Custom Home Builders
Create your dream home with G.J. Gardner Homes’ customisable designs, offering the perfect blend of flexibility and affordability.
Learn everything you need to know about building your dream custom home here. Explore your options anddiscover how we can help you every step of the way. Ready to get started? Contact us today for expert guidance!
Standard Plan
A home design chosen from a catalogue of the builders range. It is a ‘tried and tested’ home design that is intended to be a robust, proven product. You may be allowed limited personalization e.g. choosing fixtures, fittings and colors. You will have little if any involvement in the design
Standard Plan
If you want to customize a standard plan, for example adding additional rooms, this would be called a custom home. It all depends on how involved you get. The term ‘custom home’ can also be used to describe a bespoke home designed and built from scratch.
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What does ‘custom home design’ really mean?
Whether it’s a custom, semi custom or fully bespoke design you and your builder or new home consultant will have significant input in the design. You will therefore spend more on consultation fees from draftspeople, building designers and potentially architects.
It’s important to note that the phrase ‘custom home design’ is complex, and means different things to different people. This is because these days no one ever really starts from scratch, and for good reason. Reinventing the wheel is likely to lead to a home design that just doesn’t work, has wasted space and poor solar gain. Most architects/designers and custom home builders have a series of frameworks and patterns that they work from, based on the brief and input you provide.
There are of course boutique architects/designers that will design you a truly unique, full custom home design. But for the everyday American family, this isn’t the reality.
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A better way – the G.J. Designer Plan
At G.J. Gardner Homes, our new home consultants will introduce you to the concept of a G.J. Designer Plan. This option gives you the proven functionality and practicality of an off the shelf plan, while allowing you some of the flexibility that comes with a custom home design. Starting with a G.J. Designer Plan means choosing a home design and working with a new home consultant to tailor it to your needs (think block size, position and shape) and tastes.
Experience and expertise
We believe a G.J. Designer Plan is the best option for the majority of buyers, because you’re starting with a solid foundation. This is due to the amount of expertise that is required to deliver our home designs:
The designs have had hundreds of hours of professional input to maximise space, light, usability and importantly buildability.
Many of our home designs are updated yearly based on both local and global building design trends.
Our building designers work in a team with 3D designers, collaborating in fully interactive 3D. This means that the home designs are created in extreme detail with great care given to all aspects, from your open plan entertaining area right down to the ensuite toilet roll holder!
Make your money work harder
With a G.J. Designer Plan, all of the hard work is done, and you can spend your hard earned dollars on choosing the ‘fun’ stuff features, fittings and finishes. You will also have a variety of facade options to choose from, such as Traditional, Modern, Modern Farmhouse and Craftsman.
This selection process is also likely to be easier and faster than starting a fully custom home design from scratch. That means it’s likely to be more affordable. This is because your new home consultant will help you narrow down your choices more quickly.
Make your money work harder
Browsing home designs is also an opportunity for you to be inspired. Sometimes it’s difficult to put your finger on what exactly you want in a home until you see it. Our home designs have been carefully crafted to offer a range of options that appeal to a variety of household sizes, locations and tastes.
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