Modified Floor Plans

We've been looking at display homes for the last 4-5 years contemplating a knockdown rebuild for what seemed like forever. We first fell in love with the open plan designs done by Cosmopolitan and were quite eager to get the project started. Luckily for us, the administrators were appointed before we were locked in, so I guess we dodged a bullet there. Then came Ichijo, their demonstration home was fantastic and one of the first that had the soft close doors displayed. The 7-8 stars rating seemed like a no brainer compared to other home designs. However, they were just getting into the Australian market and didn't have any home designs, display homes or any pricing at the time. So we waited, and waited... When these finally became available, we were disappointed with their limited designs (no open area, very basic designs etc.). The lack of inclusions (site costs & flooring were extra from the base price etc.) also made them a slight premium compared to other builders. Modifications were also going to be problematic since the internal walls were modular. Which bring us to Rawson, we loved all three display homes shown at Kellyville (Balmoral, Edge and Seaview) and their promise of an all inclusive price was unbelievable. In the end we chose the Seaview because the other designs were more suited to narrow blocks and ours had a 15.24m frontage.

Ground Floor

First Floor

The front portion of the plans have been flipped over from the original Seaview 39 design (after the stairs and the garage) to ensure the garage would have access to the alfresco area (instead of the other side to the kitchen). As a result, the Bedroom 5 became slightly bigger and Bedroom 3 slightly smaller (so we decided to make it into a study instead and moved Bedroom 3 downstairs to where the lounge area was. After all there's already a family area, alfresco and home theatre downstairs. There's no need to have three seating area right next to each other). Now that there was a bedroom on the ground floor, it also made sense to upgrade the powder room under the stairs to include a shower. Also had to sacrifice a bit of space from the main bedroom so that Bedroom 4 isn't too small. The main bedroom originally had a retreat area that we think won't be necessary.