The Block

When we started looking around for land we noticed a newly subdivided block down the street from our current rental in Jandakot. It was a great location, close to the freeway, backing onto a golf course, good neighbourhood, lots of pluses. The only problem was the size, or the width to be precise: 10 meters!

Not impossible but not easy, the average cottage block is around 12-13m wide so in theory many of the plans could be tweaked to work. The only problem is that most of those have rear loader garages. We hit up just about every spec builder in Perth asking if they had anything off the plan for a 10m block. We found one.

A few builders were happy to work with us to modify an existing plan, but it was never as easy as they made out. The plan we found was a modest 3x1 designed for a block with length as well as width limitations. The Jandakot block was 40m deep so we had a bit more room to play with.

We got out the pen & paper and started sketching. This soon turned to a bit of Google Sketchup work as precision was required. We had to be sure we could do what we wanted before committing to putting an offer on the block. Here's what we came up with: