Building Design for your contemporary renovation or new home.

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.

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.

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.

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.