Building with a Boutique Home Builder: Benefits, Expectations, Selection & Building Process
Boutique home builders excel at providing a highly personalised approach, rigorous attention to detail, outstanding expertise, and local knowledge.
As one of Perth’s leading boutique luxury home builders, we’re here to provide you with the inside scoop on what it’s like to work with a boutique home builder in Perth — covering everything you need to know to get started.
- Boutique Home Builder vs. Home Building Company
- What to Expect
- How to Select a Boutique Home Builder
- The Home Building Process
- Start Building Your Custom Home
The Difference Between a Boutique Builder and Home Building Company
A home-building company constructs hundreds of homes annually. Usually taken from pre-designed plans, these companies do not specialise in providing custom home solutions but instead focus on cost-efficient housing.
Meanwhile, boutique home builders are committed to only tackling a select few projects at any given time, to provide these projects with enhanced care, attention and time.
As a result of their different approaches and resources, they each fit a different part of the market. Home building companies can be a good fit if you are interested in having a home that is cost-efficient and can be quickly built but isn’t overly personalised. Meanwhile, boutique home builders offer homes with a longer lead time but these homes are also more bespoke, with added time for customisations and attention to detail.
What to Expect When Working with a Boutique Home Builder in Perth
A fully customised approach
Unlike larger building companies, boutique home builders offer a bespoke approach when it comes to creating custom home designs in Perth. A boutique home builder in Perth takes the time to understand your specific needs, lifestyle, and design preferences, ensuring every aspect of your custom-built home reflects your personality. While cookie-cutter approaches can often save time during the consulting and building process, a boutique home builder understands the importance of having a bespoke space that is truly your own.
Outstanding communication
When you work with a boutique builder in Perth you have the opportunity to work directly with the director. From consultation to handover, you are provided with a clear understanding of who is responsible for your project, with a reliable single contact to keep you informed at every stage.
With home building companies, this level of accountability and communication can become muddied, as your project and point-of-contact moves between upper, middle and lower management levels.
High quality materials and finishes
Part of what makes boutique home builders stand out is their commitment to the quality of their projects. When you work with a boutique builder in Perth you can expect the highest quality finish for your custom home design.
Minimalist high-end cabinetry comes together with a central stone island in our Salter Point home where the material choice amplifies this home’s elegant design.
Attention to detail
With a small, dedicated team focusing on your project, you can rest easy knowing any important details won’t be overlooked. Unlike home building companies, a boutique home builder only has a select few projects that they are diligently focusing on at a time. This means each project is given more attention and care, ensuring the flawless execution of custom home designs. A boutique builder in Perth can focus on the finer details larger companies might overlook, from precise joinery to perfectly aligned fixtures.
No stone left unturned. From the full floor plan to the hallway light every element of our Hanlin Street home was carefully considered.
Industry-leading designs
Your custom home should be just that – custom. When you engage with a boutique luxury home builder you get a home that is uniquely your own. A quality custom home builder will create a bespoke home that stands out from the rest of the market and follows the best modern design principles. Balancing innovation with leading design principles, a boutique home builder helps you stand out in the best way possible.
Our Carter Lane is like no other. We aim to do more than follow trends, we set them, balancing luxury and creativity with functionality.
How to Select the Best Boutique Builder for You
Look for a long, local history
Nothing says boutique like strong, highly localised skills and knowledge.
If you’re building a Perth home, don’t settle for less than someone who knows all the ins and outs of the suburb where you plan to build your dream home. When you work with a custom home builder with a strong history of working locally like Trendsetter Homes, you gain the benefit of the local building knowledge they have gained over years and years, including:
- Knowing the best local building materials can bring value and luxury to your home.
- Understanding the WA lifestyle to help provide design suggestions that cater specifically to your lifestyle in Perth.
- Local design knowledge that can positively impact the design choices of your home, whether that’s making your home fit in well with your suburb of choice or making sure it stands out.
- Experience with local resources that help provide accurate estimations of project milestones and successes, as well as utilise resources more efficiently.
Make sure they match your style
A boutique home builder will have a personality that shines through in their project portfolio. Unlike home-building companies, their portfolios aren’t stretched across dozens of different home styles and types, so pay attention to their past projects to ensure they have the style and approach you are looking for.
For example, take a look at our own Trendsetter Homes custom builder portfolio which specially showcases only custom luxury residences, our speciality.
Assess their skills
Boutique home builders stand out because of their exceptional commitment to quality and customer satisfaction. When you’re building your custom home, don’t settle for anything less than exceptional – ensure that your home builder excels in:
- Designing – your boutique luxury home builder should have a portfolio of unique and distinct quality designs.
- Communicating – the personalised attention you get with a boutique home builder is one of the greatest benefits, so make sure you choose a builder who communicates well at every stage of the process.
- Craftsmanship – ensure that the boutique builder you choose has a history of homes that are built to the highest standard.
Some ways to assess a boutique builder’s skills include viewing their testimonials, visiting any potential display homes, browsing their website thoroughly and talking to their team.
The Process of Building with Boutique Home Builders
With over two decades of experience as a boutique home builder in Perth, we have perfected the home-building process from start to finish.
As we offer a specialised custom service, the process for our custom homes may differ from what you expect with a home-building company, with added time for consultation and final touches.
1. House Design
To ensure you have a custom home design is perfectly suited to you, boutique builders work carefully with you to ensure all of your dreams are captured in your home design. At Trendsetter Homes this takes the shape of three main steps.
Initial consultation
Here, we bring our decades’ of experience and expertise and you share with us information about your lifestyle, preferences and personal style. In a collaborative style, we translate your preferences into a custom home we know you’ll love.
Drafting the floor plans
Once we have the initial concept, it’s time to communicate our vision and work to perfect it. We present you with the initial custom floor plan and begin to further shape and meld it into your perfect home.
Further consultation
Part of the boutique builder difference you get with Trendsetter Homes is an unwavering commitment to build custom homes that perfectly suit homeowners. For this reason, we’re happy to continue to change and develop the home as you see fit, with plenty of time for further consulting.
2. Build
When it comes time to build, we take a hands-on approach. One of the advantages of working with a boutique builder like Trendsetter Homes is that your project won’t get lost in the mix. You are granted a designated site supervisor who is present every step of the way, ensuring that every detail is just right in your new luxury home. Right down to even the smallest detail.
It’s more than just building a house to us; it’s about building a home that truly goes above and beyond your expectations.
The Mathieson Avenue block impresses all who pass by with an external design that leaves you in awe.
3. Interior architecture
We understand as gorgeous as the outside of your house is, you’ll be spending most of your time indoors. That’s why we don’t just stop once the build is finished. We continue to perfect the interior of your home with premium finishes and materials that help you make the most of your space.
Work with a Leading Boutique Builder in Perth
We’ve been a boutique builder in Perth since 1997 and loved every second. As a family-owned business, we’ve carefully retained all of our learnings over more than twenty years to continue providing homes of the highest exceptional quality to our clients.
Embodying the boutique home builder difference, the luxury homes we create are like no other, with customer satisfaction that’s second to none. Our team of professionals are the experts at helping bring custom homes to life, working closely with each and every one of our clients to ensure that every minute detail of their new home is just right.
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