Elegant Simplicity
Elegant Simplicity
Do you love the suburb you live in and your home is need of a change? A renovation is an excellent way to update an older home, accommodate a growing family and add your own style to your home.
For your Designer to develop design options, it is essential to consider the local Council’s and State’s regulations for building, including Bushfire and Heritage.
Sydney, when viewed from the air, is lined spectacularly by harbour foreshore and bushland, which are often considered Bushfire Prone Areas. For safety reasons, authorities have a compliance plan for councils, NSW fire authorities, builders and certifiers to follow. If you are planning a home renovation, your plans have to be submitted to the authorities and obtain approval before renovating in Bushfire Prone Areas.
When building a house or adding an extension to your existing home, you may excitedly think about all sorts of things — the theme, the fixtures you want or simply the extra living quality. But it is very rare that people think about the shadows in home design. Shadows that their new home or home extension may create.
For me (and you), shadows in home design play a critical role in every building and renovation project. Let me explain why and give you a few tips to keep your neighbours as friends.
In an article for the Property Observer, Jennifer Duke writes that Perth homeowners willing to undertake renovations have been advised by building commissioners to look at work registrations of painters minutely. In absence of this Due Diligence they may be swindled of their hard earned money.
Unregistered painters advertise themselves by paying door-to-door visits and distributing fliers. Often they are able to win services this way but to the great consternation of homeowners end up doing characteristically sub-standard work that also shoots beyond the budget.
You can read the original article here.
Thanks to continuous planning and implementation against Bushfire spreads, it should become a lot easier for habitats of NSW to tackle the fire. This is important for those living in Bushfire prone areas and living in the wake of the raging embers. Rural fire services, in their official website, have expedited the way to identify BAL (Bushfire attack level) and counseled on how to take care of vegetation.
In an article for the website realestate.com.au, Paul Thornhill deciphers the effect of the Federal Budget on the property market. With $80 billion spending cut anticipated in the next decade, property investors may find their pockets sealed at the wrong places.
For the time being though, spending cuts won’t be too impacting; what with only 1.7% slated for financial year 2014-15. However, freezing of increase in family tax benefit may have an implication for sure. Another point worth talking about is the survival of the much debated negative gearing.
Many areas will directly benefit from the infrastructure asset recycling program; the West Connex in Sydney being just one among many.
You can read the original article here.
Did you expect negative gearing to stay?
It sounds as music to ears that most Australian municipal councils are listening to public grievances with keenness. There has always been a communication gap between the authorities and the general people, victimizing the latter. Now, thanks to mobile technology and latest app, it should become easier to report problems to local councils, as we find out in this article.
50 children falling from balconies and windows each year is nothing short of a heart-wrenching statistic. What prognoses are looking at here? Let us say even 10 of the injuries are fatal- where does it leave us? Are we ready to nip these special lives in bud?
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