Our Third Builder

A lot has happened since settling our land. While we await a second valuation based on an initial 'ridiculous' valuation, we are looking at building the Liberty 38 from Metricon.

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The difference to how our house will look to the picture above is that instead of the garage door entry seen here, the garage entrance is to the side. That is, from Stream Place.

A window similar to the window on the left (the Guest Bedroom/Bedroom 5) will be installed to ensure this side is still 'interesting' according to the Design Guidelines when building at The Ponds.

The problem we have is whether we can comply with the RTA requirements of building a driveway within the required distance (at least 6m) from the corner when there is both a street tree and road tree bay in the way.

Hopefully, we will know in a week when the contour plans are drawn during the tender process. If we don't overcome this hurdle, we will build the Jandson Home mentioned earlier in this blog.

The MAIN attraction of the Metricon home is that it complements our land very well. It makes great use of the shape of our land for the outdoor/indoor flow enabling us to have a sizeable front yard acting as our backyard enclosed in the privacy of the surrounding 1.8m high fence.

Enjoy the slideshow and feel free to comment.