Browse Forums Building A New House Re: What would you decide when building your home 3Apr 17, 2011 11:58 pm The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: What would you decide when building your home 10Apr 18, 2011 12:00 pm I agree.. We are looking at our house being a long term thing so we have sacrificed some things that can be changed/updated (eg Stone benchtops, Splashback) and will not go crazy buying new things, so we could have the larger plan we wanted. It's much harder to change the structure than the cosmetic things! Re: What would you decide when building your home 11Apr 18, 2011 2:41 pm Thanks everyone for your replies, i think i understood everyone's points. We are planning to have kids, and this is probably something that is also in the way. If we had already our kids we would have known that we are ok with 2 bedrooms for example. But now we dont know what future might bring to us! Re: What would you decide when building your home 12Apr 18, 2011 2:44 pm Agree with the above too! This is our second house and hopefully our last! If you look at buying a house in an area that you like why would you want to move? (Although I never moved house as a child so I'm a kind of person who likes to settle down roots and stay in one place!) I found selling our first place that so much money was wasted with advertising and solicitors and agents fees that the few thousand you may save now you will waste in the future when actually buying that home that better suits you! Prices are ALWAYS going to go up... so to get that extra room or couple of squares now may cost a few thousand more it will certainly cost you so much more in the future. We built a 36 square home and there is only the 2 of us and a small dog! And to be perfectly honest with you it will most likely be the same for at least 5 years... and yes we don't use all of the rooms in the house... but in 5 years time when one of us has to be home with the children we will have breathing space with our mortgage as we have had 5 years of a "double income no kids" scenario smashing down at the repayments to build up some equity! We decided to build a bigger house now so the rooms will grow with our family... Hope this helps! Sleven Moved into our Atlantique MkII 36 by Carlisle Homes Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 39714 I thought this would be a popular question but I haven't been able to find any similar posts. Perhaps I'm wording my searches wrong? When you have car insurance and the… 0 6616 Bought in Nov 21 at the height of the market (classic). Good area, atrocious floor plan. BUT has land out to the left-hand side that we can extend out on (see second… 0 8773 |