Why a Queenslander specialist makes all the difference

You bought the Queenslander for its character. You just want it to live like a modern home: open, light and easy to be in, without gutting the soul out of it. That’s the line we work to on every job.

A Queenslander is not a standard house, and renovating one as if it were is how things go wrong. The home sits up on stumps. The internal walls are often single-skin timber, which means a wall that looks like a flimsy partition might be the thing holding your roof up, and the one you assumed was structural might be carrying nothing at all.

Most builders quote these jobs like standard renovations, right up until they open a wall and find out what they’re actually dealing with. That’s when the budget moves and the timeline blows out.

We’ve spent twenty years working on these houses, and only these houses. We know how they’re built because we’ve had hundreds of them open. We know what the council will and won’t allow because we deal with the character overlay on every job.

• Genuine fluency in Brisbane’s character overlay, which we work within every day

• Structural expertise, not cosmetic: moving the structure of the house, not just the surface

• QBCC Lic 154 525 89, licensed and accountable for structural work

• 20 years in inner Brisbane, the same streets, the same era of home, over and over

What we can do with your Queenslander

• Move load-bearing walls to open a closed-off kitchen onto the living and dining

• Open up the floor plan for connected, light-filled space

• Rework wet areas, moving a bathroom or laundry, plumbing and structure included

• Raise and build under to gain a whole level of living space below

• Character extensions, additions the council will approve that still read as a Queenslander

• Navigate the council overlay, including demolition controls and approvals, handled as part of the job