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There are six family-friendly homes in the running to win the HIA Sunday Mail Readers’ Choice Award and Home & Life magazine is giving you the chance to choose your favourite.
Cast your vote by Thursday, September 21 to go in the draw to win a $500 STRATCO voucher!
UDGING CRITERIA
The six finalists for 2017 have been chosen by judges for the HIA, based on entries that offer the best in a display home. Every display home entered into an HIA award category is automatically entered into the Readers’ Choice category as well. When scoring entries, judges used this family-friendly criteria:
• Does the house emphasise safety and utility for families with young children and encourage family interaction, yet offer privacy when required?
• Is it affordable and genuine value for money?
• Does it adapt to the needs of families as they grow and children move from infancy to their education years and into early adulthood.
• Can they accommodate an extended family such as a grandparent?
1. Bradford Homes’ Stratford
Display Home > $250,001 to $350,000
With four bedrooms, two bathrooms and two spacious living areas, this light-filled home offers style, functionality and architectural appeal. The contemporary facade exudes street appeal, while inside the master suite is treated to an enormous ensuite and children have their own wing of the home to enjoy. Floor-to ceiling windows, a 3.3m high coffered ceiling in the entrance and a raked ceiling in the living zone are striking features.
2. Scott Salisbury Homes’ The Ashby
Display Home — Over $700,001
Set over three levels, The Ashby has an undercroft garage, the main living on the lower level, plus the master suite, and three more bedrooms, a retreat and balcony on the upper level. There are four living zones, plus a study, cellar, a stunning kitchen and butler’s pantry and an alfresco terrace adjacent the luxurious open-plan living.
3. Rivergum Homes’ Lenswood
Display Home — $350,001 to $500,000
Large and luxurious, the Lenswood 337 is ideal for a sloping block, created with zones to incorporate any change in levels which helps segregate areas. There’s four bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, two living areas and two alfrescos, with highlights including the master retreat, 3.6m high entry and the vast open plan kitchen/dining/lounge which epitomises indoor-outdoor living.
4. Sterling Homes’ Monterey
Display Home — Up to $250,000
This stylish, modern, single- storey home offers four bedrooms, two living areas, a commercial-style kitchen with double benches and walk-in pantry, generous built-in storage and an alfresco linking to both large entertaining zones. A highlight is the lavish master suite with its walk-through robe.
5. Oakford Homes’ Acacia
Display Home > Up to $250,000
Designed for easy living, this spacious, zoned home allows for privacy as well as ample space for family time together. It has three bedrooms plus a large study (or guest fourth bedroom for extended family) and two separate living zones and an alfresco to relax in. A walk-in store room and a walk-in pantry are other pluses, and the Acacia design also allows for plenty of backyard space so children can play cricket, or you could add a swimming pool.
6. Metricon Homes’ Savannah 40 Loft
Display Home — $250,001 to $350,000
The two-storey, four-bedroom Savannah design boasts four expansive living areas — three on the ground floor alone — plus a dedicated study. Its spacious designer kitchen is made for entertaining and children have the luxury of a leisure area outside their bedrooms. All four bedrooms are on the upper level, ensuring parents are near their children at night.
