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How to Find Affordable Kit Homes
Your guide to affordable kit homes | For the budget orientated owner builder
Selecting a Kit Home Builder to Provide your Kit
The correct kit home builder is the key to a successful owner build project
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Exploring Eco-friendly Kithomes
Exploring Eco-Friendly Kithomes - Designs and Eco-Conscious Building Materials
Steel Yourself
We bought a property in the Hunter Valley and are now seriously considering building a kithome. I've spent a fair bit of time looking all around at all
Flat pack kitchen cabinets: designing for kit homes
Kitchen cabinets in flatpack form are a great fit for the ownerbuilder of kit homes
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Kitchen Renovation Before and After
My kitchen renovation before and after | Old kit home galley to suberb modern kitchen
Granny flat kit building resource guide
The humble Granny Flat is now sexy again | Resources for the owner builder
Fire Safety Protection for build your own home kits
Enhance bush fire safety protection of an owner built kit home
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How to Render Blueboard Cladding
How to render blueboard cladding | how to make render | applying render
Build Your Own Deck: Ground Level and Portable
Build Your Own Deck, tools, plans and how to build a ground level deck.
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Granny flat plans: plans for small houses
A selection of granny flat plans from kit home providers | One bedroom plans for small houses
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The real cost of owner building a kit home
A real cost overview for kit home owner builders
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No drainage base material?
No sand? No gravel or crushed rock? The wood frame will start to sink and distort after a few rain storms.
Build your own home — grand designs for beginners
I blame the Channel 4 programme Grand Designs. Like tens of thousands of others, I have built my own home. It cost more than I planned, took longer than
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Modular construction: a housing affordability game-changer?
Mass production could make apartments radically cheaper and faster to build. Is the future of apartment construction indoors? The costs of physical construction—the
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