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Frequently Asked Questions - New Home Designs
Designing the perfect floor plan involves considering several key elements that range from choosing a well-connected and safe location that suits your lifestyle to optimising land size and orientation for sunlight and privacy to planning a functional house plan that includes adequate car spaces, ample space for living areas and a functional kitchen and the number of bedrooms and bathrooms that suits your household’s needs and preferences.
Budget is also another crucial aspect that makes the home journey of each homeowner with Geelong Homes unique and tailored. It’s important to prioritise essential elements when setting a budget, but choosing a Geelong Homes design means you can take advantage of our standard quality inclusions, which you can then choose to upgrade and customise according to your budget and preferences.
Choosing the right home design starts with understanding how you live now and how your needs may evolve over time. Consider the number of bedrooms and bathrooms your household requires, whether you need a dedicated study or second living area, and how important open-plan living and outdoor connections are to your lifestyle. It’s also worth thinking ahead, will your family grow, will children eventually move out, or are you planning for long-term accessibility?
Discuss your requirements with our new home consultant to find a design that suits your family’s contemporary living needs. A conversation early in the process helps narrow down the right floorplan based on your block size, budget, and preferred inclusions.
We offer a range of new house designs to suit different buyer profiles:
Acreage Range
If space is what you want, an acreage provides all the space for a growing family, storage, gardens or even a hobby farm.
Compact Range
For first-home buyers or people simply on a tight budget, building a smaller home offers a smart and easy way to have your very own home.
Essential Range
The most popular with our clients, perfect for either a short or wide block width.
Terrace Range
Stylish terrace living in a dual occupancy design for those looking to subdivide and build multiple dwellings on their block.
You can also explore our current house and land packages to see which designs are available in your preferred location.
Yes, you can customise a standard home design with Geelong Homes without breaking the bank.
Every build begins with a conversation. Your new home consultant will work with you to understand your lifestyle, block conditions, and budget, and help tailor a design that suits your needs. This may involve adjusting floorplan elements, refining façade options, or incorporating upgrades that better align with how you want to live.
A key part of personalising your home happens at your Style Studio appointment. Guided by our interior designer, you’ll select your internal and external finishes, from cabinetry colours and flooring to tapware and façade materials. This is where your home starts to reflect your individual preferences while remaining aligned with your budget.
Geelong Homes’ Standard Inclusions already provide a strong foundation, featuring quality products such as Colorbond steel roofing, Haymes paint, Gainsborough hardware, Artusi appliances, GWA bathware, Volare flooring, and Floorworld carpets. These inclusions are selected for durability and everyday functionality, so even a base specification home is designed to be ready to live in from day one.
For buyers wanting to elevate certain areas, upgrade packs are available. Options such as stone benchtops, 900mm appliances, soft-close drawers, tiled showers, and façade upgrades allow you to further tailor the look and feel of your home.
Throughout construction, you’ll receive regular updates from your site manager, ensuring any final selections are delivered as planned. By the time you move in, your home reflects not just a standard design, but a version tailored to your lifestyle and preferences.
Knowing whether a home design will fit your block comes down to a combination of site dimensions, council requirements, and estate guidelines.
The first step is understanding your block’s width, depth, and total area. Setback requirements, how far the home must sit from the front, rear, and side boundaries, will influence which designs are suitable. For example, narrower blocks may require more compact or double-storey designs, while wider blocks can accommodate broader single-storey floorplans.
Slope is another key factor. A relatively flat block may suit most standard designs, while a sloping site may require adjustments such as stepped or split-level solutions. Soil conditions can also affect footing requirements, which is why site testing is important before finalising plans.
At Geelong Homes, once your land is titled, we complete a full property assessment. This includes ordering soil tests, surveys, and reviewing any developer design guidelines or local planning controls that apply to your estate or suburb. These checks ensure the design you choose complies with requirements and works efficiently on your specific block.
Your new home consultant will guide you through this process early, helping match suitable floorplans to your land so you can move forward with confidence before progressing to final working drawings.
The best home design for Geelong responds to its climate, coastal location, and estate requirements. The region experiences cool winters, mild summers, strong winds, and, in some areas, salt exposure. Coastal and near-coastal sites may also face salt spray, potential bushfire overlays, and wildlife considerations, alongside council requirements for coastal construction.
