Boutique customers Andrew and Katrina wanted to live in the Newport/Williamstown area with daughters Eliza, 5, and Clara, 3, but kept missing out at auction. So they decided to get creative.

‘We decided to look at a house that wasn’t great but was cheaper than others we had been bidding on,’ Andrew says. After working with Boutique to choose a design that fitted into the narrow but well-located lot, Andrew and Katrina won the auction and then used Boutique’s Knockdown Rebuild service to create their perfect bayside home.

Knockdown Rebuild Andrew & Katrina

‘We had plenty of communication with our New Homes Consultant in the week leading up to the auction to confirm that the design could be built on the land.’ While they’d liked several of Boutique’s ‘balanced, contemporary’ designs, they finally chose the Airlie 33 with a Hampton’s façade – ‘a no-brainer for the Newport area.’

They filled it with deluxe options – ‘what didn’t we upgrade?’ – from extra ceiling height to solid wood doors and double-glazed windows. They added air-conditioning, bedroom ceiling fans, an extra downstairs guest suite and a butler’s pantry. Katrina and Andrew also enlisted the help of an interior designer to help create ‘understated luxury, but with a warm and welcoming feel.’ The interior designer ‘was really helpful in laying the foundations for good decisions,’ Andrew says, ‘which made it significantly less stressful to know that someone else was looking out for us.’

Andrew’s favourite spot in the new home? ‘Gotta be right in front of the fire in the living room. It could also be standing in front of the four-metre-long, double-glazed kitchen splashback.’ His advice on the knockdown-rebuild process? ‘Never stop asking questions!’ particularly if you’ve never built and ‘even more so if you have to knockdown a house before you build a new one.’

Considering a Knockdown rebuild project? New Homes Conusltant David Kelada tells us what some of the benefits are:

  1. Many people love their suburb and community but may have outgrown or need to downsize their current property. A Knockdown Rebuild project allows you to build your dream home without changing your address.
  1. Architecture and design have greatly evolved in recent years. A Knockdown project allows you to choose a floorplan that fits a modern lifestyle. Open-plan living, a butler’s pantry and retreat spaces are major considerations in new home designs, quite different from the floorplans of the past few decades.
  1. A Knockdown project can prove more financially viable than purchasing a modern established home or even renovating which can often see costs blow out. With a Knockdown Rebuild, you know your build costs upfront.

Read on to discover even more reasons why you should consider a knockdown rebuild.

 

 

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Testimonials

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Josh A

Excellent customer service from Boutique Homes in Ballarat

My wife and I have just signed up to build with Boutique Homes in Ballarat. So far we have been very impressed with the responsiveness, professionalism and flexibility. To be honest, I was a bit sceptical about such things with volume builders, but to date, Boutique have proved me wrong. A huge shout out to James Belsar, the Ballarat New Homes Consultant—an all round lovely bloke that has made the process stress free.

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Gurpartap

“The One” builder with great team and professional attitude

Thoughts of constructing first dream home fills once heart with joy, excitement and on the other sends a chill down the spin with anxious thoughts and million questions. You juggle from one floor plan to the other, visit hundreds of display home, chat with enormous builder's representative, go through an exhaustive list of inclusions which makes you even more confused and exposed.

But, after discovering and exploring Boutique homes it seemed like a cake walk. We are at an early stages of building HAVANA 32 (on display@Botanica in MICKLEHAM). All thanks to our new homes consultant Surinder Mehta, that we have got what we wished for to build our first home. Surinder, made the initial phase very easy, he gave our needs the ears we wanted, explained things to the very basics which in-turn makes you confident and affirmative. Surinder, is an expert in the field, he answers all your queries very patiently, addresses your needs rather then wants and makes you feel that you are with the right builder and in right hands.

Boutique Homes is a quality driven builder which gives you the satisfaction you need when building "The First One" and the same culture filters through the employee's especially Mr. Surinder Mehta, who did not leave any stone un-turned to win our confidence and support by delivering incomparable upgrades while adhering to our financial boundaries.

We are self-assured that the building process will be a smooth one and would take this opportunity to urge all FHOB to give Boutique Home a go and they will be able to cater your needs with highest quality standards compared to the counterparts.

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Donjim

Amazing service, great inclusions

Brett in Fyansford was helpful from the very beginning and has made the process of our first home so easy. The inclusions that Boutique has as standard far surpass any other ‘volume’ builder. The process of choosing any upgrades was explained to us carefully and the whole process felt stress free. Couldn’t be happier with Boutique Homes.

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Jot

Glad We have chosen Boutique Homes

Building home as a first home owner is like a dream. We visited all display homes, looked at inclusions, quality of products that are being used. But we could not find a match for Boutique. It excelled on our graph of customer satisfaction, tailoring according to our needs. Special thanks to Morgan (new home consultant), who is the first among all the reasons behind us choosing Boutique. We started with some other plan and ended with something completely different. But Morgan listened to us, to our dreams. No doubt there are many other competing builders, we visited the majority of them. But Boutique was the one for us. Luckily we found the one.

I must say after meeting other sales consultants from 2 other renowned builders at the moment in the market that Boutique is lucky to have a consultant like Morgan. She went far and beyond to assist us. I got health professional discount on our base price which gave us room for more upgrades while sticking to our budget. Our meeting was extended for long due to changes to our plan. But Morgan helped us to get everything fixed and upfront with 100% transparency, no hidden costs.

We are super excited for next steps. Initial paperwork done. Looking forward to our color appointments. I would highly recommend first home builders and owners to visit and browse their display homes and you will see the great difference in quality of things they use in their standard inclusion compared to others.

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Aurelie

Exceptional Service!

We are very happy we chose Boutique Homes. Our New Home consultants Brett Morrissy and Cass did an exceptional job at helping us finding the right house for us. Brett immediately understood what we were looking for and he was very helpful. He was very professional, approachable and available, he definitely made the entire pre-start process much easier for us. We highly recommend working with him!

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