Just about to build one or two Blaster. Will probably do a thread on the progress once I get it through council early next year. Sourcing the kit from Valley Kit Homes on the Gold Coast. Will be clad with hardiplank and roofed with colourbond with a nice big deck on the back so will just look like a small conventional house. Expect no lesser valuation than a conventional home. The 2 x approx 110 sqm 2br 1bath 1 gar homes will sell for at least 350k ea once strata titled. Budgeting around 100k ea to build.
Great stuff , thanks rockstar.
I hear you and I've seen some designs or completed houses where they've gone to that extra trouble in nice decking or say thicker feature uprights or doors and windows or something , you really could not tell the difference they've come up great.
Thats the sort of thing I've had in mind whereby I can save for better margins on the house itself but spend a few bucks adding other extras and features, landscaping , offsetting the lighter look some of them have.
Expecting no lesser valuation , great stuff .
I'm looking at this house and thinking gee's , I love the cedar look but buger me it was just carefully painted hardie planking , I actually had to run a hand along it before I could tell for sure , looked great. I haven't seen these exact boards before .
Alternate Dwellings have got one, 'Old Mill' , kit's 43K . It's come up here before actually but that's a great looking house and would really suit the outlook around the block I'm doing , you can't tell the difference.
Kit doesn't include big stuff though like plumbing,h/w, wiring , kitch/bath or floor coverings , then you have to get the thing put up. It's 2 story and not really a simple enough design so a bit much for owner/put up , this one anyway.
So where I'd be at after all the extras I have to work out but I might do the same and post when I have.
I saw a brand new one in the trading post one wk , not even unpacked , 19sq , 20 k for a quick sale , missed out damn it.
Then there's the shift houses . not sure about ones I've seen though. Hell of a lot of work getting some of them up to looking v/n but I do know of one a guy has just finished , came up great. He added the extra trouble though in taking allot of care with finish, landscaping , a nice shed .
Reckons he got the block 6 yrs ago for 28 , just before prices took off and just held it for a few yrs . Then started searching for the right looking and deal shift house.
All up his spent 110 with land. It's up for 225 now , looks a treat I think he'll get it.
Cheers