The House

After a few weeks of visiting display homes we've fallen in love with The Luxor built by Simonds. 

We met with our sales Rep a few times we've decided to build with them..They've given us a good deal on discounting the house, fix site costs and included a promo pack which allows us to choose $30,000 worth of add-ons/upgrades for $10,000. We're stoked to have found a house which ticks all the boxes and is within our budget :-)



Here's the plan, however we've added an extra alfresco and extra lounge to be slotted between the garage/kitchen + master bed/2nd bed. 


The house will fit snugly on the block giving around 2 meters on one side (at the houses widest point).


Our block of land faces east, which was really important to me as we'd like to gain some passive solar design without having to spend too much dosh on upgrades.  So as a result we've flipped the house over but kept the garage and main bed in the same position, the added alfresco will face north and we're hoping to reduce the sizes of the west facing windows in bedrooms 3 and 4. 

We've also flipped the laundry and WC (so the WC and bathroom are next door to each other) and we've included an upgrade en suite (basically gives us a bigger shower and an enclosed toilet. 



From the living room, we will have a good length of 9 meters to the back fence and around 3 meters from bedrooms 3 and 4 (big enough size for a dog!) We've got some big plans for the backyard! We can't wait for the house to get built and we're in!

For the facade, we've chosen the Kew. 
We've got some great ideas on jazzing it up (helps having a partner in the trade business!!) 
For now, we'll need to decide on the bricks!