Sunday 31 May 2015

Project or Custom ?

There are a large number of builders who were willing and able to build us a house on our land in Keysborough. The problem then, was to narrow down this large field of candidates to a manageable shortlist. The first step in this process was to decide whether to use an off-the-shelf house design or create your own design.




The additional cost of building a custom designed house, all else being equal, is around 30%. This additional impost provided us strong encouragement to focus on the off-the-shelf option first. We also learned early on the project builders seemed quite amenable to adjusting their house designs to meet the clients. Although for some reason removal of the garage step-down proved a problem for some.

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