From Blank Canvas to a home that is unmistakably yours.
Choose a professionally built new home, then complete the interior around your taste, budget and lifestyle. Blank Canvas gives you more freedom than a standard new-build, without starting from scratch.
- 01Choose your home
- 02Shape the design where available
- 03Your Blank Canvas is built
- 04Complete your interior
Self-build freedom, without starting from scratch.
With Blank Canvas, you are not beginning with an empty plot and a blank sheet of paper. The home, planning permission and housebuilder are already in place.
Housebuilders deliver the structure, external works, room layout and installed services included within the Blank Canvas specification. You focus on the part that makes the home personal, its interior.
Professionally built
Housebuilders construct your Blank Canvas.
Personal to you
You manage the fit-out by choosing your kitchen, bathrooms, flooring, and finishes.
Supported throughout
Clear information and practical support help you move from choosing your home to moving in.
Four steps to moving in.
- 01
Choose your home
Explore the development, house type, Blank Canvas specification, available personalisation and indicative complete-home budget.
- 02
Plan it around you
Arrange the appropriate finance and make any available pre-build choices. Selected homes may allow you to influence the internal room layout before the relevant construction deadline.
- 03
Housebuilders build
The participating housebuilder constructs the home and completes the external works, room layout and installed services included within its Blank Canvas specification.
- 04
Complete the interior
Choose your kitchen, bathrooms and finishes, then undertake suitable work yourself, appoint trades or use a combination of both. Complete the required checks and move into a home shaped around you.
The big work is already done.
By the time the home reaches its Blank Canvas stage, housebuilders have completed the demanding structural and external work and prepared the interior for you to finish.
Ready at Blank Canvas stage
- Completed external structure
- Roof, windows and external doors
- Utilities and installed services
- Heating, lights, switches and sockets
- Agreed internal room layout
- Driveway, garage and external works where included
- A secure and weathertight home ready for completion
Ready to make your own
- Kitchen, worktops and appliances
- Bathrooms and sanitaryware
- Flooring and tiling
- Decorating
- Joinery, fixtures and fittings
- Lighting and finishing details
- The overall look and feel of your interior
See the potential before you begin.
A Blank Canvas interior is clean, secure and ready for your choices. The exact layout and specification will vary by home.
Two routes to buying your Blank Canvas.
Blank Canvas homes can be purchased in two ways. On some developments, you buy the serviced plot first and make stage payments as housebuilders construct the home. On others, you purchase the completed property when it reaches Blank Canvas stage.
You do not need to work out the structure yourself. Every listing will explain how that particular home is purchased, what each payment covers and the budget you should allow for completing the interior.
Plot-first
Buy the serviced plot, then make agreed stage payments as housebuilders deliver the home to Blank Canvas stage.
Blank Canvas-stage purchase
Housebuilders construct the home first, and you purchase it when it reaches the agreed Blank Canvas stage.
Buying the plot first can create a significant SDLT saving, while buying at Blank Canvas is often required when the home is semi-detached, terraced or an apartment.
Transparent pricing and costs, always
Before you reserve, the development information will help you understand the point of purchase, and the Blank Canvas price, as well as the likely completion budget required to complete your home and the mortgage options for funding your project.
Do it yourself.
Manage it yourself.
Or mix both.
You choose the level of involvement that works for you. Complete suitable practical work yourself, appoint and manage trades, work with a designer or completion specialist, or combine these approaches.
Hands-on
Complete suitable work yourself and bring in qualified help where required.
Managed by you
Choose the products and design direction, then appoint trades to carry out the work.
A combination
Take on the work that suits you and use professional support for the rest.
Some work requires qualified trades or formal sign-off. Your home's completion information will explain what is needed.
Your home, organised in one place.
Blank Canvas combines property-specific technology with specialist support. Your digital workspace brings together your home’s plans, measurements, budget, documents, choices and progress, helping you plan, price and manage the interior with greater clarity.
Your digital home file
Access your specification, technical drawings and room measurements, including floor and wall areas and indicative lengths for skirting and door facings, to help you plan and price everything from kitchens and bathrooms to flooring, paint and wallpaper.
Budget and project tracker
Build your budget by room or work type, save quotations and decisions, track planned and actual costs, organise documents and suppliers, and follow the milestones that take your home from Blank Canvas stage to completion.
Marketplace
Use your home information to explore relevant products, suppliers, designers and trades. Compare options and organise products and quotations around the rooms and tasks they relate to.
Explore the MarketplaceFinance and protection
Specialist finance may support the purchase, housebuilder stages and interior works. The relevant insurance and warranty route will be explained for each home and purchase structure.
Finance & protectionMeasurements support planning and budgeting. Suppliers may require a final site measure for fitted or made-to-order products.
Ready to find your Blank Canvas home?
Explore available homes or register to hear when new Blank Canvas opportunities are released.
