What about a building designer? Cost wise will be in between a draftsman and an architect.

Our friend owns a frame and truss company in Sydney, they are advising 8-12 weeks.
No point changing to steel as apparently there is a delay with steel too.

Definitely. Only people that would say that it’s not required are those trying to save money

Kumz, you could also look at Manago tiles in McGraths Hill. We bought all our tiles there supply and laid. We got a pretty good price and they had a…

We looked at it, it was an additional 10-12k

This is our basic outline, you can see to the right where it sticks out.

We built in Hills council last year, although we have small acreage, we were allowed 50% of the width, our frontage was 63m, so its 31.5m at the building line,…

Swap the kitchen and games, then have the laundry off the butlers, much better access etc

We looked at GJ Gardner Dural, when we built our recent home. I found the upgrade costs to be very expensive and at the end of the day was paying…

Sorry Venkata, but your budget is unrealistic for a custom build that is also energy efficient. Stick with a project home, try and get a block that has good orientation…

My biggest pet hate is sliding external doors in laundries, you have a lot of wasted space in the laundry. Put a normal opening glass door, then you can run…

Weve also done engineered oak flooring, weve been in for 4 months and there isn’t a scratch (adult kids no pets), easy to clean, love it! We have noted it…

Probably $2500/sqm..

In our council they aren’t allowed too. Land must be fully registered, assume different rules for different councils.

You’ve posted the same plan twice...

Newhousebuilder, if you’re going to drive by Tuckwell road, have a look on Darcy road (the corner of Darcy and crane-we used to live off Darcy road), there is quite…

Your builder is not paying the trades enough. I’m sure there are roofers about, you just have to pay market rates...

Yep get your own, we did and then gave it to builders when looking at our options. A much cheaper alternative. Whether or not the builders you have listed will…

Mindoro, how much is to much? How big a roof?

Thanks Stewie, I’m also not a white hamptons type of gal. Our facade is more mid century modern, we are on acreage in Sydney’s north west, i wanted warm, easy…

The paneling was custom made by our cabinet maker 😊

Hey gogo65, thanks a lot for your reply and the photo. Yes, that's the…

We did dulux domino a very dark grey with notaio walnut to break it up a little. We are very happy with the colour

Our house is different, has some beautiful features, a different facade (for an acreage home), has been designed to take advantage of the northerly aspect and contours but isn’t over…

Just to put it in perspective, I’m also a health professional and also not very creative.
Maybe due to my age and this being our 5th house and 4th build, I…

Where are you building?

The problem not owning your own plan, is you put blood sweat and tears into it, to make it yours, then you cant take it anywhere else for a quote.
If…

The biggest piece of advice i can give you is make sure you ‘own the plans’, soil and contour survey.
We have just built a custom home, we first approached a…

I’d cut 500mm out of the front of the theatre, to allow the small extension to side of laundry and pantry, it would also allow for a little set back…

Great plan,
Your laundry space is large but the space isn’t very functional, could you extend the laundry/pantry in line with the small garage extension and then that would allow a…