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.
‘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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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