How to Get the Best Home Design, Handcrafted by a Skilled Trade Based Builder, for the Best Price.

Don't waste money on plans & engineering that are too expensive to build - Cost Plan your Design
Avoid selecting a builder because they happen to have a suitable design. Use skilled and reputable trade based builders.
Misinformation is generated when builders are pressured into providing unrealistic solutions. Manage your expectation with knowledge and know-how
Educate yourself - it is cheap and easy.

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Home Design and Build on a Budget?

Setting up your project for success with a Low Cost Feasibility Study (LCFS)

A large builder is able to negotiate volume discounts, this is true, but they also have huge overhead.These overheads are more than enough to offset any volume discount gains.

Trade Builders on the other hand, are hands on, and unless they are burdened with large customer servicing costs, have small overheads. We focus on providing these builders with admin services that allow them to provide efficient and responsive service to prospective customers, without piling on additional overhead.

If we then help these builders aggregate their supply orders, supplement services already offered in the marketplace, they can then combine low overhead with low-costs.

These services allow us to properly estimate building costs, and incorporate build-cost into the home design process.

We now have a trifecta

1. 1. Cost Planned custom home design
  2. Experienced, reputable and competent hands-on builders
  3. Low costs.

Read how you can take advantage of easy to use systems and data to get the get the perfect home design, the best and most experienced builders at incredibly low prices.

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1800 710 102

Custom design to budget and have your home handcrafted by a skilled trade-based builder

Whether you’re looking to Build a project style house plan or custom home design … you need the right one before you can fine-tune the selection of your builder. Somewhere in the mix, you need to price check the proposed home design solution.

The traditional approach on offer would have you sift through house plan galleries, find a plan that looked suitable, see if it was a show house, and get a price to build the home design on your land. In this situation there is no need to find a builder, the selection of the builder is automatic. The owner of the design will be the builder.

We think this process is back-to-front. The stars in the heavens would need to be aligned the ensure you find the right home design, for the right price, with the right builder. It is more likely you would make significant compromises to have anything resembling your perfect home design and build solution.

Why would you not design your home to budget, then select the builder on the basis of skill, reputation and experience?

Download our how-to guide to find out how you can get the home design you want ... exactly. And save time, effort and money in the process.

We may not have had the tools to do this readily available in the past, we do now.

Phenomenal technological advances of recent times have dramatically changed the home design and build landscape. It is easier, quicker and more cost effective; to design, price and deliver an individually designed home than it is a standard project home.

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ONE STOP TRADITIONAL HOME DESIGN AND BUILD

Home Design & Price Estimates
- We will work with your plan
- Our in-house designers can provide a home design to your taste
- Sketch Plans allow us to cost-plan the project from the start
- No wasted time, effort & money on plans that break the bank
- No frustrating back and forth for the builder
Construction Plans, Engineering, Selections and Trade Prices
- You and the builder keep control of costs
- Eliminate last minute hiccups that blow the budget
- Trade coverage helps the builders relax and avoid bloating the price with “scare quoting”
- Pricing uncertainty is the biggest single cause of over, and under quoting
Contracts, Documents and Contract Management
- Detailing the specification eliminates misunderstanding
- You set the agenda. Both you and the builder are working from clear documents outlining the scope of works
- The plans, & engineering are synced with the specification,colour selections and any variations. This protects the builder and you
Construction, Progress and Completion
- Project documentation is aligned with your expectations
- Specifications, Orders, quotes, selections and scheduling are all from the same page.
- There is less likelihood of disruption to building progress, that ruins the building experience for everyone concerned.

What Our Clients Have to Say

We were very fortunate to have met Building Buddy who …went away and within a few days presented us with the most sensational design, even better than we envisaged at a price well within our budget.
Steve & Bylinda Trivett
We began, by spending week-ends touring around display homes. It was obvious that these sales people had little training or qualification…. Building Buddy quickly provided us with conceptional drawings, … and came up with what we wanted exactly.
Clive Hind
We wanted to undertake a Dual Occupancy DA on a difficult site. Six builders turned us down. … until Building Buddy … and we eventually had our DA … we are extremely pleased with the outcome and have no hesitation in recommending Building Buddy.
Mark Reardon
It was the personal attention we got from Building Buddy that made us choose to go with them … We always found the service very professional, informative, attentive and friendly. We have no hesitation in recommending Building Buddy to anyone.
Adrian Webber
I would not hesitate to recommend Building Buddy for any building project, whether you really need all their skill or not. You can never know when specialist knowledge of an issue at hand will come in handy, as it did on ours.
Carmel Davy
Many company’s that we had researched wanted some sort of deposit up front, but with Building Buddy, I think we had mutual trust in each other that we were serious about our concepts, and with them behind the sketches and countless drawings, they made our dreams come true.
Mohammed & Salmeen Haq
Having a look on the internet for plans ...but we didn’t have much luck, we then came across building buddy ...I don’t know how but they just managed to nail everything we wanted in a design... It seemed like a very quick process, one minute we had a design, next minute we had the quote and the next minute we had builders.
Jim & Donna Smith
We had some Plans Drawn by another group, had difficulty getting anyone to quote on it and when we did the price seemed unrealistic to us... It really was that Building Buddy wanted to know how much to spend and design to that, rather than get plans drawn up and take it to the market and find out that is not near what you wanted it to cost.
Bernie and Marylin Smith
Going to a project home they only offer a certain amount of styles, I did like some of them but then I did have to change a number of things I didn’t like about them.After we got a price from building buddy I also then got a price from the project home builders of a house which was closest to our design. but with the changes we want it would cost at least 60k more… so we thought it would be better to go with Building Buddy.
Chris & Peter Bell

BROWSE PLANS

Completed Projects

Our collection of completed projects is our pride and proof that our service delivers. Each project started off with a free Preliminary Design and Build costs estimates that gave our clients the confidence and space to go ahead with their home build.

More Completed Projects

BARDON

POZIERES

WALTER

ERICA

SILKWOOD

YERONGA

ALLAWAH

GODWIN

House Plans

Our House Plans are based off real designs created for real clients, these collections will help give ideas about what you want for a home design. Remember these designs can be modified to suits your needs.

Small Lot House Plan

Two Storey House Plans

Acreage Lot House Plans

Lowset House Plans

Sloping Lot House Plans

Highset House Plans

Duplex House Plans

Recent Designs

Some of our Latest Designs created by Building Buddy.

FIRETAIL

RINGNECK

HERON

WELLINGTON

SHERWOOD

SILVEREYE

FINCH

ENOGGERA

Affiliated Builders

Building Buddy only works with the most competent builders to make sure we achieve the best outcome. By work closely with builders we can costplan the project in a way that makes it esay for you and the builder to do a deal. Problems and difficulties are overcome early; helping to deliver the best outcome possible.