Route 01
Buy the plot first
Buy your plot, then make agreed stage payments as the housebuilder delivers your Blank Canvas. Budget separately for completing the interior.
Plot purchase → Build stage payments → Interior completion
How Blank Canvas works
From Blank Canvas to a home that is unmistakably yours.
A professionally built new home, handed over ready for you to complete the interior. Choose your finishes, appoint your trades and decide how much suitable work to take on yourself.
Four steps to making it yours.
- 01
Choose your home
Explore the location, layout, handover specification and complete-home budget.
- 02
Plan your choices
Plan your finishes, budget and trades. Selected homes may also offer layout choices if you buy before the design is fixed.
- 03
Your housebuilder builds
The housebuilder delivers the structure, external works and services included in your agreed Blank Canvas specification.
- 04
Complete your interior
Take on suitable work, appoint professionals or combine both. Complete the required checks and sign-offs before moving in.
Your purchase arrangements and opportunities to personalise will depend on the development and when you buy.
The Blank Canvas stage
What’s built. What’s yours to complete.
Your housebuilder delivers the home to an agreed stage. You then complete the interior to suit your taste and budget.
Built for you
The structure and external envelope, with the internal layout, services and external works specified for your home.
Completed by you
The kitchen, bathroom fittings, flooring, decorating and other interior items identified in your completion specification.
Each listing explains the exact handover specification. Check this before planning your completion work or ordering materials.
Blank Canvas interiors
See your starting point.
Explore how the rooms can look at Blank Canvas stage, ready for the next layer of decisions.
Images illustrate the Blank Canvas stage. Your home’s specification defines what is included.
Your choices
Choose the details you’ll live with.
From kitchen cabinets to bathroom tiles, flooring to paint colours, make the interior feel like your home.
The choices available depend on your home’s specification, budget and stage of construction.
Buying your home
Two routes to your Blank Canvas.
The development determines how you buy. We’ll explain the arrangements for your chosen home before you commit.
Route 02
Buy at Blank Canvas stage
Buy the home at its agreed Blank Canvas stage, then fund and organise the remaining interior work.
Blank Canvas purchase → Interior completion
Plan for the complete home.
Understand the purchase and build costs, the work left to complete and the funding you’ll need. Completion allowances are indicative; your actual costs depend on your choices and quotes.
Explore finance and protectionYour involvement
Do it yourself. Appoint trades. Or mix both.
Choose an approach that suits your skills, time and budget.
Hands-on
Take on suitable tasks yourself, such as painting and decorating.
With professionals
Appoint trades, suppliers or a completion specialist to carry out the work.
A combination
Do the parts you enjoy and bring in help for the rest.
Use appropriately qualified professionals for specialist work and arrange the required inspections and sign-offs.
Support
Your home, organised in one place.
We’re developing My Blank Canvas to bring your home information, completion budget and supplier choices together.
Your home information
Plans, specifications, documents and room measurements in one place.
Your completion budget
Organise quotes, purchases and spending as your project progresses.
Products and suppliers
Explore options for completing your home through the planned marketplace.
Confirm measurements on site before ordering fitted or made-to-measure products.
Explore My Blank CanvasExample room information
Floor area · example
21.5 m²
Wall area · example
42.0 m²
Example budget
Planned£18,400
Example progress
Confirm kitchen layout
Illustrative milestone
Talk to us about the finance, warranty and insurance arrangements for your chosen home.
Find your Blank Canvas.
Explore available homes and see what you could make your own.