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