Custom Home Design
Custom residential home design tailored to your lifestyle, site conditions and budget. Whether you're building a new home from scratch, renovating an existing property or working with a heritage overlay, we prepare full architectural plans and manage all planning and building permits — so you can focus on the build, not the paperwork.
- Custom New Home Design
- Renovations & Alterations
- Extensions & Additions
- Heritage Overlay Design
- Planning & Building Permits
Our Custom Home Design Process
From your initial vision to a complete permit-ready set of drawings — we design homes that reflect your lifestyle and get approved first time.
Discovery & Design Brief
We start by understanding your family's lifestyle, budget, wish list and timeline, then review the site — orientation, overlays, covenants, neighbour impacts and council requirements — to produce a clear design brief.
Concept Design
Initial design concepts that respond to your brief, site constraints and solar orientation — maximising natural light, cross ventilation and connection to outdoor living. We present options and refine until the layout feels exactly right.
Planning Permit (Where Required)
Not all homes require a planning permit — but when one is needed (heritage, neighbourhood character overlays, tight setbacks), we prepare and lodge the application and manage any neighbour objections through to permit issue.
Working Drawings & Building Permit
Full construction documentation — floor plans, elevations, sections, schedules, NCC compliance reports and energy efficiency documentation — ready for your building surveyor and builder.