on the plan. I initially thought we'd have the front of the house on the long side of the house (which will be on the long side of the block), but now due to where the driveway is situated we think we will have the front of the house facing the shorter side of the block. We like the saw tooth roofline look and building with a few different textures like linea board, maybe rendering or colorbond?? Thankfully we don't need to find a builder. My brother in law built for us 12 years ago and we didn't have 1 hiccup so he will be doing the building again. We will see him over Easter and I'm sure he'll help us with some plan ideas, but we just wanted to have something to show him and we just can't seem to get it together so I guess that is why I initially posted to see if others have built on acreage and what worked for them. I didn't think it would be so hard, but corner blocks aren't easy. I need to have a look on here and see if there are some threads on septic/sewerage treatment plants. That is one expense I'm not looking forward to but thankfully we are able to tap into mains water so will only need to buy the one tank at this stage. Not exactly sure on our budget yet. We are tidying up a few things at our current home and will then sell it, so it depends on what we get for it, but I'd like to say around $300K would be our budget. I'll try and get back later with some ideas we have scribbled down. Thanks again. Re: House plans to suit acerage 8Mar 24, 2010 4:07 pm Seems to me like you have the perfect opportunity to build green! You have the space for excellent orientation, and saw-tooth design roof gives you excellent advantage of sunlight (given the right orientation) and using your roofline as a heat chimney. As for sewerage, have you looked at the biolytix systems? They are a complete black water solution and seem to me to be a far better alternative that your standard sewer pit. Last time we were looking at them they came with a pricetag of around the 10k mark i think. You can then reuse the water for subsurface watering of your gardens - much less waste. I can't wait to see what you come up with for your block! What an opportunity you have =) Re: House plans to suit acerage 9Mar 24, 2010 4:32 pm We have an acreage as well but only 1 acre but it is also on a corner section, and our driveway and building is pretty much where you are placing yours (in relation) by the way you describe it, but our frontage ends up being on the long side of the road, and the longer part of the house also following the road. What we did with ours is had it as a L with the short end going along what would be your boundry to Lot 1. That way the alfresco area was overlooking the bulk of our land, and there was a space for a swimming pool in the future (we were hoping to buy it after the build with the spare money, but due to delays, lawyer costs for a issue we had etc that money is not enough for a pool at this stage). Also by placing it as close to the boundries as we could we have as much of our land free to play with as we could get away with. We have an attached garage so it is different to what you are looking for, and ours was basically a mish mash of a few different plans to make it how we wanted it. But we kept the main bedroom at the short side of the L, and the kids rooms at the end of the long side of the L to keep them as far away from us as possible lol, we can actually shut the kids in the area with thier playroom so they can play happily without being too noisy for us (I am a shiftworker and getting sleep during the day during the school holidays was a big consideration). We also went for high ceilings and now we have seen them other than feeling short we are glad we did it as it makes things look roomier. We also put the kitchen in the area on the long bit of the L by the alfresco area so we can cook either inside or outside and pass things through the window to/from the kitchen. Just some ideas and why we did things we did to maybe help a bit with your plans. But my suggestion to you is to go to one of the display home villages, and spend a day going through the houses and decide what you like and don't like of all the houses and work your plan around that seeming you have family building for you rather than a volume builder where you can't make it how you like it. If I was to win Lotto, I would build with a different builder, now to win lotto Re: House plans to suit acerage 10Mar 24, 2010 7:43 pm What type of homes do you like? Also where are you building? I really like the Denver by M3tr1con it suit an acerage maybe not entirly suiting your block but it will give you some ideas as to what is out there http://tinyurl.com/ygfpgzw have to use the tiny URL cannot link directly to the Big M Site Re: House plans to suit acerage 11Mar 25, 2010 7:02 am we have a "biolytix" HSTP and it is fantastic - it is worm based and you can even put kitchen scraps down the sink. it is sub-surface irrigation so no yuck smells (our neighbours HSTP's are based on chlorine/chemicals and it STINKS if the wind is blowing the wrong way while it irrigates - they also have to worry about surface runoff etc). also the box and tank etc are very compact and not as unsightly as others and there is no wastage of water due to surface evaporation. we chose this system as we wanted to do our bit for the environment and use something that was going to help to feed out garden as it is all irrigated and pipes are laid out underneath we do not have to move the hose around. some people have different opinions on what is the best but after 12 months of lived experience with this system I would never have another kind - our garden that we have planted on top of the irrigation is thriving and lush and the maintenance of the system is not much at all in comparision to other HSTP's. It did cost a couple of thousand more, but in my opinion it is worth every cent to have a system that has no impact on the environment and does not use chemicals to break down waste. I am happy to answer any questions etc about acerage building Kylie handover happened 15/6/09...love living on an acre but still so much to do! having built on acres several times i suggest that you also need to add the cost of a sewerage system and any associated fencing, water tanks with associated extra… 2 1451 Really tight at the top of the stairs- how to get furniture into those rooms? Study books - does anyone really use them these days? Large storage closet would be more functional. 2 6968 Ask the council if there is a chance of getting build over easement exemption. Sometimes easements are unused and 24cm is not all that much. Good luck. And yes any builder… 2 14174 |