Founded on first principles
High end. Small scale.
Focusing on custom alterations and additions to period homes, servicing Port Melbourne to Portsea.
Middle Park Residence · on site now
Richardson Street, Middle Park
The position
We do not build the biggest houses in Melbourne.
We build the best-run ones.
Alterations and additions to period homes of distinction, and to outdated contemporary homes — built to an architect’s drawings, or to our own.
We work in the $500,000 to $1.5 million range — a limited number of projects a year, each one run personally by the director.
Read the processThe receipts
You will never have to ask us what is happening.
Selected projects
Six houses in Melbourne’s period suburbs.
Normanby Residence
Normanby Street, Brighton · Michael Fuller, Roy CM · Mango Media
Malvern East Residence
Burke Road, Malvern East · Wellard Architects · Mango Media
On site now
Middle Park Residence
A live heritage project, published as it happens — hoarding, propping, original timber and all.
Follow the buildWhat we stand on
Four values, and the mechanisms behind each one.
Transparency
The diary, the schedule, the invoices and the variations, updated as they happen.
Collaboration
Fortnightly on-site meetings with the architect, minuted and circulated.
Matter of fact
Cost, delay or a bad idea — you hear it the week we find out.
Service
Two post-handover walk-throughs, a warranty inspection, and a documented handover set.
In their words
From start to finish, the process was professional, well-managed, and surprisingly stress-free. The team showed a real understanding of how to modernise the space while respecting the character and charm of the original home.
Recent work
Fourteen rooms from six houses.
Every photograph credits the designer and the photographer. Drag, or use the arrows.
Start a project
Bring us your drawings. We will tell you what it really costs.
We take on a limited number of projects a year so the director can personally run every one.