You never know when you will need these roof tiles again so keep some.
I have kept left over roof tiles after hand over. We had to replace 3 tiles during…

Hi there ... check out the price list from homeone buddy from Newcastle's built, have price listing on page 7 should give you some ideas on cost of pool and…

I suffer from hay fever all year round worst during Spring.
I grow edible flowers in the backyard and have it in salad so I'm eating pollen hoping to build…

I lived 5 min drive away from construction and drive by every morning to check on any activities during my build
Simply to keep record of whats happening on site.…

I think it's bad Feng Shui to have a bedroom above garage.
By any chance can you flip the first floor plan, upper living room on top of garage.

I will go for more rooms, provided that you are not compromising the size of each bedroom. it's nice to have a larger size bedrooms …

Please give more details of your site location (nsw,vic, sa, qld?) Plants that do well in Qld may not be suited for Vic location.
5m x 25m is very good…

We were too naive.
In our minds we simply thought that every things will be smooth run.
We honestly believed that council will take three months to approved DA, but we…

Do not demo until you have DA or CDC approved.
We did KDR. We had to do our own demo as builder will not organise for us. (most of them…

It's always good to have low maintenance garden. I'm so over high maintenance large lawn. I was mowing lawn almost every 1 and half week during summer. That how fast…

Hi trimum, I'm excited to see new posts from you. I'm still larking around here at H1. hehe
For sure you and I think alike as I have same dinning table…

Pencil pine trees, plant these closely. Get mature trees around 2 meters height.

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Hi 1800, check out Rawson Homes design. My brother is building with Rawson and his frontage is 10m... so one car garage

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I used 24 lots of three pot garden wall stacker $10 each from Bunning hooked on to the cyclone fence. As for cyclone fence FREE collected after neighbour decided to…

We were told cheaper to have window than bricks + tiles or glass splashback
Due to cost of brick laying + insulation between brick and gyprock + carpentry + cost of…

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Please pm with details of your roof supplier plus cost $. We are also looking into similar kind of roof to go on top of deck near…

WOW!! love love love your courtyard garden, this is one great example of small garden with great impact. Just imagine once greenery bamboo covered up the back fence and provide…

I wanted two matching pot of this Swanes golden gold pencil pine tree. So far I only manage to get one. Still looking for another matching plant with same size…

These michelia figo portwine magnolia are Not doing too well. Looking sick. Growing but not growing into thick bush and the leaves has yellowing colour around outer edge.

Rhaphiolepis are doing well and I have placed red flowering pigface in between rhaphiolepis.

Side of the house, from fence to wall is only 1.2m so not much room to work with. I can only place small pot plants hook on wire fence. This…

So far no pests or browning but when ever we had heavy rain lilly pilly trees bent down over the lawn. So I have to support with large tomato stakes.
We…

Vertical garden outside kitchen’s window.

Backyard from alfresco.

Lilly Pilly trees are growing very well.

All orchid pots need TLC.

Thanks, great work by our landscaper and his mate builder. They worked on greenhouse in one day on a very very hot 40 degree day. I had to moved my…

These rio bars were saved from rubbish during building. Now its in good use. I have also used timbers that I had saved from building site for greenhouse.

Greenhouse is 2.m by 7.2m covered with double shade for extra protection from harsh sun.