Choosing Our Builder and House Design
For the design and construction of our home, we chose McDonald Jones. We wanted a trusted and proven builder that could provide us with the quality and freedom needed to bring our first home to fruition. We fell for the Lyndhurst Executive design from the "Stuart Everett" range as it provided the perfect balance of open plan living but still having a welcoming homely feel. Although we loved the original plans we still wanted to make the house our own. So we chose to Upgrade the original plans to the Lyndhurst 'Executive' design as we felt the altered layout suited us and the block better (and let's be honest we wanted the butler's pantry) Keeping our steep frontage of the block that we love in mind we did not want to do major landscaping changes just to accommodate for the garage entry so we moved the garage entrance to the left face of the house adding 2 windows to the frontage of the house. We also changed the Facade from the classic to the