When you’re researching your options for granny flats in your area, you’re bound to go through pages and pages of websites with images of all kinds of granny flat options. There will be different styles, sizes, quality levels and extras that you’ll need to weigh up against your own wants, needs and priorities. However, it doesn’t matter how closely you look at pictures, it’ll never give you the same understanding of a granny flat (nor who you’re potentially going to build with) as walking through an actual display granny flat does. We are big encouragers of ensuring you get the true, tactile experience of a granny flat before you make your choice (of ours, and other granny flat builders in Newcastle and the Central Coast). Here’s the main reasons why it’s so important…
You better understand what the functionality and flow is really like
Looking at a floorplan is one thing, but physically moving through a space is another thing entirely. Walking through display granny flats can be a real eye opener, not only showing you what the dimensions feel like, but also how it is to functionally live in there. Often, people are surprised by Acrow’s granny flat display homes… However, they’re surprised because they tend to feel larger than expected, rather than smaller. Even if they’re coming from living in a standard or large sized home. We are very strategic with our floor plans and granny flats designs to make our them feel as much like ‘home’ as possible, and have innovative design ideas to keep a small square footage feeling and looking spacious.
It is very difficult to compare two granny flats with the same square footage without walking in and seeing for yourself what a difference design makes to how that space is utilised. Walking into a display gives you that true experience.
Helps to refine your decorative and design choices
When you’re making your design and inclusion choices, you have to use a good amount of imagination to put it all together. We have a variety of samples to show you, which really helps that process. However, when you walk through the display homes you are exposed to a lot of different ideas and design choices that maybe you wouldn’t have otherwise considered, but could be perfect for you.
You’re also able to see how some of your preferences truly work together, which can be validating (eliminating any nerves you have over your choices), or help you pivot your choices to something that works better.
You get an up close and personal view of the quality
Particularly if you’re comparing different granny flat builders, it’s good to see if the way a design is presented on a computer generated image or on a website image matches what you see when you’re up close. In our experience, there are a lot of instances where this isn’t the case for a lot of builders. At Acrow, refining the details is our specialty, and we’re dedicated to providing the highest quality across every aspect of our granny flats. Our display homes are us being completely transparent about what you’ll get, which is why one of them is an actual granny flat we built for a real customer (not just putting our energy into the displays, leaving you disappointed with your own actual build).
You will be able to compare builder for builder, but seeing how finishes are truly completed and what the added extras look like to the bare eye (and not just with fancy lighting on a glossy image).