June 22, 2025You are about to embark on a long journey. We were in your shoes. The most important thing is to know what you need (the minimum baseline), want (your wishlist) and how much you can afford.
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June 21, 2025Inspection and Handover: Your Guide to the Final Stages of Building Your NSW Home
Your home build is approaching its final—and most crucial—milestone. So what should you know at this stage? What should you expect? And what are your legal rights and responsibilities? This guide walks you through the inspection and handover process, explains your entitlements around defects, and clarifies the warranties that safeguard your investment under NSW law. Understanding these final stages now can help you avoid unnecessary stress, expense, and delays later.
June 20, 2025Understanding your rights around building defects and warranties is essential to protecting your new home—and your peace of mind. NSW law provides strong safeguards for homeowners, including clearly defined warranty periods and compensation schemes. Here’s what you need to know.
Defects in building work are classified into two categories under NSW law: major defects and minor defects.
June 15, 2025Welcome! I’m glad you’ve found your way here.
This site began as a personal project—a place to collect my thoughts, share my experiences, and reflect on the journey of undertaking a knockdown and rebuild (KDR) project. Like many Australians exploring the dream of designing and building their ideal home, I started this process with more questions than answers. And I quickly realised that despite a wealth of information out there, much of it was fragmented, overly technical, or geared toward people already working in the construction or property development industries.
June 15, 2025Ready to begin? Choose your starting point:
Not sure where you fit? Take our 2-minute readiness assessment (still to be built) to discover your ideal starting point and get personalised recommendations for your situation.