Your ideal home in Portugal

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Your ideal home in Portugal

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, Building Plot, House for sale, Living in Portugal, low cost build March 27, 2015

What is your ideal home in Portugal

Many of us are seduced by large homes in even larger plots of land when we are house hunting in Portugal.

We think that the square meterage for the price is a fantastic bargain and in fact it is. So we spend up to our budget and sometimes more.

Having lived here in Portugal for a few years and consequently as I have become older I have spent some time looking at our clients homes and pulling the best bits of these together into an ideal home. My wife and I now have a kind of shopping list of features for our next home.

The land should be no more than 2,000 M2, level and in a sunny location. Located in land not next to a river or the sea. The soil should be fertile without lots of large rocks, not a limestone area.

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Nice open views preferably to the south and west.
The property will have water storage tanks underground for land irrigation.

In the garden will be a purpose built “out side dining room” with wood fired oven, built in barbeque and a sink.

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With space enough for a table to seat 10 people while keeping in the shade.

There will be a detached adega for wine making and behind that a large vine/kiwi covered shaded area for parking the car (no garage).

The house will be a detached 2 bed-roomed 2 en-suite bathroom bungalow with a snug and small dining room, large kitchen and small family bathroom.

Located within walking distance of a cafe/restaurant and a short distance to a produce market.

Traditional, Portuguese looking and built to very modern standards with quality double glazed windows, plenty of all around insulation and a fully fitted modern kitchen with granite worktops and hardwood cabinet doors.

The bungalow will be heated by a log boiler housed in a building close to the house. This will heat the central heating and hot water. A single solar panel on the roof of the boiler house will heat the water in summer. The snug will have a small pellet burning stove so that it is indeed snug without heating the whole house.

All internal floors will be tiled with the dining room and one bedroom having solid wooden floors. The bathrooms will have electric under tile heating.

The cost to build somewhere in the 110,000 to 125,000 Euro range with 30,000 for the land.

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About Castelo Construction Lda

Castelo Construction Lda are builders in Central Portugal. We have 12 years’ experience of working with and delighting clients in Portugal. Tel 00351 927168247 or kelvin@casteloconstruction.com If you need an English speaking builder for renovation or new build work we will provide free estimates, fixed prices and carry out your work to a very high standard. Many of our clients are not in the country full time so rely on our regular photographic updates and written reports. They are always surprised when they make inspection visits. New Construction and Refurbishment of Portuguese Property It’s exciting for both our team and of course our clients to mark out on the earth the site of a new home. We will have been with them during the design process and have spoken to the architect many times so we will be comfortable with what we are about to do. For many clients, this stage is a little daunting as it’s hard to see without experience just where the house is going to be in relation to other things on the property. Once the foundations are dug out the house normally looks smaller than they thought, As the pillars and foundation wall start to go you get a much better idea of scale. You can see with your mind’s eye the location of the kitchen, bedrooms and so on. Once the walls are up and the first floor is in place the rooms start to looks smaller again (something to do with the light absorbing properties of the bricks) once the walls are plastered the rooms look a lot larger and it starts to feel more like the home our clients imagined building. As the build progresses we are involved with many specialist subcontractors and it is our job the get them on site at the right time so that the trades do not overlap and time is not wasted. Once the roof is on and tiled it is traditional in this area to have a dinner on site. Everyone who is involved in the build is invited to share a suckling pig dinner with local bread, oranges and of course wine. This is a great way for the clients to enjoy some local hospitality and meet the craftsmen who are building their new home. We also invite the near neighbors so that they get a chance to see what’s going on (when the house is at a very basic stage) and it gives our clients a relaxed opportunity to make their acquaintance. As we always accompany our clients to choose, kitchens, tiles, bathroom fittings or whatever they want. We can help with translation and of course negotiation! As the house is coming to completion we always have them professionally cleaned so that when we hand over the keys it feels more like a home than a building site. 2 months after the house is finished we are back to check for any small faults that may need attention and of course we are available to help and advise should that be needed. Central Portugal builders