Last weekend, Carla and I decided to check out what would it be like to build a house here in Sydney. We were primarily interested in the available floor plans and styles.
We rented a car and then drove an hour out of the city to Homeworld (www.homeworld.com.au). This place was amazing. It was setup as a small neighbourhood with 120 different types of houses from 35 different builders. They had bungalows, two storey houses, duplexes, and mansions. It was really convenient to have it all in one place and to be able to quickly compare different builders.
We found three different builders that we liked. Open layout style appealed to us, as we really liked that type of setup from our time house sitting our friend's place. In an open layout, the kitchen flows into the dining room, which flows into the loving room, with no walls dividing the separate areas.
Another interesting feature of these new homes was the alfresco area. I had to see it to understand what 'alfresco area' really meant, but I will try my best to explain it here. Alfresco area is an outdoor patio which is (usually) integrated into the house and thus protected from the rain. Often, the alfresco area is actually one of the outer rooms on the ground floor, but the exterior walls are on the inside. You would most commonly use the alfresco area for outdoor dining, relaxing, lounging or anything else you like to do when the temperature is nice outdoors.
All in all, we were able to find builders that could build something that we would like. The next problem we need to solve is to figure out how to fund a purchase of this new home. Maybe I should put a PayPal Donate button on my web site. :-)
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