Our home building process has been designed to ensure that your needs are met, from inception and design through to construction and occupation.
We work closely with you to ensure that your new designer home is exactly what you dreamed it would be.
During the initial consultation, we determine the best approach for your needs. This can be a custom home design, or you can select from our extensive range of home designs.
Our main objective is to obtain a comprehensive design brief, including:
If you’re keen to proceed, we then:
We follow this process if you’re providing your own architectural design and drawings given that it covers the onsite investigations, as well as preparation of reports and preliminary tender.
At this stage, we also encourage you to seek financial advice regarding borrowing capacity (if you haven’t already, of course). This is so that we can tailor your desired inclusions and options to meet your budget.
Step 2 involves:
We’ll work through this initial concept design with you before we prepare the tender – this ensures we cover everything on your list, as well as a few other considerations including:
Following tender preparation, we’ll present it to you at our office.
We understand that this is a big decision, whether you’re a first-time or seasoned buyer. The tender is fixed for 14 days, so we encourage you to take it away for review and consideration.
When you’re happy, we then move on to preparing construction drawings.
If you’re providing your own construction drawings, move directly to Step 5. Otherwise, we require at least 3 to 4 weeks for completion.
On completion, with the drawings detailed in accordance with initial design and tender inclusion, we review them with you. Again, we want to be sure all the needs and requirements we both established in the earlier stages of the process have been realised.
Following your sign off the drawings, the drawings are included in the building contract.
After we prepare the Home Building Agreement (Contract), we’ll arrange an appointment with you to sign.
Following the contract signing and payment of 10% deposit (less previously paid deposits), we arrange to submit development approvals, including:
We also coordinate sessions between you and our helpful building partners to finalise internal and external colour selections and other preferences.
When all building approvals have been obtained, and all specifications and selections documented, we determine a start date and prepare a construction file for the build to commence.