How does someone who works as a Sustainability Practitioner actually approach designing and building their long-term family home?

In this conversation, HOME Method member Shauna shares how she balanced budget, sustainability and her family’s needs in her new build – without unnecessarily chasing perfection.

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Hello! This is Episode 363, and in it, I’m chatting with HOME Method member, Shauna, who has recently completed her new family home. 

Shauna is a sustainability practitioner by profession. So, what does someone who works in sustainability do when creating their long-term family home? 

Well, you’ll hear how she approached her new build with intention, clear objectives, and a pragmatic approach that balanced the realities of her budget and site with her overall goals and wishlist in her newly built home.

In this episode, I talk with Shauna about how she identified her objectives, and worked to create an incredibly comprehensive Design Brief, using the HOME Method Brief Builder Template and Room Notes as her guide and template. 

You’ll hear how she very quickly realised that this wasn’t about striving for perfection – which in fact can be paralysing for many in their projects, and a slippery slope in all the competing demands of a renovation or new build project journey. 

Instead, Shauna focused on what mattered most – identifying her key objectives, understanding her constraints, and making deliberate, well-informed choices to do the best she could within them.

We talk about how she navigated some serious challenges: purchasing a derelict home in a brilliant location, tackling a steep and complex site, managing the project as a single parent, and balancing her values with a realistic budget. 

Along the way she made trade-offs whilst provisioning for future upgrades and created a home that supports the sensory needs of her family.

You’ll hear us discuss how she used a Design-Build builder who handled the design inhouse and how she was actively involved throughout, ensuring she could get access to site and review works as they progressed. 

Throughout the project, Shauna stayed clear on her values, true to what she was seeking to achieve, and used her Design Brief and well-researched preparation to guide her, backing herself to make the best decisions along the way. 

What I love most is how this project has ended with Shauna feeling proud, confident, and content, not only because she’s created a comfortable and functional home, but also now lives in an authentic expression of her priorities and purpose.

This is such a fantastic conversation, especially for those who worry that they can’t do “everything perfectly.” Shauna’s story shows what’s possible when you stay connected to what matters and give yourself permission to build the best you can, with what you have, right now, ensuring you’re prepared and well-researched to realise the full potential of your budget, site and life.

I hope you find this conversation super helpful as you get ready for your project.

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For timeline context, Shauna joined HOME Method in January of 2023 after being a long-time podcast listener.

At the time, she was needing to make some critical decisions in her designer and builder selection and get her project officially started. 

She signed her building contract in May 2024, commenced construction in July 2024, and was in her finished home by April 2025.

Shauna and I recorded this conversation in June, 2025, so she’s had a couple of months of enjoying the results of her incredible project journey!

Shauna’s story is also such a brilliant reminder that even when you know the industry well, or work professionally within it, navigating your own home build can still be complex, emotional, and full of learning. It’s why being informed, supported, and realistic about your goals is so key.

You’ll also hear how Shauna used her HOME Method Design Brief, not only as a planning tool to create clarity about her objectives, wishes and wants, but also as a way to advocate for what mattered to her throughout the build. Having it to refer back to when communicating with her team, helped her ensure she was staying on track and was able to make decisions with clarity and confidence.

If you’re embarking on your own project and want to create a home that feels calm, considered and aligned, without the stress of trying to get it perfect, then I hope Shauna’s journey shows you that it’s absolutely possible.

This is the transcript of my conversation with Shauna about how she balanced budget, sustainability and her family’s needs to create her functional, feel-good new build – without chasing perfection.

Amelia Lee
Well, Shauna, it is so exciting to have you here. I’m so looking forward to sharing the story of you and your new build, because I know it’s going to be super helpful to so many in the community who are thinking about building new, and also curious about sustainability and about some of the things that I know that you specifically tackled in your project, particularly with your professional background, which we’ll dive into more detail as we travel through. So, thank you so much for being here. I’m just wondering if we can kick off by you sharing a little bit about who this project actually was for, and a little bit of a background about how this project came to be.

Shauna
Sure, and thank you for having me. I’m nervous and excited to share. This project, if I’m really honest, was for me. It was a bit of a personal goal for me to be able to actually build a house. I think, a lot of the time, I was received a lot of like, “You’re crazy. Why would you want to tackle this type of project at this point in time? Building costs are out of control.” All of those types of things. But as a single parent to two young girls, and as a sustainability practitioner, I wanted to give it a go. I think I’m a pretty good project manager, and I thought it was something that I actually could take on.

And that’s being honest, it really was for me. But in terms of who I was building it for, was for me and for my girls. We moved up into this area in Lake Macquarie about 10 years ago. It’s absolutely gorgeous place to live. The girls, at the time, were nine and four. Yeah, age gap. So, the eldest was in the local primary school, and I just wanted to stay in this area. It’s a lovely, lovely place. So it was like, “Let’s be here. Let’s build a home that is going to take up us three through to the end of high school, maybe.”

So, it wasn’t a, “This is my forever home.” It was like, this is a home that’s going to be a place for us to spend the next 10 to 12 years to get us through our schooling before we go off and explore the world as either retired or as adults.

Amelia Lee
How awesome. Yeah, I love it. And we’ll get into it in a minute, but you mentioned in your wrap up, when you finished your project, that you’d bought the most derelict house, fantastic street. So it was an ambitious project, for sure. So, I know that you’re going to have lots of wisdom to share from that place. So now, when you joined HOME Method, you said that you’d been using a lot of the free resources. You’ve been listening to the podcast, and you’re now having to make critical decisions in design and build a selection.

I’m curious about what drove your decision to actually shift from the free resources that are available at Undercover Architect to investing in HOME Method?

Shauna
Yeah, I’m a big believer in paying for professional services. I’ve been a consultant. I value my time and I value my expertise, and I value that in others. So, it doesn’t really matter what it is that I’m doing. It’s like, I feel that when people professionalise themselves, I am prepared to pay for that professional service. So yes, at the time, it felt like a really big chunk of money to hand over. I think I did your free course, the little modules, and I could see the type of resources that I was going to get. My financial thinking mind was like, “Well, that seems like really good value to me.” To actually have the checklists and the forms and just to supplement what I had learned. And because I did a lot of my podcast listening in the car, I wanted the notes, I wanted the actual physical resources that I could revisit time and time again, rather than having to prepare those myself.

So yeah, it was really a recognition of the value of the expertise that I was going to have access to, and wanting to pay for that and have access to it over what was setting out for me was at least a two year project, so I wanted to be able to to revisit those resources throughout that time frame.

Amelia Lee
Fantastic. And you’ve actually got a professional background in the property industry. Specialising in sustainability. You and I have discovered that we were actually at Mirvac at the same time. You were obviously in the Sydney office, me up in the Brisbane office, which is uncanny. And I know that when I saw you joined HOME Method, I looked at your name and I thought that name is familiar, but I kind of mentally parked it and didn’t explore any further.

So, I’m curious how you felt your goals and your approach to your project was shaped by the experience that you have in the industry, and particularly around your sustainability expertise?

Shauna
Yeah, a lot. And not always in maybe the way that you would expect or for the outcome that I achieved, I guess. Sometimes a lot of knowledge can lead to a bit of freeze. So, a decision for even more decision paralysis. And I’m still a sustainability practitioner, and I spend a lot of time trying to manage any perception of green washing. So, I’m really careful on how I describe things. So, I recall even when I announced that I had bought this block, and I wanted to put a little overlay on it, but I didn’t want to commit myself to building a sustainable home. Because in my mind, a sustainable home, and I had done it with Mirvac, it was during the time of that thing that at that stage, the nine STAR home down in Victoria… A sustainable home had certain really high performance characteristics, and I didn’t know if I was going to be able to achieve that level of performance for me to be able to call myself having built a sustainable home.

So, I landed on this idea of calling it a more sustainable home. Sustainability is a job for me, but it’s definitely a set of personal principles as well. And it’s probably a reflection on how I live my life day to day, like I try and be more sustainable, but am I off grid and perfect at recycling, growing my own vegetables? Sustainability is sort of as good as I can do within all of the other constraints that I face as a person and as a parent. So it was something that was always very strong in my conversations, and I had to advocate for a lot. Like, I was looking to move, this was before NCC came into effect. I knew what was happening. I’d listened to the podcast, but also professionally, I was involved in some of those discussions around commercial and residential energy efficiency provisions, but it’s something that I had to really hold onto.

Oh, I got a lecture. I got a lecture. And he was like, “I know double glazing is a myth. And these NCC changes, they’re not going to go through”. And I don’t know why I did sit through the entire meeting, but it was abundantly clear I was not going to go with that particular builder. But it was a very important part of my build, and I made trade offs the whole way through, and I really had to satisfy myself with that idea of being more sustainable, rather than fully sustainable, as I would view it.

So, in some of my early conversations, I walked into one conversation with the builder, and the first of the conversation was, “Have you read my design brief?” And he said, “No.” I don’t think this conversation is going to go very well. I said, “Well, let me talk you through my objectives.” And I had those there. I was looking for a more sustainable home, and for me, that meant comfortable, like, no, it’s warm, it’s cool, it’s all of those types of things, and it’s affordable and healthy and resilient. So it was yes, I’m prepared to pay more for things, because I am thinking of this in terms of construction and operation timeframes. I don’t want to overspend now and have an unsustainable mortgage. But I’m also prepared to spread the cost of certain things that I might choose to invest in over the operational lifetime of those things, and acknowledge that I might get savings in the future from that additional increase in cost.

Amelia Lee
Thank you so much for taking us through that, because I know so many people will identify with that concern of if they can’t actually have it be the ultimate outcome, they paralyse themselves in trying to still aim for particular targets and make it work. And acknowledging that you are always balancing a whole raft of priorities when it comes to creating something like this. That’s a big, long term investment, but you’re juggling it with a very busy life and a bunch of other long term views that you need to have about your finances and, as you say, being a parent and all of those kinds of things. And so, I love that you didn’t paralyse yourself with that. I know lots of people would go, “It’s not going to be able to be the thing that I need it to be. So therefore, I’m not going to be able to move forward on it.” They really struggle to gain any momentum. But for you, it’s very clear that you figured out what was super important to you, what could you make trade offs about.

And I think what you’ve done is actually created a fantastic case study of this is what we can achieve in a mainstream marketplace and still make it work so exceptionally well for us, not only in in the thermal comfort and the performance of the home, but in its overall sustainability and how it’s just lifted what the base standard actually is. And I hear those stories about how builders can behave about it. I love that you were educated and empowered

Because you do, you have to go into bat for the things that are important to you. Because, unfortunately, the industry is still lagging in so many ways. So, it’s absolutely brilliant, Shauna. Now, were you always building a new house? Was that always part of the plan? Or how did that come onto the horizon?

Shauna
No, I wasn’t always building a new house. So, this block is one street over from the house that I was living in. I had bought a property when I first moved up to Lake Macquarie from Sydney, with the most amazing views. Like, no one would walk into that house and not just gasp at the most beautiful views of the lake. But it was an older home, so one of the original homes in the area about 1950s, bricks solid, but on this crazily steep sloping block, like the highest grade you could possibly. And that was my first plan, though, was to renovate that house.

Because it was two main bedrooms, a smaller bedroom that didn’t actually have a window to the outside, like it had a window to a sunroom, but not a window to outdoors. It had one tiny bathroom. It had a laundry with another shower in it downstairs, but you had to access that through a very dilapidated concrete staircase. There were concrete issues in the property, there were drainage issues, there were plumbing issues, but that’s where I started. I actually started going down the pathway of getting designs drawn up for what could be achievable on that particular block. And even some of the demolition was going to cost, but the bottom was a main road, and so even managing demolition with the risk of materials falling down the slope, it just made it incredibly expensive and complex. And ultimately, it came down to, I couldn’t access enough. I had a lot of equity in the property, but I couldn’t actually access the funds to finance the renovation. So then, it came down to, well, to get the house that you want for your girls, which is, like, these girls are going to need more space. They’re going to need a bigger bathroom. It was try and buy another house.

And it was a good time in the property market. There had been a big increase. And I am a little bit of, let’s say, a close watcher of the real estate market. There’s not many home opens around here that I haven’t been to. And I really like it. It’s fun for me, it’s like a hobby. I wasn’t able to secure two properties at the prices I was prepared to pay for them. And then it was just like, I’m not going to be able to buy. I just couldn’t bridge the gap. There was this $200,000-$300,000 gap between what I could afford and what I actually wanted. And so then, the plan emerged to, “Okay, well, what about build?” And I wasn’t terrified by that idea. And this house, I shared, the fact was, yeah, one street over.

Everyone knew this house was, like, the derelict house, and it came on the market, and it just felt like this could be it. So, I went into the auction process with a really informed price in my head, and I think I spent $7,000 over what I was prepared to spend to secure it, and started there that home building journey.

Amelia Lee
Yeah, and it was definitely a derelict house, wasn’t it? But the most incredible outlook.

