PreStart (a few days late)

Have you ever watched Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory? (Early version with Gene Wilder).Well if you have ( and surely you can’t not have..)you may remember some scenes in the film of Grandpa Joe and all the other Grandmas and the other Grandpa tucked up in bed together. Well that was us at the [...]

House Design Priorities- My Top Five

 
We are just about to pay out our first big wad of cash. This is mainly for the drawings needed to go to council for approval. We have worked with the designer for several months fine-tuning our house design and the time has come when we have given the thumbs-up and we’re on to STEP [...]

Draw a Floor Plan

Shopping for a house off the menu offers some variation, but in general if you are serious about living there once its built, it’s not always possible to find what you want, and most “off the menu” building companies don’t like major changes to their stock designs.
Whatever end of the spectrum: standard ‘menu’ house or [...]

Thinking about your House Design

Most of you reading this probably have designs coming out of your ears…When we were renovating we started a file with magazine cut-outs.  It was nice to thumb through to gain inspiration   and it included technical aspects such as pics and info about hot water systems, dishwashers etc.
When you are building I think you suddenly [...]

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