Architect Ben Caine said many people were torn between good design and building big.
"I get contacted a lot by people who have already been to a builder and been given a design that is too expensive for them to build. Australian housing prices have been unwinding at a serious clip now for close to a year-and-a-half, and it has regulators and policy makers concerned.
I don't understand why the 'average' family needs four bedrooms, a media room, an office plus a handful of bathrooms, especially as family sizes are smaller
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