Fixed-Fee New Home Design Proposal
Send your block — get a written proposal within 48 hours.
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This is your service if
You own or are buying a block on the Gold Coast, in the Tweed or in Brisbane and want a home designed for that site and your family, with drawings ready for a builder and the approval process.
Not quite there yet?
Haven’t settled on the block yet, or unsure what it will allow? Answer that before you pay for design. Feasibility Assessment →
What We Design
The block decides more than the brief does.
Orientation, slope, overlays, setbacks, the neighbours’ windows, where the afternoon sun and the breeze come from. A home designed around those things costs no more to build than one that ignores them, and it lives very differently. We design the house for the site, then document it to the level a builder can price without guessing.
Custom Family Homes
Single and two-storey homes designed around how you live, not a project builder’s standard plan mirrored to suit the lot.
Sloping & Difficult Sites
Split levels, pole homes and stepped floor plates for the hinterland and hillside blocks of the Gold Coast and Tweed. Retaining, drainage and access resolved as design inputs.
Narrow, Corner & Small Lots
Where every setback counts. Design that gets the most out of the envelope and still clears the planning rules.
Knock-Down Rebuilds
Replacing a tired house on a good block in an established Gold Coast or Brisbane suburb, including demolition and site considerations.
Builder-Ready Documentation
Site plan, floor plans, elevations, sections, window and door schedules and the specification notes, so the builder’s price is real and the certifier’s questions are few.
Approvals Where You Live
What a new home needs to be approved.
A new house is assessed against the planning scheme for the site and the National Construction Code. Most compliant designs move quickly. Overlays, non-standard setbacks and difficult sites are where the pathway changes.
Gold Coast & Brisbane (QLD)
A new dwelling that complies with the planning scheme and the Queensland Development Code is approved by a private building certifier. Departures from setbacks, height or site cover need a siting variation or a development application to council. Flood, bushfire, coastal and character overlays bring extra requirements that we design for from the start.
Tweed Shire (NSW)
Many new homes in the Tweed can proceed as complying development through a private certifier where the site and design meet the housing code. Otherwise a Development Application to Tweed Shire Council, followed by a Construction Certificate. Bushfire and steep-land provisions are common in the hinterland.
Energy efficiency and engineering
Every new home needs an energy rating and structural engineering. We design to make the rating achievable without expensive add-ons, and coordinate the engineer so the drawing set arrives complete.
How It Works
Four steps from idea to approval.
Tell us the property and what you want to do. We check the zoning, overlays and the likely approval pathway before we quote.
A written proposal within 48 hours, with the scope and the fee agreed before any work starts.
Concept design around your brief, the block and the budget, refined with you, then the full documentation set for pricing and approval.
Documentation issued to your certifier or council, with requests for information answered until it is approved.
In Their Words
What clients say, verbatim.
“We wanted something modern but still in keeping with our home in Melbourne, and they nailed it”
L.M. · Google
“informed/updated of every single thing in advance”
Asif N. · room addition & permits · Google
“Thank you so much for helping us out as we couldn’t understand the process”
Sampson M. · Google
Common Questions
New homes, answered straight.
What is the difference between a building designer and an architect?+
Both design homes. A building designer in Queensland is licensed by the QBCC to design and document buildings within their licence class, which for us covers residential and many commercial projects. Fees are usually lower than an architect’s for the same drawings. Our designer is QBCC licensed and VBA registered.
Can you design a home for a sloping block?+
Yes, and it is a large part of our work in the Tweed and the Gold Coast hinterland. Sloping ground rewards design that works with the fall and punishes documentation that leaves retaining, drainage and access to be discovered during construction. We treat those as design inputs.
Do you build?+
No. We are building designers, not builders. We design and document the home, and you take the drawings to the builder of your choice, or to several for competitive pricing. That independence is the point.
What do I get at the end?+
A complete drawing set: site plan, floor plans, elevations, sections, schedules and specification notes, prepared to the standard a builder can price from and a certifier can assess with few requests for information.
How long does new home design take?+
Concept design is usually a few weeks depending on how quickly decisions are made. Full documentation follows once the concept is settled. Approval times then depend on the pathway your site qualifies for.
How do fees work?+
Fixed fee, agreed in writing before work begins, based on the size and complexity of the home, the site and the approval pathway. Send the block address and a short brief and you will have a written proposal within 48 hours.
Get Started
Have a block and an idea?
Start with a design made for the site.
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