Design your

dream house!

Design the floor plan of your house.

You will AT LEAST need to have

these rooms:

Kitchen

Lounge Room

3 Bedrooms

Bathroom

Laundry

Garage

You may have extra

rooms if you like.

What your house

must have

Standard room

sizes

Garage: (2 cars) 6m x 6m

Main Bedroom: 4m x 5m

Kids Bedrooms: 3m x 3m

Bathroom: 3m x 2m

Lounge Room: 5m x 5m

Kitchen: 5m x 5m

Dining Area: 4m x 3m

Laundry: 2m x 3m

(Be careful with the sizes of your

rooms. Always keep cost in mind,

big house = big cost.)

Key house measurements

____________m2

House area:

_______________________________________________m’s

House perimeter:

____________m2

Grass area:

_______________________________________________m’s

Block perimeter:

Fence shared:

Neighbour 1: ____________________m’s

Neighbour 2:_____________________m’s

Neighbour 3: ____________________m’s

Cost to build

Perimeter of your house: Bricks will cost $2000 a metre for

the perimeter of your house.

Weatherboard will cost $1200.

Area of your house:

A concrete slab will need to be poured

first. Concrete will cost $50 per square

meter of your house. (This is in every

room of your house including garage).

Note: You can also use con-

crete for your driveways, foot-

paths and outdoor areas.

Your inside walls will

cost $50 a metre, which

accounts for the height.

Inside Walls

Cost to build

Garage doors If you have double garage doors it will

be $1800. If you have a single garage

door it will be $1100.

Roofing on house A roof will span the entire area of your

house. A colourbond roof will cost $22

a square meter. A tile roof will cost $45.

Fencing

You need to have a

fence around the pe-

rimeter of your prop-

erty. It will cost $80

per meter for colour-

bond and $50 for zinc.

House space

L and W Area Material Cost

E.g Bedroom 2 3m x 3m 9m2 High quality carpet 9 x $45 = $405

Flooring for your

house CARPET

$75 sq m

$43 sq m

$21 sq m

TILES / VINYL High Quality $70 sq m

Low Quality $45 sq m

Floor Vinyl $25 sq m

FLOORBOARDS

High Quality $85 sq m

Low Quality $47 sq m

DECKING

High Quality $72 sq m

Low Quality $38 sq m

Landscaping TURF GRASS

High Quality $54 sq m

Low Quality $31 sq m

GRAVEL

High Quality $30 sq m

Low Quality $15 sq m

Chip Bark

Coloured $40 m2

Plain $20 m2

Trees

Hedge

(1mx1m $15 each

Medium (1m

x 2m) $20 each

Large (2m x

2m) $50 each

POOL

$2800 m2

SHED

Zinc

3m x 3m

$999

Colourbond

3m x 4m

$2500

Coliurbond

3m x 6m

$3700

Landscaping Block Fencing

Colourbond $90 m

Low Quality $55 m

Pool Fencing

Glass $95 m

Steel $45 m