AMC Spec Home 2
Our second Strathalbyn spec home project, Hampden Way was designed to be a practical and stylish new home for a young family. We design and build spec homes to the same standards we would expect in our own home, and this is evident in every detail of the Hampden Way house.
The carefully-considered layout, which includes lifestyle extras such as alfresco entertaining and a study nook, are showcased beautifully with a range of contemporary luxe elements such as black tapware and marble feature tiles to the kitchen splashback and bathroom floors.
Fabulous pillars constructed from locally-sourced limestone frame the entry and give the home a unique character. The eventual owners of this house built a letterbox from the same stone, which was a beautiful finishing touch.
![Why I NEVER answer this question.
Well not entirely. I do answer it - but not with the response that people are hoping for. And the reason for this, is that I'm actually protecting the person who asks the question.
So what is this question? It usually goes like this: 'roughly how much per square metre is it for one of your homes?'
Now this is a completely legitimate/reasonable/worthwhile question to be asking a potential builder - but I'll give you a little insight into why I won't simply answer this question.
Because if I pull an 'average' figure out of my head for one of our builds [and by average I mean a figure that sits right in the middle of our most expensive and least expensive homes] - without having an intimate knowledge of:
🏡 the site [access, contours, CFS requirements etc]
🏡 the style of home [single or double storey, split level, lots of windows, raked ceilings, high ceilings etc]
🏡 the level of interior fit out [amount of joinery, type of flooring, tiling heights, type of plumbing fixtures etc]
Then the figure I give to the person asking this question is actually completely irrelevant.
Any one of the above factors could shoot the overall price up or down quite significantly.
And I also know that if I say 'a figure' that in someone's mind this will become 'the figure' - and there's nothing worse than going into the design and build process with unrealistic expectations.
So my tip: be really honest with your potential builder about your likely budget and see if they consider that to be a budget they can work with. At AMC - we ALWAYS design and build to a budget that's been discussed from the first time we meet with our new client/s.
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