| Just imagine; you have just bought your dream home | | | | high maintenance garden. Perhaps neither of these |
| online. Now it's not just any house. It has style and | | | | homes are the type that you are searching online |
| panache and is exactly what you have wanted for | | | | for, so it may be that you need to browse through |
| many years. It is neat, two story, elegant, and very | | | | the thousands of properties at where you can search |
| modern. The Japanese garden though relatively small, | | | | real estate property listings. Just by registering free |
| is beautifully landscaped, and demands to be noticed | | | | and submitting all the search criteria for the property |
| with discretion and pride. A few months go by and | | | | you want to view, you can search for a home |
| you learn that your neighbour to the left is planning a | | | | anywhere in Australia. |
| replica of the Parthenon, complete with concrete | | | | Thinking on it, perhaps it is your home, which is going |
| front yard, and Aphrodite set in a large fountain with | | | | to look entirely foreign. |
| water streaming from an orifice near her navel. | | | | The best way to avoid this sort of architectural |
| Then a few days later your neighbour to the right is | | | | surprise is buying a home within a 'master-planned' |
| scheduling a large version of an English | | | | community. Master-plan communities can be seen on |
| 'miners-cottage', with neat flowering cottage garden, | | | | Ozfree Real Estate section who boast at being |
| climbing 'Cecile Brunner's', complete with ubiquitous | | | | Victoria's leading home builder. On entering their site |
| gnomes. Not that I have anything against the | | | | you can visit their display homes online. These plans |
| Parthenon; it is a truly beautiful and awe-inspiring | | | | map out the type of development that will occur on |
| building, but best left in Greece. The English | | | | a site and where, and can establish design standards, |
| miner's-cottage, on the other hand, is going to be | | | | view-sharing principles, landscaping and even lawn |
| very much out of place with its single frontage, built | | | | maintenance. |
| on a much larger scale of course, and with a fussy, | | | | |