Shauna
It’s beautiful. And I still struggle, from a sustainability perspective, with knocking that house down. I think, once you actually got all of the rubbish out and stripped it back down to the timbers, gosh, they were nice timbers… And they were recovered, and they were reused as much as possible.

That was part of my demolition contracting and the council waste management program. But maybe I could have kept some of that, but I don’t think I would have ended up where I am if I had taken that approach.

Amelia Lee
No, I understand, it is always a juggle and a balance of those things. So, I’m wondering if you can think back to before you began. We were looking at your onboarding form from when you joined back in 2023, and we always ask the question of what are you most nervous about when you think about embarking on your project? You told us that you were worried about making the wrong decision for your family, that you don’t have enough money, that you won’t have a finished home, that it’ll take too long, or you’ll miss something important out of the home.

Can you think back to that time and how you were feeling as you dived in? And I can imagine a lot of people listening to this going, “Well, she’s inside the property industry. Surely this is going to be a piece of cake for her.” How were you feeling about that, navigating that project?

Shauna
Yeah, as I said, you’d shared those insight with me just just a few minutes ago, and it was a wonderful point of reflection. I consider myself a good project manager. I’m good at contracts and contractor negotiation and contractor management. I do that professionally. Yes, I had some sustainability knowledge, and I had contacts in the industry as well. But I was also pursuing this as a single parent, the only source of income into the household. So yeah, I was nervous that I might end up making a bad financial decision. If it did go pear shaped, that would be something that I would have to recover from in terms of the financial position of myself and my family. But I was also pretty confident that it was the right decision.

Shauna  18:45

I had lots of spreadsheets about what I thought things were going to cost. What I thought was a really realistic time frame, two years from settlement to being in the home, I thought I had a really realistic budget. And I was really transparent with my budget in all of my conversations. So it was like, if I can get it in these boundaries, which I reckon I can, I’m prepared to give it a shot. But I also didn’t really have a fallback plan. Okay, so it was like, I have to build a house because I’ve bought the block of land, and I’ve knocked a house down, and I’ve actually just got to deliver that, and I did, and I’m really proud of it.

No, I didn’t achieve my timeline. I was four months over, but that was because of me. That was 100% because of me, and grossly over estimating how much time I actually did have available to do the level of involvement that I wanted to have in the project. So, to make the decisions, to engage with the different suppliers. And yeah, I don’t know why I thought I had a lot of time, but I really didn’t. Then, yeah, I didn’t have enough money. I had a plan. So, I had a reserve of cash from the sale of the home. So, I was paying for most of the home myself, so I didn’t need to get a bank involved. But I had already had a conversation with my broker, and I know that was one of the things that you’ve recommended in your pods and the course is know what you can actually access should you need to access it. And it turned out I did need to access it. The last two project progress payments, I let the bank pay so that then I could keep some reserves for all of those things that need to happen.

So, I ended up bang on where I expected to be in terms of total mortgage at the end of the project. But what I didn’t get in that is a swimming pool.

Amelia Lee
Okay.

Shauna
And that was a big sacrifice, because that was a big part of what my girls wanted out of this, was that you will have a swimming pool. And they will have a swimming pool, just maybe in the next year or two, and not as they move in.

In terms of missing something important, yeah, the girls would say the swimming pool was important. But I don’t think I traded anything else off too much, that I don’t have an intention of getting at some point in time in the future.

Amelia Lee
Yeah, and this is the thing, and you will have heard me say this, we can always feel like when we’re navigating building something that’s a long term home like this, that this is going to be the last money that we ever spend on this house. And you’re always maxing out what you can fund it based on what you feel is the most that you can financially afford without crippling yourself. And yet, situations change over, and it doesn’t actually take a long time once the project is complete and you’ve moved back in for the dust to settle and for then there to be opportunity to have some bandwidth to think about, okay, well, if we did want to do some more work to this place, or we wanted to do something ,like you’re talking about adding the pool and those kinds of things, oftentimes, your own financial situation can have adjusted slightly because you might be a little bit further on in your career. Or there’s all sorts of things that can open up and opportunities that can present themselves.

And so, yeah, I think a lot of people, they struggle because they want to get it all right, right up front, and really find the delayed gratification difficult. And I think that you’ve been really clever about this in making sure that you were achieving the core fundamentals of what you needed to make the home livable and comfortable, and then knowing that you would have scope to be able to add those things down the track. So, yeah, I think it’s a really great way to approach it.

