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Cream, pearl, ivory, chiffon, porcelain, eggshell, frost – choosing the perfect white for your walls can be one of the hardest design decisions when building your home. You may want to dive head-first into choosing your colour, but there are several important factors that must be considered. Here are some useful tips to help you…

A good wardrobe can be life altering. We recognise that this might sound a bit dramatic, but hear us out. Are you familiar with the heart wrenching feeling of trying to pull something out of your wardrobe, only for half your clothes to come out with it in a tangled mess and end up on…

Building a new home can be overwhelming, even if you’ve been through the process before. There are so many decisions to make along the way, from big things like where to position the master bedroom, to smaller things such as choosing paint colours and door handles. While it’s certainly the less exciting aspect to building…

How we style our homes has had a big shift since early 2020 when Covid took its grip on the world. We were forced into isolation. We started to spend more time within what would soon become a safe haven, where we retreated from the stressors that came with being in the public and exposure…

The sun is shining the birds are singing – it’s time to open your windows and let in some fresh air in. Now while spring cleaning can be a little daunting at first, you feel 100% better when you’re done, but where to start? This year we’ve put together a list of a few things…

For starters, let’s get a bit of background information about Nik. Nik has been passionate about cars for as long as he can remember. This passion led him to a career as an apprentice mechanic before his experience in building his own home inspired an industry change. Nik decided to embark on a new career,…

Below are some hot tips that Nik has recommends looking into and having a chat about when you do pre-start. They are just little tweaks and for the most part very inexpensive if not free, however, they make a huge difference down the track. Lighting & Power Points If you are looking at replacing your…

So you’ve done all the paperwork, your finance has been approved, you’ve settled and you’re heading to site. What happens next you might ask? Let’s have a look; Earth Works This is where it all begins! An earth worker will come to prepare and compact the block for your home’s new foundation. Sometimes blocks are…

After meeting with Nik and deciding on a floor plan and block of land to build on, you might ask, what happens now? Let’s take a look. After you have signed your sketch and quote the builders administration team will work on applying for your building permits, finalise your working drawings (floorplans) and ensure all…

Want to build a new home but don’t know where to start? If you’re anything like me when I went to buy my first house, I wasn’t sure that any bank would even sit down and go through options with me; let alone actually give me a loan for the next 30 years. I had…