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EDITORIAL ON INFORM FROM STORM BRANDING WEBSITE: Home builders build brand differentiation with Design

By David Ansett - Storm Brand Design

Uninspired Living

The home building market in Australia is typified by a bland range of home designs, brought to you by a range of equally undifferentiated businesses. Having worked in the space for a number of clients over the past five years, I would define the market offer as affordable = uninspiring. Whilst there is no cheaper way, and perhaps even no easier way to build your own home, the price you pay is a lack of individuality, and poor and dated design quality. A walk through any display village will reinforce the message, as each house you enter feels almost identical from the one before, down to the last display vase featuring splayed bamboo.

These home builders all have their own brands, we have helped some to define them. But when it comes to product – which is surely one of the most defining expressions of their brand – there is no differentiation or translation of their brand into the homes they build and display. It ’s as though they’ve all use the same architect to design their homes and the same stylist to prepare them for display.
But times are changing, or at least the industry is catching up with the times.
 
Inspiration built-in
 
Recently the offerings of at least two Australian home building companies have begun to deliver on the often heard brand promise of ‘contemporary living’. Working with architects of note and ability, Inform Design has produced some great looking houses that feel ‘architect designed’ both inside and out, creating a strong sense of differentiation, positioning their new product at the premium end of their market.
 
The Pod House from Inform
 
The Inform Pod House is a collaboration with Melbourne architect Barnaby Chiverton. The house consists of two pods which can be positioned at different angles, or different levels to suit a sloping site. This is the level of customised smarts that’s been missing from the display home market to date. Whilst the ink on the new design for the Pod House is still drying, Inform plan to have a display house open at Mt Martha shortly.


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