Interstate interest for cookie-cutter home designs

Work has begun on the first seven homes to be built off pattern book designs. (HANDOUT/NSW GOVERNMENT)

With orders from across Australia and overseas, much is riding on the success of ready-to-build housing designs to turbocharge much-needed supply.

But eager home buyers and builders will have to wait another year to see the finished product with construction on the first seven homes using the designs only beginning on Tuesday.