New Home Buyers Blog

When designing a custom home it’s easy to add in a little extra like your own cellar, one great area for cellars is in the basement.
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By designing a kitchen with a slim line window, it not only allows light in but lets the garden view into your home.
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The best part on designing your new home is you can have a feature that is not available in standard homes. The home design in the photo shows an eye catching perimeter bulkhead with slot registers for the air conditioning.
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Looking for space in your home, let us design your bedroom robe cabinets to be full height.
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Over the years I have heard and answered thousands of questions regarding knockdown rebuilds in Melbourne. I have compiled some of the common questions asked for anyone contemplating doing a knockdown rebuild. What the first step is? A feature survey and soil test is a great start because this will give the builder and designer a great in site into your lands fall (slope) and soil type for structural engineering purposes. What would it cost? It would depend on the
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Do you want a safe home in Melbourne, then buy a dog! It’s the best way to protect you and your family.
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Get some stone in your home! It gives you a great look and definitely a point of interest. We recently used Mount Gambier stone on a project and the client was so amazed by the fossils that we found in the stone.
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Ambassador stone have some amazing choices of stone. Here is an example of the Calacatta selection. Notice how the grain in the stone has been wrapped around the water fall ends.
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Designing bathrooms are changing from the usual shower area and seperate bath. We are now combining the areas so they whole space becomes a wet area zone.
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We are currently installing plenty of shaving cabinets and the cost for the extra space is reasonable. A double cabinet installed is around $990.
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Another demolition is now underway at one of our Doncaster sites. The old home will be making way for a pair of 34s/q high end custom designed homes.
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Instead of just having LED downlights everywhere, why not add some feature lights for a better look and feel in your room.
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Storage, storage, storage. You never have enough storage, so where can you get extra storage? Most kitchens have their cabinets up to 2 metres high so why not have full height cabinets you will be pleasantly surprised how much extra space and storage you will find.
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Construction of a stunning dual occupancy in Doncaster is under way and on the market for sale. The homes are offering the quality that you would expect from custom home builder Berstan Homes.To find out more visit our Home Page.
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With interior design its always a great start when combining artwork to place some similar colours on your furniture to bring it all together.
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With an increasing amount of clients begining to work from home, we are often being asked to include quiet zones within the home design for home office areas.
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Always looking for homewares, Matt Blatt Richmond is a great place to start. They have amazing homewares and the latest trend items.
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How to brighten a room with little cost and with great results, just add some flowers.
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When looking at hanging egg seats or placing heavy art pieces to walls and ceilings always remember to install noggins pre-plaster for strength.
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We are always looking for ways to make a room seem larger than it really is and a great way of achieving this is to add full height mirror doors to your robes.
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Many of our clients are choosing more of a rustic feel in their custom home designs lately. Here is a lovely combination of re-claimed bricks and a colour matched timber handrail to the stairway.
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Going back to the basics, lately we are experiencing clients requesting timber to be included in their kitchens.Timber as part of the kitchen bench or even just a butcher’s block style island is becoming more common.  
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Being able to create different finishes in the home design is just part of the job as a custom home builder and here is an example of bagged brickwork combined with timber stair balustrading.
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I have a 8.5 metre wide lot, can I fit a pool in? Yes, you can and here is a perfect example of a lovely tiled concrete pool with spa on an 8.5m lot.  
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There are plenty of alternatives with materials for splashbacks, glass, tiles, stainless steel and stone.  Here is an example of an Ambassador stone splashback.  
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Haymes paints have done it again with a lovely combination of interest and warmth.
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We are always looking for different finishes to offer our clients for their custom built homes. Here is an eye catching rustic combination of a stone wall with timber flooring creating the perfect earthy feel.
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Looking for more storage why not have Berstan Homes design some under stair storage!
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Just look at the difference in the kitchen by adding some black tapware and appliances to your kitchen WOW.
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Window coverings are an often spoken of topic and they can change the whole feel to a room. The photo shows a great example of plantation shutters, just one of the many choices available.
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