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Builder and House Design selection

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 ...