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We love sharing our industry knowledge. If we can help just one family find their dream home, then we have done our job. Our blog is a space for sharing news, tips, tricks, and other interesting tidbits about your new home build.
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November 21 2022
Stick it to crickets in your home and garden
How to get rid of crickets around your home Cricket may be one of our most loved sports, but crickets are also some of our most hated pests. The sworn enemy of both the keen gardener and the light sleeper, they’re as likely to chew
November 21 2022
The Perfect Shade of White for Your Home
Cream, pearl, ivory, chiffon, porcelain, eggshell, frost – choosing the perfect white for your walls can be one of the hardest design decisions when building your home. You may want to dive head-first into choosing your colour, but there are several important factors that must
October 24 2022
Tips for Planning the Perfect Walk-In Wardrobe
A good wardrobe can be life altering. We recognise that this might sound a bit dramatic, but hear us out. Are you familiar with the heart wrenching feeling of trying to pull something out of your wardrobe, only for half your clothes to come out
October 11 2022
What does a Settlement Agent do and why is it a good idea to engage one when purchasing a property?
Building a new home can be overwhelming, even if you’ve been through the process before. There are so many decisions to make along the way, from big things like where to position the master bedroom, to smaller things such as choosing paint colours and door
September 29 2022
Colour Trends For Your Home
How we style our homes has had a big shift since early 2020 when Covid took its grip on the world. We were forced into isolation. We started to spend more time within what would soon become a safe haven, where we retreated from the
September 19 2022
Spring has Sprung
The sun is shining the birds are singing – it’s time to open your windows and let in some fresh air in. Now while spring cleaning can be a little daunting at first, you feel 100% better when you’re done, but where to start? This
September 05 2022
What does an info session with Nik look like?
For starters, let’s get a bit of background information about Nik. Nik has been passionate about cars for as long as he can remember. This passion led him to a career as an apprentice mechanic before his experience in building his own home inspired an
August 26 2022
Nik’s Hot Tips For Pre-Start
Below are some hot tips that Nik has recommends looking into and having a chat about when you do pre-start. They are just little tweaks and for the most part very inexpensive if not free, however, they make a huge difference down the track. Lighting
August 01 2022
The Building Process – Construction Phase
So you’ve done all the paperwork, your finance has been approved, you’ve settled and you’re heading to site. What happens next you might ask? Let’s have a look; Earth Works This is where it all begins! An earth worker will come to prepare and compact
July 18 2022
The Building Process – Admin Phase
After meeting with Nik and deciding on a floor plan and block of land to build on, you might ask, what happens now? Let’s take a look. After you have signed your sketch and quote the builders administration team will work on applying for your
July 05 2022
Finance Questions
Want to build a new home but don’t know where to start? If you’re anything like me when I went to buy my first house, I wasn’t sure that any bank would even sit down and go through options with me; let alone actually give
June 21 2022
Frequently Asked Questions
While these might not answer all of your questions, below are some answers to the most common question I get asked (or think people should be asking) when they meet with someone to look at planning their building journey. I’m building my first home; how
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