What are we building?

We are getting Coral Homes to build their Bahama 37 design for us, with some minor modifications. 

Standard top floor (http://www.coralhomes.com.au)

Standard ground floor (http://www.coralhomes.com.au)

It was not our favorite to begin with.  In the standard Bahama 37, their are two outdoor living areas and you have to walk through the en-suite is to get to the walk in robe.  Wifey was immediately turned off by these, but I felt it was a very practical design.  Looking at it now, it is similar to an American Foursquare (minus attic, dormers and massive front porch).

Coral Homes' 2013 design book had an invitation to change things around and it had a couple of pages of tracing paper at the back that we could pull out and experiment with. I had a go, and this is what I came up with (Computer enhanced).

Modified top floor (the design still belongs to Coral Homes)

Modified ground floor (the design still belongs to Coral Homes)

My modifications aren't too major.  I fixed the walk in robe situation easy enough by removing one of the small bedrooms and making the retreat another bedroom (I don't know why they bother with retreats, there is no escape from the children).  Filling one of the out door living gave us a rumpus like area. The Flexi/Study is now a guest room with en-suite. It also needed a proper sized double garage instead of the oversize single one . After these changes, wifey was no longer put and off and, as I've said in a previous post, now more enamored with it than myself..

The runners up (in no particular order) were:

• Plantation homes, Sahara
• Simonds, Harcrest
• Metricon, Phoenix
• Ownit, Sorrento
• Clarendon, Fairmont