An effective design uses durable materials, proper insulation, and well-positioned windows and doors to maximise natural light and cross-ventilation while reducing wind exposure. Covered outdoor areas such as decks, verandas, or alfresco spaces can extend living zones and provide shelter. In pockets like Torquay and Ocean Grove, corrosion-resistant materials and wind protection are particularly important.
Many estates across Geelong and its surrounding growth corridors have specific design guidelines that also need to be considered before you finalise your home plans.
In master-planned communities in suburbs such as Lara, Armstrong Creek, and Charlemont, developer guidelines often cover façade treatments, external materials, roof pitches, garage positioning, fencing, and landscaping. Choosing a home design that aligns with these guidelines ensures your home complements the streetscape and avoids approval issues.
In Geelong’s growth corridors, four-bedroom family homes with open-plan living and a second living area remain popular, while compact yet efficient floorplans are increasingly common as buyers look to maximise space while remaining within estate guidelines.
At Geelong Homes, we assess estate requirements and local planning controls as part of our site review process, ensuring your chosen design complies with both developer and council regulations before progressing to final working drawings.
If you’d like to see how a home can be designed to suit local conditions, you can visit our Arcadia 206 display home at 102 Watercourse Ave, Lara, which showcases a design approach suited to the Geelong region.
You’ve decided to build your dream home and have bought a block of land but what now? You’re now ready to turn your ideas and plans into reality with Geelong Homes! Here’s how:
Meet your new home consultant. Friendly, knowledgeable, and passionate, they’ll help you choose the perfect house plan and provide you with a proposal.
Deposit. A $2000 commitment will get you on your way and finalise your house plans.
Preliminary plans. A set of working drawings will be presented to you to check over before we prepare your contract plans.
Style studio. At Geelong Homes, an expert design consultant will help you select all your internal and external colours, fixtures and finishes selections.
Contract. Your new home consultant will guide you through the MBVA contract details before you sign your new home contract.
Meet your site manager. Discuss the build process and receive weekly updates once construction begins.
Your site manager will also invite you to see the progress at each stage.
Learn about the five stages of your Geelong Homes build here.
Move in! Once your home is complete, your site manager will meet you at your new address where your completed dream home awaits and present you with your keys.
When it comes to envisioning your dream home, we all have a sense of what we like.
Before embarking on your interior design journey, creating mood boards to bring to your Style Studio appointment is a great starting point to visualise how you want your home to look.
“Mood boards are an excellent tool to ignite inspiration for your colour appointments,” advises Mia Steinfort, an interior designer and the coordinator of our Style Studio.
In the Style Studio, you will meet one of our professional colour consultants who will guide you through the selection of your home’s colours and fixtures, help plan your electrical fixtures and fittings, and help you choose from our exterior selections, such as roofing, cladding, brickwork and hardware.
But no need to worry, your Geelong Homes design consultant knows their stuff and will make your Style Studio experience straightforward and enjoyable.
Read more about what you can expect in our Style Studio.
Geelong Homes is a second-generation family business—Geelong and Surf Coast born and raised. We know our region, we know our community, and we know our stuff.
We have a saying here at Geelong Homes, “build every home like it’s your own”.
Our supplier and trade relationships are long-term and built on mutual trust and confidence in building the Geelong Homes way, made with love and made to last.
We understand that building a home is your journey and we make sure you’re always in the loop with weekly communication from our site team with updates on your home’s progress.
Most importantly, quality is everything to you and us. That’s why our quality assurance process involves two internal inspections and an independent quality inspection before it’s presented to you.
And when we hand over the keys, we don’t just call it a day. Our after-build service department is a team of two, Ricky and Carmel, who treat every home as if it were their own and deal with any problems that might rarely arise.
Visiting a display home makes comparing your options and seeing what is possible for your new home more manageable.
To find a Geelong Homes display home near you, find our display locations here to check out the specific time when our display homes open. You’ll also find detailed information about the features and specifications and a virtual tour of each house.
Need more info? Contact our sales team at (03) 5222 5522 to express interest or ask questions about Geelong Homes homes.
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