So where to start? Luckily as it turned out, we had spent some weekends looking at Display Home Villages around Brisbane. We'd been doing this out of interest and with no particular purpose, however at least it have given us a benchmark and some idea of what we wanted.
We were at first very drawn to the popular Metricon designs, and the finishes in their display homes were exemplary - they stood out from the rest. I really liked the Denver and DH and I both liked the Chelsea.
However they weren't exactly what we wanted. We had also looked at dozens of other display homes, and no other builder stood out for us, until we visited the Garth Chapman display home.
Walking into their display home was an eye opening experience. Everything aspect of the house had us saying "wow". Garth Chapman is a Queensland company with an excellent reputation in building both traditional Queenslanders and modern homes. They place great emphasis on superb building quality and designing energy efficient homes. Here are a few photos we took on our first visit to their display home:
While this home wasn't exactly what we wanted, we loved the finishes, the character and quality. We have always loved weatherboard and character homes, and so this also struck a chord.
One of the clinchers for us was the absolutely lovely designer and consultant Kevin, who works out of the Display Home. Right from the start he was friendly, approachable, relaxed and in no way a pushy salesman. What I also liked was that he is the man who designs your home and sees you through the process up to handing over to the site foreman. I loved the idea of the continuity of relationship with our builder - I didn't want to be handed from one contractor to another.
So we essentially fell in love and didn't look any further. We did a bit of due diligence on the company, and only found excellent feedback.
So in June 2012, we started the process of designing our dream character home!
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