Biddy

Please Please Please keep this thread going.

One of my dreams is to build my own house. I can picture it in my minds eye - even the view!

Grand designs is fantastic - compulsive viewing.

I can't bear to open some of the links on this thread at the moment until we've exchanged contracts and I KNOW IT'S HAPPENNING.

Then I plan to get very drunk, give up smoking and see if I can find that tiger - oops wrong thread!

Panda_Pops

OK,

Here's some more links -

http://www.tvshowhomes.co.nz/

http://www.eehnz.com/

http://www.buildingacustomhome.com/index2.html

http://www.housing.net.nz/profile.htm

http://www.hebelwaikato.co.nz/index.htm

http://www.countrylifestylehomes.co.nz/index.html

http://www.2build.co.nz/index.htm

http://www.adobesouth.co.nz/index.htm

http://www.1website.co.nz/books/moreinfo/0028643119.htm

http://www.completehome.co.nz/

Right, that's all I can find for now

Better get back to work I suppose

PP
x

Biddy

Aaaaaahhhhhrrrrrgggghhhh


Torture!!!!!

Panda_Pops

Sorry Biddy, but they just keep on coming

http://www.davidreidhomes.co.nz/NZ/home.htm

http://www.buildonline.co.nz/buildon...13/bohome.html

http://www.nzbuilders.com/

Biddy

Now it's like being in a curry house looking at the menu and not knowing where to start! Too much choice.

What we need is
1) Very expensive but fantastic
2) Affordable and good quality
3) Cheap as chips

bookemjano

4) and somebody to put it together for us, my husband's DIY skills begin and end with No Nails Glue.

Pinkie Pie

You little beauty PP...keep 'em coming...work won't mind I'm sure...

I like the look of this one http://www.countrylifestylehomes.co.nz/greenmount.html

not bad for $140000 fully built and all in....

nivlem

You read my mind!

Pinkie Pie

Great minds think alike Cathy.... does look a corker though doesn't it...I'm just busy converting the room sizes to 'old money' to get a proper idea of the sizes...metric means nowt to me...god, I'm so old....

Dizibella

So it's just occurred to me, where are we going to put all these lovely houses? I've set my heart on a couple of Lockwood Pahia's, one for us and one for the kids.... now all I need is a nice lifestyle section up the coast and hey presto....

Check out this one:

http://www.coastalrealestate.co.nz/R...rtyID=&Search=

Oops, sorry ... that's a long address but the section is soooo lovely?!

Biddy

Here's some more - sorry if there are any duplicates.
http://www.valueplushomes.co.nz/
http://www.tristyle.co.nz/
http://www.havennz.co.nz/showhomes_feat.htm
http://www.intalok.co.nz/
http://www.signaturehomes.co.nz/
http://www.stonewoodhomes.co.nz/
http://www.housing.net.nz/chooser.htm
http://www.initialhomes.co.nz/
http://www.westwoodhomes.co.nz/

Should keep you going awhile!!

planty

Just found this one, looks like it could be quite useful.

http://www.gib.co.nz/

isv

Great thread - we're hoping to self-build when we get to Christchurch in December.

We've started looking at sections... but have also considered buying a cheaper/smaller house with plenty of land and then moving the original house to a corner of the plot whilst we build our dream place on the original site. That way we would end up with two houses on a single section with the original home becoming somewhere we put visitors...

Has anyone else looked in to this? A number of people have commented that it might end up cheaper than buying an empty section as you would benefit from services/driveways etc. all being in place ready to go.

Alan.

bookemjano

Sounds a brilliant idea, please make sure you keep us up to date, as we will be buying/building from next March.

uk+kiwi

Alan,

I have looked into this, since it seems to be the same price to buy a bare section on which to build, or a house that could be moved/renovated/extended.

Quite bizarre, but I have put the 'seems' in italics, since without being in New Zealand and seeing the comparisons myself, I am unsure as to whether this really is the case, or if the old 'location' thing is really coming into play. Looking at newly built houses available for sale seems to support the former since there is no way we could build a house on a section in the same area for the price of the new house for sale . Admittedly we may end up with a larger garden I suppose, but given my personal experience of the property market over the last 10 years, I do strongly consider the 'investment/asset' side as well as the fact that a house would be our home. Personally, I could make a home in most houses and do not get emotionally tied to a house, hence this view. I know others are not like this. It may be because I have never lived in the same house for more than 3 years throughout my whole life.

Anyhow, I'm drifting. Good luck and keep us posted. We will be investigating the options in December whilst down under, or up North depending on how you look at it?