Shauna
It’s pragmatic, but it was also essential. So, there were some things that it was just like, I don’t have solar panels on here yet, but I also didn’t want the builder to be the one putting my solar panels on. I wanted to manage that, and that’s where it’s like, I probably know too much.

I wanted to set up the financial mechanisms for my solar system to work best for me. And I was like, I can do that after, I do have the cash reserves, and I’ll take control of that myself.

Amelia Lee
Now, you’ve shared your design brief with me, which was based on the HOME Method brief builder structure, and you’ve got the sections, and then you’ve added specific information that were regarding your site, your aesthetic preferences, some other really fantastic, thorough details in there. Before we jumped on to record, you said to me that the one that you shared with me, I think, was your fifth iteration. I’m curious how you went through the process of preparing it, and how you actually found preparing it to create clarity for yourself?

And you talk about that fifth version, how that came to be in terms of as you were talking to more professionals, you were then updating the brief to include more things. Like, how was that whole process of preparing that brief for you?

Shauna
Writing and documentation is a big part of my professional work. With all of my contracts and projects, I’m always working to manage that expectation gap. I want there to be absolutely no gap in understanding, whether the client is looking for and what the service provider is going to deliver. So, very comfortable. Over detailing, perhaps, for some people. Like, it was 15 pages. I think it was always, maybe the first version might have been 11, and then kept building out. But using the design, your prompts to build that out…

When you work through section by section, it doesn’t feel like it’s a lot, because you just work through those different sections and it just in aggregate, yeah, it can be 15 pages, sure, for other people, it could be longer. But I really liked the idea of setting objectives, and that’s a plot I would always recommend people listen to, the one around having those there so that when you are making decisions, you can come back and say, “Yeah, am I compromising my original objectives?” And then it’s like, “No. Am I going to stick with those things? Yes.” So, it was really important to have those. It was really important to break out who the house is for and how they will occupy, because designing for my children was a big part of that. We were a neurodivergent household, is probably the best way to describe it. And I designed specifically for the different sensory needs of different family members.

And so, being clear that that person, they didn’t want morning sun in their room. And so, there was a reason why I was saying that that was the location. They said yes. From a design perspective, it was quite good the way I wanted to orient the house, because it did deliver both, some passive solar design principles, but also delivered against some sensory needs of the household. And so, being able to really sit down and put things like that into the design brief, so that you can be quite clear. And as I said, there was a point where during the build, the plumber had roughed in a pipe in the bedroom wall incorrectly against my youngest bed head, and they had also installed an exhaust fan in the eaves outside of her bedroom window. Like, “The reason I’m asking, well, A) the plumbing roughing was in the wrong place.” But when they put that exhaust fan, and I said, “Go back to my brief. Having a really quiet place for this particular child is critically important. She cannot have a pipe in her bedroom in the same wall that I’ve set up acoustic insulation in, and you’ve gone and run a pipe through it, or you’ve put a kitchen exhaust fan vent outside of a window that I’ve said is going to be open a lot of the time.” So, having that information there was really good.

I love the idea of exploring what I liked about my previous homes and how we wanted to carry that forward. So, one of the things I loved about my immediately prior home was it was a big brick home, and it had that density of feeling like you felt held by the home. And I wanted to have that same feeling achieved through insulation in this home. So, yeah, it was being able to communicate to the people that I was having conversations with about what I knew about the site in terms of planning, they didn’t need to go and do that.

And I’d done the work around the BAL ratings and the like. Yeah, I felt it was really helpful for me to get my ideas and my understanding on the page, and even room by room. Like, in this room, I want these things. And I think when that went to a designer, I mean, it was a lot easier for them to go, “Okay, well, you can actually only assemble the pieces of this puzzle so many ways before you end up at this particular design.” So it was, yeah, really, really helpful process. And I enjoyed it.

Amelia Lee
Yeah, that’s fantastic. And I mean, did you find that it elicited thinking about things that forced you to make calls on stuff so that you could then have a better clarity about what you’re going to be asking of your team as you navigated forward? I mean, I think that a lot of people working through that process step by step, and ask, interrogating themselves of okay, what am I really seeking? What are the outcomes that I want to achieve, room by room, space by space? Then help you shortcut a lot of those conversations in that navigating those conversations with your team?

