Building a new home
cdepaolo
8 years ago
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Comments (2)Margaret you have not saved any kitchen photos into your ideas book. Look up photos here on houzz and save them so we can see them and get to know your style. I have 10 idea books but many houzzers have many more. As for matching the laundry kitchen and ensuites to match- no you do not have to have all rooms looking the same....See MoreI plan to build a new house.
Comments (4)Your designer should have completed exterior elevations and nominated the exterior materials. Are you looking for assistance with external colour selections, or are you unhappy with your designer's exterior elevation design? Just be aware that not all external materials (such as particular bricks, or stone finishes) can be cost effectively delivered to all parts of Australia. When I am assisting clients I always make sure I know what is available through the local suppliers....See MoreBuilding a new House
Comments (1)Have you checked out the products section on Houzz?...See MoreBuilding a new home is hell
Comments (5)Sorry to hear about your experience so far. Yes heritage and all the other policies can be tricky and frustrating to deal with. There is however an art to achieving simultaneously aesthetically appealing and sustainable architecture that deftly negotiates planning and building regs. It's actually our bread & butter, and fortunately we see the challenge involved as design opportunity, rather than looking at it as a negative. Flip your thinking and great things can happen. More often than not the constraints push us to design better and go deeper to find alternative ways to achieve a certain design outcomes with different methods within different conditions - typically when we do this we find better and more interesting results are achieved, which would never have been discovered if it weren't for the existence of the design challenges involved. So whilst understand your excitement may have been crushed here, try not to let it overcome the positives as there is clear merit in pursuing the sustainable endeavour. Good things rarely come easy! Hopefully the construction stage is smoother sailing for you as this should be more familiar territory for you. All the best with it! PD :) www.pauldistefanodesign.com...See Morecdepaolo
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