Design and decoration

Instead of having a boring tiled splashback why not have a stone splashback incorporating the bench top as pictured here. 
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A stunning staircase in one of our knockdown rebuilds in Templestowe. 
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Kew is without a doubt an expensive suburb for land purchasers, so when designing your home you certainly want to make sure the design maximizes the land use.

With so many different combinations and selections with custom cabinetry on offer it’s not difficult to combine the perfect kitchen. Here is an example of a timber and white stone selection with fantastic results. 
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We are always looking to create points of difference in our custom home designs and here is a great example of a design with an outdoor garden opening into the master bedroom bathroom suite. 
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Timber feature ceilings are becoming more popular with our designs lately with outstanding results.

Wine sales are through the roof at the moment and its little wonder because Australia produces some of the best wines in the world. So if you like your wine, when you’re having your custom home designed by Berstan Homes get us to design a wine cellar. 
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Most builders fail to install plaster as per the manufacture’s details. Expansion joints are to be located at 12 metre centres to ceilings and are very seldom installed. By not installing expansion joints this increases the chances of cracking and possible failure and the ceiling falling down.

Staircases are a perfect place for storage and why not build in a custom wine room. 
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A client came to me last month with a design issue on their custom built home plans.

After working with an architect and builder for 12+ months the builders quote came in $600k over budget, yes that’s right, $600k over.

After looking over the proposed building I notice many areas that were poorly designed and where cost savings could be made.