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