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Our split-level home designs are crafted to optimize your land and its scenic vistas. We prioritize your lifestyle needs, eliminating the need for unsightly retaining walls, expensive excavation, or overly steep driveways. Our designs are not only tailored to fit your land but also accommodate your lifestyle preferences, whether you desire more entertaining or private spaces in your home. This ensures that you can enjoy the dream home you've always envisioned, regardless of the type of block you're building on.
Sloping blocks inherently promote sustainability by minimizing the need for extensive earth-moving activities during construction. Additionally, split-level homes offer the advantage of providing multiple vantage points for enjoying views and creating secluded spaces for family relaxation due to their multi-level structure. Our split-level designs are meticulously crafted to harmonize with the natural flow of your block, enhancing both aesthetic appeal and environmental integration. This ensures that they not only complement your lifestyle but also blend seamlessly with the surrounding landscape.
Originally thought to have been influenced by ranch-style homes and horizontal Prairie residences, split-level homes were designed to separate public and private areas using short, intermediate levels.
Split-level homes gained traction in the 1950s and reached their peak in popularity during the 1970s, largely due to the widespread exposure they received from the iconic television show "The Brady Bunch." Recently, Australia has witnessed a resurgence in this architectural style, primarily driven by the availability of land suitable for such construction.
Split-level homes enable the creation of numerous secluded spaces within a single dwelling, maintaining a clear distinction between various areas. With careful selection of the design, they also guarantee the optimal utilization of the natural attributes of your property, such as its views and terrain. By harmonizing with the land's characteristics, you can reduce expenses and capitalize on the unique appeal that initially attracted you to the property.
Before building on a split level block, buyers must understand what goes into designing and building on a slope. Many people buy sloping sites without understanding the complexity of building on a slope compared to a standard flat piece of land, leading to more challenges during construction. While many buyers have some previous ideas of how they would like the house to look or function, any alterations to a design must always work with the site. This ensures that the build is cost-effective and makes the most of the existing landscape.
Choosing a design that marries the land and the home will ensure a better building experience and result. Ultimately, designing a house around a site’s slope often means that the buyers end up with a much nicer place that is more sustainable, more functional to live in, and more cost-effective to build. Buyers will have to collaborate with builders to ensure that the split level home design that they have chosen works well with the slope of the land.
Partial Split Homes are designed with one or more small splits, that step with the slope of the site, reducing the need for extra site works including retaining walls that would otherwise be required to flatten the site to build a level home. With a small set of stairs between levels, a split can in some cases provide a more open feel, with higher ceilings ideally for living areas, depending on the slope direction on the site.
Half Split Homes are designed to suit moderate sloping sites requiring half a flight of stairs between floor levels. Configurations include at least three-floor levels, on sites that slope down, up or across the site, producing a two-storey portion to the front, rear or side of the home. These types of split level homes provide good separation of private and living areas with the ability to provide specific zones for each floor level.
Full Split Homes are designed for steep sites requiring a full set of stairs between floor levels producing at least two-floor levels. This results in a two-storey front, rear or side building structure. Ideally, these homes place the main living spaces on the upper floor levels to take advantage of views achieved by elevated living, with lower levels designated for entry, garage or additional bedroom, kids and guest spaces.
