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Open any home design and tap “Compare with 2 other plans”. You can compare up to 3 designs side-by-side, from any builder.

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What a designer compares that the brochure does not

Reading the drawings

What an architect would change on a volume plan

A designer reads a plan by walking through it in their head from the front door: where do the keys go, where does the pram go, can you see the telly from the kitchen, where does the washing dry. The plan that fails that walk is the one that looked great on the brochure.

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Reading the drawings

How to read a floor plan

The first thing a builder checks is the overall dimensions against the block, then the wet areas. If the bathrooms, laundry and kitchen sit close together, the plumbing is short and cheap. If they are scattered to four corners, someone was drawing rooms, not a house.

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