You get to change your mind when it's easy, not when it's expensive.

None of this is about taste. It is ten decisions that cost nothing on paper, a variation form once the contract is signed, and real money once a trade has been on site. Same decision. Different week.

Where are you up to?

Pick one and the ledger below re-scores every decision on it. It stays set for the rest of the site.

Or read the ten decisions first. The call is there either way.

Planning the interior while the walls are still open changes everything.

Watch your choices close

Every bar below is one decision about your home. It stands tall while the choice is still yours, and drops as the build closes it off. Tap where your build is up to.

LandBuilderContractColoursSlabFrameLock-up

Free to changeCosts extraMeans undoing workLocked in

At contract signed, 4 of these are still free to change and 1 is already locked in.

These are our general readings, not a promise about your build. Your builder and your contract decide the real answer, and Srishti will give it to you on the call.

The board tells you when a decision stops being free. Srishti takes the question underneath it: a builder’s quote isn’t what the finished home costs, because upgrades, decorative lighting, window furnishings, furniture and styling all sit outside it. Worth knowing before you read a row on this board as a formality.

By then, it's too late.

The regret we hear most from new home builders: I wish I had planned my interiors before all the build decisions were locked in.

Here's a mistake thousands of new home builders make every year.

Truganina — finished interior — Truganina

Too late to move walls.: Once the frame is up, the plan is the plan. Everything after that is a negotiation with work that already exists.
Too late to refine layouts.: The room you would have made a metre wider is the room you now furnish around.
Too late to fix something that could have been perfect.: Not broken. Not unliveable. Just permanently a little less than it could have been.

St. Leonards — finished interior — St. Leonards

Frame already up? There is still a list of things worth changing, and a shorter one that isn’t.

You cannot add north-facing light after the slab goes down.

Move the sun across the day and watch the rooms fill and empty. Then turn the plan around. Whichever rooms just went dark are the ones you would have been living in.

Lighting changes function, mood, artwork, joinery and how materials read.

Daylight and the lighting plan are one conversation. One is settled by where the house sits on the block, the other by where the electrician is told to put the switches. Both are done before anyone picks a pendant.

See the electrical row on the board

12pm

Tap a line to see it on the plan.

Five things to settle before the first trade arrives.

In this order, because each one narrows the next. Tick them off as you settle them.

Forget how it looks on paper. Walk it against an ordinary Tuesday — where the bags land, where everyone ends up, what you are carrying and where you put it down.
- Furniture, circulation and storage checked before you approve it, not after.
- The home is designed around your life rather than your life working around the plan.
Forget how the floor plan looks on paper

0 of 5 settled

The list stays on this device and comes with you to the call.

If you are doing it yourself, this is the part that usually stalls. Four hundred saved homes is a mood, not a direction, and Srishti shows what we do with the references you already have before a single thing is chosen.

"We'll decide that later" is an expensive sentence.

Srishti on why the order of the decisions matters as much as the decisions. Tap one and it plays here.

All the answers, on camera

None of these look like a decision made under pressure.

Because they weren't. Floor plan, light, joinery and finishes were settled as one document before the first trade arrived.

Truganina — SnugNest project — Truganina

St. Leonards — SnugNest project — St. Leonards

Port Melbourne — SnugNest project — Port Melbourne

Bacchus Marsh — SnugNest project — Bacchus Marsh

Hawthorn East had tried to do it herself, more than once. What defeated her was never a single room. It was getting one theme to run consistently through all of them, which is the thing every house above had settled on paper before a trade arrived.

"I don't want to burden ourselves with making expensive mistakes."

Their words, not ours. Every client's experience is their own, and not a guarantee of yours.

Officer, a new build we took from floor plan to handover.

Don't wait till the move-in date to realise something is missing.

Bring whatever you have. A floor plan, a builder's contract, a date for the colour appointment. We will tell you what is still on the table and what it would cost to change the rest.

Free, and there is no obligation. It works best before you sign with your builder.

See how we work

Contract signed. 4 of the ten big decisions are still free to change.