The Eliminations

As stated in an earlier post, there is a distinct cost advantage in going with a project builder. Another benefit to using a project builder is that the house design work has been done for you. All you need to do is select from their plans and tweak as necessary. However there are still quite a few project builders to choose from in Melbourne. So using their websites as the primary tool we went through a process of elimination. We found in general that the larger project builders were either Inflexible (Wouldn’t remove Garage Step-down), Pricey or surprisingly didn’t have much of a small house range. Although Carlisle have addressed the latter earlier this year with the launch of their Easy Living range, there appear to be some strings attached.

We finally narrowed it down to a short list of two of the smaller project builders - Orbit Homes and Fairhaven Homes.