Custom Home Design in Tarragindi

The bush suburb eight minutes from town

Tarragindi's appeal is simple: hilly, leafy streets with Toohey Forest at the end of them, and the city close enough that the commute barely registers. The housing is overwhelmingly post-war, weatherboard and brick homes from the forties and fifties on blocks that step with the terrain. Character protections are rare here, so owners face an open choice between renovating a solid original and replacing a tired one, and both projects are common on the same street.

The slopes are the design factor that separates good Tarragindi homes from ordinary ones. A block that falls several metres corner to corner will punish a flat-land plan and reward a stepped one, and the elevated sites buy real outlook towards the city or the forest. If you are leaning towards replacing the house, our walkthrough of the knock down rebuild process shows what the journey looks like from first assessment to handover.

Gilmore Olive and Gilmore Palms

Our two Tarragindi homes stand side by side on Gillmore Street, each a ground-up custom design on sloping ground. Building neighbouring homes on the same street is about as thorough an education in a suburb's conditions as an architect can get, and just north in Greenslopes, Barradine House extends that local run.

Designing here with us

Every Tarragindi project starts with the block: its fall, its aspect towards the forest or the city, and what the neighbours' rooflines allow you to capture. Then a fixed-price fee proposal, agreed before design begins, and one architect from concept through approvals and documentation.