Just to share my experience. I'm not building bungalow but extend my terrace house sideway by about 10'x39' double storey and 8'x20' single storey, and a back extension of 3'x20'. Structure + alum windows cost alone is about rm80k inclusive of 10 points 40' concrete piling costing rm5500. The structure cost seems cheap enough initially. When added porch, fences, plumbing, wiring, tiles, painting, plaster ceiling, grills, doors, locksets etc. in the end total cost without furnishing, curtains, kitchen cabinet, lighting, alarm, cctv, appliances, autogate etc. is about rm175k. This is just cement brick house with cheap white horse tiles and nippon paints. So if you've budgeted rm250k for structure only, be prepared to double that for everything else.

BTW, my house is in Bukit Tengah, Seberang Perai.

This post has been edited by kimyee73: Jun 10 2009, 02:27 PM

That depends on location, construction spec, quality of material, labor rate, profit margin etc. My contractor go for low margin high volume instead of high margin low volume. This will keep his workers occupied most of the time.