My Porter Davis Build Blog

This is our customised floorplan... Ground Floor: Some of the major changes are marked up in the picture... Added a door to close off the study for some privacy Added walls to close off the Dining. With the enclosed rear option, a lot of people complained about that plumbing stack in the middle of nowhere so we've put in a wall with a big void in the middle to section it off a bit better Added shower to the powder room. This is in case anyone is sleeping staying downstairs or can't walk upstairs for any reason, they can use the shower downstairs.  Added manhole to the garage. Easier for tradies to get up there and do stuff. No idea what yet though. lol Garage is now 6m wide instead of the standard 5.5m The internal access door in the garage has been widened to 920mm (to fit all the shopping bags through). All the door ways and bulkheads have been made higher to 2340mm, except for the theartre bulkheads. Apparently they need them lower to fit in the plumbing...

We started looking at home designs a couple of years ago, on and off. Given our budget, we were pretty much constrained to the volume builders to get the most bang for buck in terms of price per sqm. The house we like the most was the Monarch 58. Base price was around $500k. A bit pricey so we probably would have settled for the 52sq version. We liked the grand feel, the open space, and the Asian friendly / Feng Shui conscious stair orientation. (ie. not directly facing the front entrance. I have no idea why so many volume builders do not design with Feng Shui in mind. the facade the floorplan The thing with Metricon, though was all the negative reviews they have on the internet. I am told that all volume builders are the same as they just outsource their trade work and it is just pot luck with which tradies you get and how good your site supervisor is. Ultimately, the one thing that I could not bring myself to committing with Metricon was the face that they do not ...