Season 2 - Episode 4: Savvy Secrets: Styling Your Home With Budget-Friendly Flair

Unlock budget-friendly home styling secrets from two interior design experts from the industry. Learn all the tips and tricks for creating that display home look, for less.

Joining us is Jess Hodges, Carlisle’s Interior Design Manager who heads up the team behind Carlisle’s breathtaking display homes. Also with us is Hannah Kachel, the founder of Urban Code Interior Design, known for bringing clients’ unique tastes and styles to life.

Season 2 - Episode 3: Dream design, Perfect space: Maximising your block

For first home buyers on a budget, making savvy home design choices is crucial to maximising your block of land. Uncover the tips and tricks on how to optimise your build for affordability and quality with experts from the industry.

Joining us today are Mark Sinnott, a Carlisle Sales Consultant known for perfecting the house and land combination, and Ricky D’Alesio, Carlisle’s Design Manager with an impressive 25-year track record of crafting award-winning homes, specifically tailored for first home buyers.

Season 2 - Episode 2: Affordable Abode: Budgets and Finances

Crunch your financials with the experts. Join us as we explore crucial budget and savings considerations for first home buyers. Explore deposits, government incentives, budgeting, types of loans and more.  

To help us navigate the world of finance and budgets are Janine Armstrong, General Manager of Marketing for Carlisle Homes and Mark Polatkesen, a seasoned Mortgage Broker and Director of Mortgage Domayne.

Season 2 - Episode 1: First-home buyers: Choosing to build a new home

Welcome back to Home Files Season 2!

In our first episode, we’re joined by two absolute powerhouses from the home building industry: Lisa Nightingale, Group Sales Manager for Carlisle Homes and Emily Wood, General Manager for Brand and Customer at Frasers Property – an Australian land developer that creates the residential communities where new homes are built.

Discover the fundamentals for first-home buyers who have chosen to build a new home as we delve into finding a community, Carlisle’s EasyLiving series, and advice for selecting a block.

Season 2 - First Home Building Made Easy Teaser

Are you a first-home buyer looking to step into the housing market and get your very own place?

Tune into Home Files Season 2 launching October 24^th

Join host, Caitlin Judd, as we delve into each phase of the build journey together. Alongside industry experts, we’ll provide you with the information and confidence you need to turn your dreams of homeownership into a reality. Because life’s better in your very own place.

Season 1 - Episode 6: The real story – a customer’s journey

This is the last episode of our KDR mini-series and what a journey it has been!

Joining us for today’s chat is Tina – a very happy KDR customer who recently built a Carlisle home in Melbourne’s bayside suburbs who helps bring everything we’ve discussed during this series together in one easy to listen to episode. Also involved in this chat is Steph Massuger, Carlisle’s KDR Client Liaison Team Leader, who works with clients throughout their entire KDR journey – from first deposit, through to handing over the keys.

Season 1 - Episode 5: Save the planet & your hip pocket

Going green. A very hot topic right now. Knocking down and rebuilding a more energy efficient home can both save you cash and reduce your impact on the planet – if you get the basics right.

On hand to help us understand more about this topic and what sustainability actually means are three industry experts. Con Galileos, Group Development Manager for Carlisle Homes who has over 25 years of industry experience in the building game, reputable landscape designer Mark Browning, and Mandi Kontos, Architectural Lighting Designer from Beacon Lighting, who you may know from The Block.

In this episode, we’re discussing everything sustainability both inside and outside of the home. From building design and materials, to the plants you choose for your new garden, the technology you use to automate your home, and how solar and battery storage can all contribute to a more energy efficient environment for you and for your family.

Season 1 - Episode 4: Designing an insta-worthy home

Where else can you listen to not one, but three industry leading interior design experts chatting about home design trends and style tips?

In this exciting episode, we chat with three highly regarded designers in the home styling space - Interior Design Queen Jen Bishop, also known as the ‘Interiors Addict,’ Neil Sookee, Product Design Manager for Laminex, who has been supplying beautiful products to the building industry for over 80 years, and the talented Interior Design Manager at Carlisle, Jess Hodges, who creates the beautiful and inspirational display homes.   

Whether home styling comes naturally to you, or you find it a little stressful – it doesn’t matter, because our team today will help you pull your vision together and shape what will become the home you are proud to say is yours.

Season 1 - Episode 3: Making home finance sexy

It’s a big topic - cash, money, budgets, and finances – but they are also the building blocks in achieving the vision for your new home. Making the decision to build a home is a huge financial investment, but an exciting one too!

“I wish I had of talked to you months ago” is a common phrase that the experts in today’s episode hear often. Joining us to chat finances is Suresh Kandasamy – Mortgage Broker at Loan Studio who specialises in construction finance for new builds, and Janine Armstrong, General Manager of Marketing at Carlisle Homes and previous KDR customer.

Both Suresh and Janine both know what they’re talking about when it comes to the numbers. They will help get you into your new home sooner by walking you through the entire process, including the best time to have that first conversation about your finances with a home loan specialist.

Season 1 - Episode 2: Designing the home YOU want

In this episode we’re chatting about finding and building your dream home – and what it means to design a home with everything you want that will suit your life now, and well into the future. 

Joining us today to navigate us through the process of finding your dream home and choosing a builder that is right for you is Rebeka Morgan, registered Residential builder and Founder of BuildHer Collective; a business that exists to empower women with the right tools to build the home of their dreams through her podcast and online courses; Lisa Nightingale, Group Sales Manager for Carlisle Homes, who is a wealth of information with over 18 years in the new home industry; and Ricky D’Alesio, Senior Designer at Carlisle Homes, who has been designing homes for over 25 years.  

Season 1 - Episode 1: The KDR journey begins

If you’re thinking about building a new home in place of an existing one, but you don’t know where to start, then this episode is for you.

Anna and Caitlin chat to Lisa Nightingale, Group Sales Manager for Carlisle Homes and an industry expert with over 18 years of experience, and Kosta Mesaritis – Partner and Auctioneer and Jellis Craig Bayside Glen Eira Group to provide insight on the real estate market and the rise in popularity of KDR’s.

Together, we chat about the KDR process from start to finish, including who Carlisle Homes is and what they offer, what a KDR actually is and why it’s becoming such a popular choice, where you can undertake a KDR including finding a suitable block, and the many reasons why you might consider a KDR over a renovation or extension project. 

Season 1 - Knockdown Rebuild Series Teaser

This series is here to teach you everything you need to know about knocking down an existing home and building a new one - including choosing a builder, determining suitability of your block, selecting, and designing your new home.  

Join hosts Caitlin Judd and Anna Mackenzie (aka Lady-Brains) as they chat with home design and industry experts, real customers and a few notable names - to help you feel confident and in control as you set out to build your dream home.