biggy

fab hoose

JaneandJim

Thank you. Just got the garden to do now, its going to take a while, for Jim that is, I do nowt, except supervise.

Found some more pics. The first one (I hope) is the block before we started. Actually, its before the bulldozer came in and cleared. Jim had chopped all the trees down and they were regrowing!

Wendy

I think your whole house is just gorgeous. I'm very jealous

geordie mandy

All houses are so fab I'm jealous can't wait till we are in that position.Mandy

DunRoaminTheUK

All I can think of when I look at where your house is located is "SNAKE!!!"...

Do you encounter a lot of the wildlife where you are?

hedgehog

Why are you selling this lovely house, are you becoming a build a holic LOL,

hedgehog

Your kitchen is fabulous

Tweenies

Exactly what i was about to say !!

Dorothy

Wondering if anyone has used Content Living or Dale Alcock in WA? We found a couple of houses we really love and wnat to know whether or not we should go with these builders. Thanks in advance.

Wol

Quite a spread!

It appears from the photo that you are using timber framing and steel roofwork: is this right? We are still umming and ahing over steel v timber for the studding and using timber up top!

They all say around here that steel makes a lot of expansion noise - but we had it as framing in Florida with a wooden roof structure and certainly din't have that. When we say it, they all tell us that they "can't do" steel unless it's all the house! Uphill struggle.......

JaneandJim

Yep, its all wood and colourbond steel roofing. The roof trusses are wood, though. The stumps are steel but the verandah posts are timber. Termite heaven! The roof does creak a bit as it warms up but it's no worse than the noise a "normal" house makes when it settles down at night-time. We have a loft space so its not too bad when it rains either.

We used Garth Chapman's Traditional Queenslanders. Apparantly they build in NSW now. http://www.traditionalqueenslanders.com.au/

Jane

JaneandJim

We haven't seen a snake here yet but our neighbour had a small tree snake in his house the other day. Snakes don't worry me too much, it's spiders I don't like but we've only had a couple of Johnny spinners in the house. (One lives under the sofa) We have tree frogs living in the plants on the verandah. We have a giant goanna who wanders about occasionally and we have a wedge-tailed eagle patrolling overhead sometimes. We have lots and lots of lovely birds, wrens, finches, cockies, king parrots, galahs, rosellas, lorikeets, kingfishers, bee-eaters, you name it!

Jane

Paul & Wendy

We are buiding in Adelaide with Oakford Homes - the only problem is that we will be based in Scotland until Christmas when the house should be finished.
Posted the signed plans back to the builder today with 4 pages of alterations etc.
Simple things that we also noticed such as the doors all being hung the wrong way - this seems to be an Australian thing. Also, they split the bathroom into 3 seperate rooms, ie toilet, bath/shower area and washbasin area. We have asked that the walls are removed to create a single larger room. We are also not too happy about the basic style of kitchens etc and the upgrades are very expensive compared to the UK. We are still considering shipping a new flat pack kitchen, freezer, dish washer etc with us and fitting them ourselves.
Otherwise, the choice of materials such as bricks, roofing, etc is far better than in the UK.
We are hoping that friends in Adelaide will post pictures of the build once it starts and will then share them with you all.
Regards, Paul

Mark & Ali

Anyone else looking to build their own home?

I'm particularly interested in doing this when I get to Oz so thought I would give the thread a 'bump'.

Ali X

toon williams

thought exactly the same!!