"Architect-designed houses are not accessible to all." This is a myth championed by the building industry. Alternatively, why not focus on the key benefits architects bring to a project. Here are a few for you: • Appoint an architect to your project and you’ll gain a home designed for the way you want to live.The alternative is a builder-designed home that suits what the builder is used to building. Quality builders will ask for plans and specifications to be thoroughly documented so that they can go ahead and do what they do best, which is build. Working out with the owner what you’re going to build and why is the architect’s role. • An architect manages planning approvals. This process is complex, often arbitrarily applied by many Councils, fraught with pitfalls for the novice and is ramped up every year with new hoops to jump. If you want a professional on your side who knows the territory, will go in to bat for you and will forge a way through this minefield, you need an architect. • If you’d prefer to put the works to tender to a number of builders rather than having to accept the quote of the builder you started the process with, you need an architect. • If you’d prefer to protect yourself with a proper, architect-managed ABIC contract that works equally for both parties and is legally enforceable, you need an architect. • An architect will minimise costly changes during construction as he or she will produce a proper level of drawings (expect 20 x A3 pages for a new home, rather than the 1-2 pages you’ll receive from a drafting service.). The reasons for this are that you have on paper exactly what you want to build. Without this, you are entering a contract with a builder with none of the details resolved. You wouldn’t do that if you were buying a house, so why do it when spending an equally significant amount of money? Unfortunately, some builders see this approach as an opportunity to happily accept constant changes from ‘project managing’ owners because it’s just another variation that he can charge for. The longer he is there, the better for his margins, particularly when there’s no contract to speak of. Finally, an architect is a specialist with a professional duty of care, irrespective of financial gain. In other words, they’re there to support and protect you, without benefit to themselves. No one else in the building industry can provide this.

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Recliners certainly are great for putting feet up, but will limit where and how you place coffee table. We use ottomans instead as we can move them out of the way when not using, or up against a wall where they provide extra seating if needed. An ottomon with a tray on top can also serve as a coffee/side table. A comfortable sofa with a recliner or two is another option, but you don't want to overcrowd the room. Or one recliner and that funky chair you mentioned! Would need to consider the style of each piece to achieve cohesiveness in the room. Be sure to measure your room carefully, and the considered furniture to ensure the pieces will fit easily.

you could look at staining this one>? Bamboo Woven Ply - Bamboo Australia | Sunshine Coast or may I suggest a good detail joiner could make it to your custom panel sizing and finish it suitably for the kitchen splashbacks (if that is what it is for>?) I can suggest someone who would be able to custom make this if you wish.