Building your own home: Our dream renovation

The purpose behind this series of articles is to help and inform other owner builders and renovators through the process of building your own home.

This series will document each stage in great detail of our major structural renovation project. You will be taken on a journey through the preliminary stages finally arriving at practical completion. As a result you guys will get front row seats into our renovation project.

Learn exactly how we …

• Designed our plans and specifications
  
• Working through the preliminary stages, including liaising with council and engaging certifiers, surveyors and engineers.
• Engaging trades as we work through the various stages of construction.
• How we budgeted and estimated materials/labour during the construction process.
• Organising delivery of materials.
• An in depth analysis of the whole owner builder construction process, with photos included.

Welcome To Our Dream Home

First of all, a quick insight into our project and what we are trying to achieve. This is a quick snapshot of what you to can achieve building your own home.

What we have now:

A 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, living kitchen and laundry home, almost 90m2 home with a brick sub floor and fibro cladding.

What we plan to turn our old home into:

Our dream renovation will extend our current 2 bedroom home into a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom, entertainers dream home. Therefore, turning our old 90m2 home into hopefully a beautiful 250m2 home excluding outdoor living areas. Above all, turning it into a family friendly forever home.

What we learnt building your own home

The whole process has been daunting and tiring. But! We would not change it for the world, ever! Building your own home gives you a good sense of achievement.

At each stage, you step back to look at your efforts so far. A sense of excitement will come over you with what’s still to come, and the final outcome.

Come along with us and experience our journey. Just maybe you might hopefully learn something along the way too!

Considering owner building your own home? Take a look at our article how much you can save being an owner builder.

Looking for a owner builder course provider? We recommend 101Ed as we had no issues completing the course through them.

Building your own home too?

Comment below if you have any questions at all or to tell us if you are building your own home too. We would love to hear from you!