Choosing the Right House

After choosing Carlisle Homes to build our family home, the daunting task of locking in a house design and plan began. Our home for the past 11 years sat on an allotment of approx 600m2. It was a home full of character and heart. One of the best features was the size of the yard. The house sat close to the front giving us an expansive outdoor entertaining area and back garden. We are outdoor lovers and avid gardeners and therefore spent most of our time in this space. One of the significant challenges that we would face early on in the building process was the sacrifice of yard space to build  the home that we would want. We both wanted to build a home that would cater for our family for now and into the future whilst also maintaining the components we loved about our previous home.

We went between the idea of single and double story homes constantly in the beginning. Compiling lists about the pros and cons of each. We lived in a double story home so the idea of a single story was appealing in many ways. Carlisle Homes have 3 house collections. After visiting what felt like all their display homes in Victoria we knew that we wanted to build from their Affinity Collection. This series of homes is their luxury design collection and includes an enormous amount of items that were integral to the house we wanted to build.We fell in love with the Winslow 33. The floor plan ticked most of our boxes and was suited to our lifestyle, family and importantly, budget.  The Winslow design was part of the Affinity collection and we started to feel we may have found 'the one'. It's so easy to get swept up in all the bells and whistles in the housing world and when we started to pull everything away and think hard about what we wanted in a home, we started to find that the Winslow, in fact, may not be it. Although we liked the idea of a single story home, we were nervous about the length of this house compared to a double story. The Winslow also just happened to be the longest single story home - always the way! The house also had 3 interconnected living spaces that would suit us perfectly. Perfectly right now. But we want to see ourselves in this home for a long time and looking into the future with two teenage girls and a bunch of their friends, this home may not suit our needs forever. We definitely knew we wanted to stick with Carlisle but we needed to rethink the design. We wanted to consider the best option for us to suit the needs of our family, what we wanted in a home and to maximise our outdoor space and concluded this was going to be to build a double story home. One house stood above the rest for us and that is why we chose to build the Nelson 46. I still have to pinch myself to believe that this really is going to be built on our land! The house design is amazing. It is spacious, has open interconnected living areas, ideally set up for our family - our bedroom downstairs and the girls up, the living areas open up to become indoor/outdoor spaces and most of it is downright crazy in its luxuriousness and space. We will feel very privileged to live in this house once it is built. And so our journey begins...........