The Living Room

This is the display house living room at Coburg Hill. As with the kitchen, the bulkhead will be absent, as will the fitted cabinets visible on the left. The bi-fold door behind the couch will be a wall with a large window, as we will have stacker doors on the end wall of the lounge area and in the adjacent dining area. We figured one only needs so many exits from the ground floor.

Hopefully this picture conveys some of the reason we opted for the 8.5m block suited Breeze, over the standard 10m wide block builds. On the right hand side you can see the garden wrapping around the building. This acts to make the plot feel more spacious and immediately breaks up the garden space into different zones. Instead of just looking out of the one rear aspect with a full block width house and having tiny windows onto a fence or wall, we will have views from two sides of the living/dining/kitchen space onto our garden. The layout of our house will be the mirror of this with a Northerly rear and the side windows facing West.

Whilst we loved the bi-fold doors, they are very expensive. However, the "middle" option of a stacker door gives you a larger aperture than the standard sliding, and can be more adaptable than the bi-fold. Each stacker was a $450 upgrade (in the case of the dining room door there was an additional cost of $120 to create a sliding door space before this, in lieu of a window).