Thinking about getting three builder quotes? This popular advice might be undermining your dream build. Find out why top builders avoid quoting battles and learn how choosing your builder before you design ensures a smoother, smarter building experience.

Most homeowners feel stuck between two extremes: the inflexible project build or the costly custom route. But what if there was a third, smarter way? In this post, we share how our own experience in custom design led us to create the House Plan Toolkits—offering timeless design, cost clarity, and far less overwhelm.

Choosing between a project builder and a custom builder can drastically impact your home-building experience. Understand the true differences, hidden costs, and decide which path aligns with your dream home vision.

Feeling overwhelmed by choosing your custom home design-build dream team? Learn exactly how to assemble a builder-designer partnership that prevents budget blowouts, reduces stress, and turns your dream home into reality.

The early stages of the home design-build journey are arguably the most important, but for so many homeowners, this is when the most costly mistakes happen. Mistakes that are very difficult or even impossible to rectify without big time delays or stressful budget blowouts.

So let’s get you prepared for a great start. Here are our top tips for avoiding those common traps.

There are a number of factors that contribute to the overall cost of a build.

But to keep things simple, we’re going to run you through the 3 biggest contributing factors in more detail.

Aaron and I have been designing and building bespoke custom homes for a little over 15 years now.

And in that time we’ve been lucky enough to have homes win awards, grace the pages of glossy magazines, achieve record prices once they’ve been sold, and finally (and arguably the outcome we’re most proud of!) we’ve created spaces that our clients are still proud to call home many, many years down the track.

So how did we get from this to House Plan Toolkits? Read on….

You’ve been pinning, scrolling, and driving by new estates for months. And now you’re finally ready to take the plunge and design your dream home.

Cue the excitement, grab your inspo images and pop that champagne!

But wait… what the heck is the next step?!

Stick with us, and we'll explain everything.