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The Finishing Touch: Choosing the Right Tapware for Your New Home
Building a home that reflects your family and your personal style comes with a host of design decisions. While it may seem like one of the smaller elements of a house, tapware is important for both design and function. The right tapware can help shape the style of your space and influence other design choices as your build progresses. In fact, tapware is often the finishing touch that truly ties a room together. We’ve teamed up with Alder Tapware for some tips on selecting the perfect tapware and accessories for your new build. Plan early The first step is ...
Choosing the right finishes for your design
Interior design is central to making your home feel like it’s truly yours, whether you’re building a rustic farmhouse retreat or leaning into a more modern look. Tapware is often considered a smaller design choice, but it can be just as important as tiles or benchtops. In fact, ...
Healthy homes start with pure water
At The Rural Building Co., we believe a home should enrich the lives of the people who live there. That’s why we’re proud to partner with Complete Home Filtration, Australia’s most awarded whole-of-home water filtration company. Together, we’re making it easier for our clients to experience ...
Modern Country House Design: Blending Classic Rural with Contemporary Elements.
Comfortable elegance and natural elements Demonstrating The Rural Building Company’s nous for holistic homebuilding, this custom country house design and build encapsulates the ethos of the client’s lifestyle aspirations. The Rural Building Company Principal Designer Robert Kirkovski said the brief was to create an escapist retreat to embrace ...
Building smarter to keep property and surrounds fire safe
Be prepared for bushfire season December marks the start of bushfire season in Western Australia, a time when property owners need to be extra vigilant to the risks associated with hot, dry and windy conditions. To lessen the risks in bushfire prone areas, WA builders are employing clever designs to ...
What does work-life balance look like?
Less doing, more just being. Building a home in the country or by the coast is the perfect opportunity to define what a healthy work-life balance might look like for you. If 2020 got you thinking about re-balancing things, you’re not alone. As a result of the pandemic, more ...
Want a break from tradition? Here’s how
A contemporary take on a timeless style Is it possible to love the classic country homestead, but still want to break free of tradition? You bet it is! Take the Evolution Farmhouse, for example. True to its name, this stand-out design is a contemporary take on a timeless style ...
How to bring the vision to life at pre-start
Whether you’re heading to the coast or the countryside, chances are you’re looking forward to a new way of life. A life more leisurely, with time to enjoy your new surroundings, discover new interests, catch up with friends and spend time with the family. You may be planning ...
Who’s afraid of a sloping block?
Building a new home on a sloping block doesn’t faze us, but we can understand why it might cause some homebuyers to think twice. But why reject a fabulous block if you don’t need to? Why say no to views or a prime location just because ...
10 Home Design Tips for a Rural View
Take full advantage of your view If you’ve invested in a block with a glorious view, it makes sense to look for a house design that allows you to enjoy that view as much as possible, indoors and out. But what should you look for when it comes to ...
10 Design Features for a Rural Retreat
Big, bold and adaptable There are some things that just naturally go hand in hand. Like bacon and eggs, footy and meat pies, campfires and marshmallows. It’s a bit like our favourite rural retreats. Recycled brick and a roaring fire, sunsets and drinks on the deck, Sunday lunch ...
Achieving Sustainable Living
Considering the environment and sustainability in your house design is something that will not only make your home feel great, but will also reduce your day to day running costs. A comprehensive way of achieving this is through correct orientation and by implementing a design that is solar passive. Ensuring ...
Designing a Chef’s Kitchen
Consider these 5 elements for your new kitchen We spend a lot of time in the kitchen. Whether it’s for cooking, socialising or doing work, you can’t deny that the kitchen is the heart of all homes. A kitchens layout is very much a question of personal preference but ...
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Looking for home design inspiration? Our display home videos make choosing your new home even easier. Take a virtual walk through our range of display homes from the comfort of your home at a time convenient to you.
We have included a comprehensive range of videos that will delight your new home aspirations. You’ll find the latest design trends and styles suited to rural locations across Western Australia. From rustic rural retreats to classic country hideaways, you’ll be spoilt for choice.
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In The Yalyalup Retreat, the master suite offers true sanctuary, with a pretty outlook to the front garden. The dressing area leads through to the ensuite, where natural light filters in and brightens the space.
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Built using a combination of weatherboards and corrugated metal, our Capricorn Loft design is the ultimate easy-living beach house. Its mezzanine loft and raking ceilings fill the home with light and that fresh coastal air.
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It`s a blank canvas now, but it won`t be long until this slab is home to the Gelorup Classic. We can`t wait to see this build take shape.
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There`s so much to love about Troy`s custom-designed Oldbury home - not least that breathtaking cathedral-style living area.
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Although The Gelorup Retreat display home has closed, it remains one of our most popular designs. Take a 360-degree virtual tour of the home and you`ll see why!
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In this contemporary farmhouse, the supersized alfresco offers the ultimate space to relax, unwind and take in the beautiful surroundings.
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A quintessentially Australian design with a modern farmhouse feel - that`s our beautiful Yalyalup Retreat display home, open now.
📍83 Joseph Drive, Yalyalup
⏲️Open Saturday and Sunday 12.00pm – 5.00pm and Wednesday 2.00pm – 5.00pm
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Step by step, our Daintree Retreat is coming to life in North Dandalup. This magical home has been a joy to build.
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