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The Best Pool Designs To Compliment Your New Dream Home

Summer Paradise With A Custom Pool

Pools go together with Australian summers like love and marriage. It’s time to take the plunge and choose a style of custom pool that’s going to be the right fit for your new luxury, custom Bayside home.

There’s plenty to consider, so we’ve pulled together the best swimming pool design ideas to help inspire you. Find out what’s involved as we take a dive into the options and features available for your custom pool.

How To Use Dark Colours Successfully In Your Custom Home

Today, more homeowners are opting for the addition of a dark home exterior and weaving those elements throughout the home too. If well-executed, dark colours can be cosy, full of life, and dramatic. But, if you want to embrace the dark side, you need to know how to avoid the gloom associated with these colours.

Here are some helpful tips for using dark colours successfully in your custom home.

What To Look For in a Local Custom Home Builder

Committing to building your own custom home is an exciting benchmark to meet. With your land purchased and a vision for your future eagerly awaiting fruition, it’s time to find the right local custom home builder. This is the most important step.

So, what should you look for when researching a local custom builder for your home? From being able to communicate clearly, to hearing your desire for customisation, and providing current testimonials from satisfied customers, you want someone who will be a reliable partner on the road to architectural beauty and success.

What’s Your Custom Home Style?

Everyone has their own unique taste. Simply glancing at the wide variety in fashion walking down the foot path or street in any urban centre today can give you an insight into the differences in what we find attractive. Australian homes display this same diversity. A wide variety in architectural taste and style has developed across the country over hundreds of years and while some people still gravitate strongly to all that references history and days past, others are now searching the horizon for hints of light shining on all that’s novel and new.

What is your preferred style of custom home? Take a moment to brainstorm your ideas with some of these most popular selections now on the market.

The Benefits of a Knockdown Rebuild

This past year has been huge for knockdown rebuilds in the residential construction industry, with more and more clients choosing to demolish their existing homes before rebuilding the home they have been dreaming of.

If you’re thinking about a knockdown rebuild, Oceanview Constructions is one of the best companies for knockdown rebuilds and new custom homes in the Redlands area.

Winners of Multiple State and Regional Queensland Master Builders Housing and Constructions Awards, Oceanview Constructions has developed a reputation for building quality custom homes thanks to a team of experienced and dedicated building professionals.

Research suggests that buying and selling property can be one of the most stressful endeavours we undertake as adults however, it really doesn’t need to be.

And, that goes for a knockdown, rebuild too.

Read on to discover the variety of benefits a knockdown rebuild can offer you!

These Interior Paint Colours Will Be Everywhere In 2022

The design of your home reflects your standards in quality, style, and taste. While the material you choose for elements such as your flooring and furnishings has an enormous impact on the face your home puts forward, one of the often-overlooked factors is your paint. Paint can add colour (or remove it) and plays a strong role in the ambiance you create and the tone you set.

Interior paint colours, like interior design, tends to go in waves. New trends are always on the horizon, just like changing fashion runways. So, what does 2022 promise to bring when it comes to the colour of your walls? Here’s a look:

Multifunctional Space And Your Custom Home

Since the onset of the pandemic, more people have been working from home than ever, and ultimately spending most of their time there. So now the home must accommodate many other functions beyond what we originally conceived it to be. How can you successfully incorporate your work-from-home space within the layout of your custom home?

Custom Home Lighting Inspiration

You want your custom home to breathe with natural light. Large windows, minimalist design and light-coloured surfaces all contribute to making this happen. That being said, the lighting you choose for your home shouldn’t be forgotten because it can create essential ambience, with form and function working to complement each other.

Where to start? Read on to discover some custom home lighting inspiration!

Custom Home Bathroom Tiling Trends

When designing your custom home, we consider the style of your bathroom to be just as important as the impact of your main entrance. Bathrooms, strangely enough, present a unique design opportunity! From your tub to the taps, mirrors, lighting, and the tiles, here, you can truly express your personal taste in the fine details.

Custom bathroom tiles present an ideal way to add personality to your home at an affordable price. What should you consider when making your choice? Here’s a look at some of the current custom bathroom tiling trends. Let the dreaming begin!

Trending Flooring Ideas For Your Custom Home

Flooring is the first physical contact you have with the space in front of you. Your eyes may be taking in a visual first impression but setting foot into a home or another building is equally important. We would go as far as to say the right floor can make or break your interiors.

Building a custom home is all about attention to detail and choosing what is perfect for you. If you are keen on interiors trends, hard surfaces are more popular than carpet flooring in 2021. Our team tends to agree. To get you started, let’s look at some of our favourite trending flooring ideas for your custom home.