THE CONSTRUC T I ON SOURCE AUSTRAL I A three more designs are set to be released in 2022. When Lifespaces Group first approached Auhaus, the design brief they gave was “actually quite simple.” “When you go to market, you need to go with something that’s going to appeal to a large audience,” Grant says. “You have to give the general populace what they’re after.” In this case, that meant every home needed to have four bedrooms, two living areas, a bathroom ensuite, a separate powder room, and an oversized double garage. “That was the basic accommodation that we wanted to see in each home,” Grant says. “From our research, that’s what we found that people wanted.” In the first series of five house designs, Lifespaces Group also asked Auhaus for three singlestorey designs and two doublestoreys. In the new release, they asked for another single and two more double storey designs. Other than that, Grant says, they were hands-off – they let Auhaus freely express themselves. “When it came to the style, we didn’t giveAuhausanyguidance. We wanted them to have free expression. We went to them because we like what they do, so we didn’t want to dictate to them how the homes should look. We wanted them to be free to come up with something that they themselves liked.”
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