Building Design for your contemporary renovation or new home.
Part of the Jeff Topping group of Building Design businesses.
Coastal impressions was established in 1999, so if you want to renovate or build, we have the expertise to get you the home you dream of!
Coastal Impressions
info@coastalimpressions.com.au
Ph 07 5525 6865
PO Box 736 Tugun Qld. 4224
QBCC LIC NO 66031 J.W. TOPPING
Building Design - Medium Rise
The Design Process
Concept Consultation
Our design process starts off with a $250 in home Concept Consultation, where we talk about what's possible, how to change your home, building costs, council regulations and the process of achieving the renovated home you want.
Sometimes people are unsure if they should renovate or sell. If you're unsure, book a consultation now as we give truthful advice on what's realistic and what's not worth doing.
Concept Plans
Once the consultation is carried out and you're ready to begin your building design journey, we measure the existing home and take photos so we can review your house as we design the new work.
From these measurements and photos we produce a 3d computer model of the existing home which we then adjust to show the proposed ideas in floor plan and 3d.
The Concept Plans are like your masterplan showing what the whole project will like like when complete, even if staged over a number of years.
Working Drawings
Sometimes we need a development application (D.A.) from council after the preparation of Concept Plans. This is usually only triggered by overlays on council mapping which require you to confirm with certain design requirements for the area or lot you are building on.
If you need a D.A. we have consultants we refer you to who prepare reports and lodge with council on our behalf. We deal with all the behind the scenes discussion as council assess and will keep you up to date as the application progresses through to approval.
Sometimes we need to do extra drawings for a D.A depending upon on what and where you are working.
Working drawings are usually the next thing to undertake once a D.A is approved or if it isn't needed.
These are the drawings that the builder needs to quote and build from and which a building certifier approves.
They're like the recipe of how to build the project. We're old school when it comes to these drawings, and calculate timber sizes in most cases, along with performing wind bracing calculations, and details of how it fits together.
Builders love our drawings as they have told us they are logical, easy to read and identify difficult aspects.
Other Consultants and Approvals
We have an engineer we refer you to who can undertake all aspects of whatever engineering needs to be done. Usually it's just designing footings, concrete slabs and any beams that can't be sized easily by us.
We have a surveying company we organise contour and detail plans through, as well as boundary identification surveys.
We can also arrange bush fire ratings (BAL) energy efficiency reports, flooding reports and anything else that comes along that you'll need.
Finally certification is carried out through a building certifier. Again we arrange this and conduct all discussions they may need to get approval.
Call now to book a Concept Consultation or call to find out more!
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New Home Yeronga
The site was a corner triangular subdivision from an established lot. The site dropped sharply from the road on the side street, allowing a lower level floor below road level, and the higher level at the front allowed us to capture city views.
New Duplex Coolangatta
A duplex designed in the late 1990s one night by Jeff Topping over a few home brews. Terraced down a steep hill with cross fall as well, the narrow site is utilised to its maximum. The complex was one of the first light weight timber framed duplexes of its type on the Gold Coast and to this day is completely different to anything else.
Gallery/Project 2
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Gallery/Project 5
NEW BUILD
We use 3d design software where we see the 3d version of what we draw in plan live as we draw. This ensures space works well and things look right.
Gallery/Project 1
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Biography
Coastal impressions was launched in 1999 by Brisbane Building Designer
Jeff Topping.
Jeff had worked for International Resort and Hotel Architects in the late 80s and the turn of the decade.
By mid 1991 Jeff had already launched his own design and drafting business under the name of Orion Building Design, a business still owned and operated by him to this day.
In the early 90's there had been a massive trend towards people buying old Queenslander style houses or "Colonials" as they were so often vaguely referred to as by people.
Now that most of the work coming in was for old homes, Jeff launched Colonial Concepts, and before long was recognised as a sought after specialist design and drafting business for working on old homes with waiting times for a consultation extending into many weeks due to demand at the time.
A few years later there was a growing need for design of contemporary, intriguing and differently designed homes. Standard brick and tile homes in the suburbs were growing tired as were post war homes and those owners seeking a change of lifestyle.
With a family history of beach living dating back to the 1920's at Tugun on Queensland's Gold Coast, Coastal impressions was launched with much excitement.
Jeff has been a very active member of the Housing Industry Association, H.I.A. since 1994 and has volunteered his time with the association's Queensland Environment and Planning Development Committee since 1997, along with being active in representations to councils for changes to planning laws and meeting and corresponding with councils and their Mayors to make building better for everyone.
He has served as a judge of the H.I.A Queensland Housing Awards since 2014 and assists builders and younger building professionals with his vast knowledge of the industry and people's hopes and dreams when building and renovating.
Jeff was awarded Life Membership of H.I.A in 2023 of H.I.A. and honour bestowed to very few.
Jeff is also a timber tragic, loving every part of it whether it be a structural element, piece of furniture, or landscaping.
Having worked on some of Australia's largest timber building projects such as Twin Waters Resort while still employed by architects, he gained extensive training in detailing of timber. He has also been hands on with carpentry, plastering, plumbing and other building skills while labouring for tradesmen in his younger days.
Jeff was mentored by the olden day builders and taught skills long forgotten by many now, and sadly never known by others.
He is also a member of Timber Queensland which is the peak industry organisation for everything timber related in Queensland and therefore has access to the best of the best when it comes to selection, fixing and detailing of timber in your home.
When building or renovating you can be assured you will get the experience you need.