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How To Define Your Dream Home
How To Define Your Dream Home As you map out the perfect plan for your dream home, it’s worth considering how a design and construct builder can help you achieve your bespoke needs and lifestyle under one roof. From concept to completion, your dream build can be...
Is This The Year For Building Your Dream Home?
The past two years have seen unprecedented changes in the Australian home building industry, property market, and our lifestyles in general. As we feel a sense of normalcy beginning to return in 2022, for prospective homebuilders this should be seen as an opportunity...
3 Ways To Communicate With Your Builder
While there are a number of factors that go into producing a high-quality, beautiful custom home, one of the most important aspects is having a frequent, thorough dialogue with your builder. Communication is key to ensuring the home is exactly what you want, and there...
What’s Included In Your Home?
While building a custom home from scratch is an exciting prospect, it can also be a daunting one. Especially when it comes to making decisions about materials, fittings, fixtures and other crucial elements of your new home. If this is your first time building, you may...
What Does Quality Mean to You?
When we ask our clients, “what does quality mean to you?” it’s always interesting to see what their interpretation is. While there are certain attributes and ideas that we associate with ‘quality’, the term is a subjective one, which has different meanings for...
FEATURED STORIES
Before You Sign On The Dotted Line
Here’s how to ensure your builder is the right one for you. So you’ve decided to build your dream home… Now what? What’s the next step? First thing’s first, you’re going to need to find a builder who is fit for making your dream a reality. The hardest part of this...
DESIGN & PLANNING
Knockdown Rebuild vs. Renovation
There comes a time for many homeowners when the house they are in no longer suits their needs. It...
Why it pays to choose a Design & Construct Builder
When embarking on your building journey, it’s common to feel overwhelmed by the unknown...
How To Design Your Home For Entertaining
As the summer evenings roll in, they are accompanied by a new season of cheer and celebration. The...
3 Ways To Communicate With Your Builder
While there are a number of factors that go into producing a high-quality, beautiful custom home,...
What’s Included In Your Home?
While building a custom home from scratch is an exciting prospect, it can also be a daunting one....
TRENDS & INTERIOR
What Style of Home Are You?
Australia’s residential landscape contains a rich mix of different architectural styles that have...
6 Design Trends To Watch Out For In 2020
1. Sustainability Given the global focus on climate change, sustainability remains the number one...
Five Bathroom Trends to Look Out for in 2019
The humble bathroom is experiencing a renaissance in 2019, with homeowners, architects, builders...
How to integrate Timber into your Home?
A combination of colours, finishes, sizes and patterns are essential when selecting the right look...
COLOUR TRENDS | Everything that’s old is new
The choice of colour sets the mood and style for your home, so it’s imperative you get it right....
TECHNICAL
The Real Estate Market and the Pandemic
The Real Estate Market and the Pandemic a Q&A with Zali Reynolds During this time of great...
Building an Industry that Supports Women
by Anthea Ramsay Recently I had the pleasure of attending the Housing Industry Association (HIA)...
5 Ways Technology Is Making Home Building Easier
Technology has impacted every part of modern-day life. From mobile technology to improvements in...
What’s the Difference Between Waffle and Raft Slabs?
Depending on your property’s conditions, both waffle and raft slabs can provide a suitable footing...
Why Do I Need Both a Site Survey and a Soil Report?
While building a house may seem simple in theory, there is so much involved, including a thorough...
MAINTENANCE
How To Nurture Your Home
It’s a well-known fact that a happy, healthy home leads to enhanced physical and mental wellbeing,...
Spring Has Sprung – It’s Time to Declutter
Spring is a great time to declutter, reorganise and clean. After being closed up for winter, it’s...
Maintaining Your Home
Congratulations! You've constructed a beautiful home from quality materials with the help of...
Simple maintenance of your home
Even though your home has been built with quality materials and workmanship, your home still...
ARCHIVE
7 Floorplans to Inspire Your New Custom Build
Sometimes it can be daunting wondering where to begin with your building journey. There are many...
Home Inspiration from around the world: Christmas Edition
Home is where the heart is, especially at Christmas. All over the world, families and friends are...
The Warming Months of Winter
Winter in Melbourne is a unique time – with the exception of a weekend football game, we tend to...
Kitchen Trends for 2018
The kitchen is no doubt the hub of the home – it’s where amazing meals are created, stories are...
OUTDOOR TRENDS OF 2018
In the summer months, we love being outdoors, especially when it comes to entertaining. Having a...