Shauna
I did find having my perspective down on paper very, very helpful. I think a lot of people found it a bit overwhelming that they were being greeted by someone who had done that much thinking about their projects. I’d say the builders that I talked to, different perspectives. So I’m like, “Have you read it?” “No.” Others were like, “Wow. Like, that’s great that you are so clear on what it is that you’re looking to get out of your project.” I did have to refer people back to it, so, things like having a walk-in pantry, like, a butler’s pantry, I didn’t want that. But you would get, there’s a lot of typical off the shelf.

Or everyone assumes that, of course, you want that in your home. And it’s like, “Well, actually, no.” Or if I’m going to make a trade off like that, that’s the things that I’m thinking about when I’m going to make a trade off, and directing them towards that, rather than, perhaps the things that they’re used to people thinking about when they’re making trade offs. So, yeah, I send it to my family as well to say, “Well, this is what I’m shooting for. This is what I’m trying to achieve.”

I think it’s always good to have good documentation.

Amelia Lee
And I was going to ask you how you checked in on it as your project progressed, because part of the reason that I teach you to create this brief is so that you do have somewhere to come back to, and you’ve got something that’s documented to refer your team back to, so everybody can remember what you’re actually seeking to achieve. And if something does change, then there’s actually a change management process that happens through the project, because you’ve got it written in the first place. It’s not just assumptions that get made verbally in conversations or somebody forgetting or reinterpreting something in a meeting.

So, I love that, you cited that example of being able to stand on site and call them on the plumbing and the exhaust fan and say, “Look, hey, the brief was very clear about the fact that this needed to be something different.” And did you find that there were things that you needed to go back and remind yourself of as you were navigating the project? Or once you had that written down, you had a lot of clarity and you felt stayed fairly true to it?

Shauna
I think I stayed really true to it. And that’s probably very much my personality, my neurotype, was that I had made that quite clear picture for myself. So, even when I was, say, reviewing a design, I would have that, “What do I want to have in each room?” I go back and look at that and go, “Yep, yep, yep. I’ve got all of those things there.” And if I couldn’t get it right then, I’ve at least provision for it.

So, I wanted to have my multi-purpose room. It could function as longer term parent or guest accommodation. It’s functioning at the moment as a kid’s playroom, and I’ve just provisioned for that plumbing and electrical to have a little kitchenette put in at some point in time. It’s just sitting there behind the wall because it was like, “Alright, that’s probably not where I want to put my money.” But I’ve not limited my ability to do it in the future, same as provisioning for my external blinds. I’m dealing with a lot of north and westerly afternoon sun. I’ve not had a summer in the house yet to see how it fully functions. And I had always planned to put some external shading on, but at this stage, I’ve just got the electrical bag so that you can just tap into it. It’s all wired. It’s ready to go. 

The same for the pool, like all of the junctions are there, even though I couldn’t do it right now, I will do it when I can.

Amelia Lee
Yeah, super clever, Shauna, and it’s so much more affordable when you get it all done when the infrastructure and the dirt is being dug and all the main parts are being included, so that then it’s just a plug and play for all of those additional things. You’re not having to then undo work or dig up stuff. Really, really clever, to be able to factor all of that in.

RESOURCES

Episode 197 ‘How to choose a Design Construct Builder or Company’ >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/podcast-how-to-choose-design-construct/ 

Ellen’s episodes about there being no such thing as ‘perfect’

• Episode 356 ‘Building with Confidence: Contracts, Builder and Selections, with Ellen’ >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/podcast-building-with-confidence-contracts-builder-selections/ 
• Episode 357 ‘Perfection vs Reality: How to Navigate Your New Build Confidently, with Ellen’ >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/podcast-perfection-vs-reality-how-to-navigate-your-new-build-confidently/
  

Clare’s episodes (more conversation about relinquishing the idea of perfection)

• Episode 313 ‘Building a Sustainable New Home: Here’s How to Get It Right’ >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/podcast-building-a-sustainable-new-home/ 
• Episode 314 ‘Design a Home for How You Want to Feel in It Everyday’ >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/podcast-design-a-home-for-how-you-want-to-feel/ 

Access the support and guidance you need (like Shauna did) to be confident and empowered when renovating and building your family home inside my flagship online program, HOME METHOD >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/courses/the-home-method/

Learn more about how to interview and select the right builder with the Choose Your Builder mini-course >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/courses/choose-your-builder 

My free ’44 Ways’ E-Book will simplify sustainability for you, and help you create a healthy, low tox and sustainable home – whatever your dreams, your location or your budget. Access your copy here >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/ways