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Top Kitchen Trends for 2018
There are few people with more experience in kitchen renovations than Dee Purvey, Pre-start selections consultant for Addstyle Master Builders, Western Australia's most awarded home renovation builder. Dee has spent years guiding and advising hundreds of Perth clients...
The 5 Most Common Mistakes DIY Renovators Make
1. They believe what they see on TV. Quite simply, reality television renovations shows are unrealistic. The construction time-frames and project costs can be misleading for DIY home renovators. Shire approvals and much of the construction work has been completed in...
5 Top Reasons to Add a Second Storey to Your Home
5 Top Reasons to Add a Second Storey to Your Home Adding a second storey addition has long been a popular way for property owners to add space and street appeal to their home without encroaching on their ground floor garden areas. A second storey addition is also a...
Adding a Bedroom and Bathroom
Adding a Bedroom & Bathroom: Changing a 3 x 1 into a 4 x 2 There's no doubt about it, converting a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom home into a 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom home is a certain way to add value and market appeal to your property. "3 by 1" properties are...
Dine out..without leaving Home: Adding an Alfresco Area
Dine Out...Without leaving home: Adding an Alfresco Area. It seems that the humble Patio has been upstaged. Over the past decade the popularity of fully-integrated Alfresco Areas has pushed the traditional Patio towards extinction. Firstly, what is the difference?...
Meet the Addstyle Team: Rob Travers, Regional Manager – South West
Meet the Team: Rob Travers, Regional Manager- South West Building, and Addstyle in particular, runs through Rob's veins - His father Robert Travers founded the company in 1988 when Rob was...29 years younger. 😉 Rob commenced his working life as an apprentice...
Perth Housing Awards: Why they are more important than you thought.
Perth Housing Awards: Why they are more important than you thought. A builder's success at the building industry awards, or more accurately the consistency of their success, is a very reliable way for you to determine the genuine credibility of a builder. We explain...
5 Reasons To Expand Your Property
5 Reasons to expand your home. Adding another storey is a sensible way for property owners to add space and street appeal to their home, without encroaching on their ground floor outdoor areas. Second-storey additions is a...
3 Questions you should ask your home renovation builder.
3 Questions you should ask your home renovation builder, before you sign on the dotted line. So you're considering renovating your home, and while you've no doubt spent many hours pacing out the back garden and debating the positioning of rooms with your...
Why You Should Consider Building a Granny Flat
The popularity of “granny flats” is on the rise in Perth. Changes to local planning laws in 2014 have seen a rapid increase in interest from homeowners wishing to add these independent dwellings to their property. Thanks to relaxed planning rules, adding a granny flat...
Five Steps to Renovation Success
Five Steps to Renovation Success Home renovating should be an exciting journey, but unfortunately projects can go awry if proper planning and professionalism are not adopted from the very beginning. So before you start packing boxes and demolishing walls, take a...
The popularity of outdoor kitchens and why every Perth home needs one
The popularity of outdoor kitchens and why every Perth home needs one No one wants to settle for the simple four-burner BBQ on wheels anymore; outdoor kitchens are the new must-have addition to the outdoor entertaining space, and they are getting bigger, sleeker and...