Step inside one of our acreage builds.
What makes an acreage build different from a suburban build?
On acreage the block does more of the work, and it also carries more of the cost. Services run further, the driveway becomes a real line item, you may be on tank water and on site wastewater rather than town connections, and the house has to be sited rather than simply placed. Get those decisions right early and the block becomes the best thing about the house.
The site costs people do not budget for
Acreage estimates go wrong in predictable places, so we price them up front rather than leaving them as allowances:
- Driveway length, fall and surface, which on a long block is thousands rather than hundreds.
- The distance power has to be run from the road, and whether the connection is overhead or underground.
- On site wastewater treatment, its buffer distances, and where that leaves the house on the block.
- Water tanks, and firefighting supply where it is required.
- Soil classification and the footing design that follows from it.
- Bushfire construction requirements where an overlay applies to your block.
Designing to the block rather than onto it
We survey and walk the block before drawing anything. Sun path, prevailing breeze, the fall, the views, the trees you keep and the ones that have to go. Then the house is drawn to suit it. Because we design and build in the same company, what gets drawn is what gets built, and there is no gap between the two where cost and blame usually live.
Where we build
We are based in Narangba and build across north Brisbane and the Moreton Bay region, up to the Sunshine Coast, including North Lakes, Narangba, Newport, Samford Valley and Banksia Beach. If you are unsure whether your block is in our area, send us the address and we will tell you straight away.
Written by Jay Mostyn, founder and director of Luxury Lifestyle Homes. Jay is a qualified carpenter QBCC licence number 15156763 with 20+ years building custom homes across Brisbane and the Moreton Bay region.