Complimentary consultation / Sydney
Talk to the team that designs and builds homes across Sydney before you commit to a plan. The first consultation is complimentary and covers your site, your ideas and what the build may cost.
SOL / Bondi Beach · From the SHORE introduction film
01 / The proposition
Our complimentary consultation is a first conversation about your site and the home you have in mind. We start by understanding what you are after, then talk through what the block allows, whether a CDC or a DA is the likely approval path and what will shape the cost of the build.
Where we start depends on where you are. If you are still looking for land, we give rough ballpark pricing on your ideas and explain what design and construction each cost. If you own the block, we review the planning controls with you and give high-level figures. If you already hold plans, we price the build from your design.
Our architects, interior designers and builders work as one team from our studio in Pyrmont. The advice you hear on design, approvals and construction comes from that one team. If you go ahead, the same people carry the project through to handover.
Why speak to us first
Many owners begin with a single adviser. An architect shows what the site might hold, a builder prices the drawings once they exist and a project manager sits between the two as one more party to brief.
A design and build practice brings those views into one conversation. Because our builders work beside our architects, a concept is priced while it takes shape, which the industry calls early contractor involvement. You hear about cost and buildability while the design is still easy to change. From the first sketch to handover you hold one firm responsible.
How it works
You send a few details and we review them with you before you leave with advice and a clear next step. Most reviews take one to two days, while pricing a full set of plans takes one to two weeks.
Send the address or the area you are looking in, along with your priorities, an intended budget and your timing. A survey, photographs, drawings or approval documents help if you have them.
If you are still looking for land or early in the process, we talk on a Teams call or by phone. Once you own the site and are ready to start, we meet at our studio in Pyrmont.
You leave with clear advice on your site, the approval path and the likely cost. If you want to go further, we send a detailed fee proposal for design services so you can decide with the numbers in front of you.
Where you are starting from
The consultation starts from where you are today, whether you are still looking for land, have just bought a block or already hold a set of plans.
Still looking for the right site? We give rough ballpark pricing on your ideas and explain what the design and the build each cost, so you can weigh up a block before you commit. Our guide to what it costs to build a custom home in Sydney sets out the main cost drivers.
We sit down with you to review the planning controls, check the right planning direction and put high-level figures against your ideas. Our article on what you can build on a block you have just bought explains the steps that follow.
Bring the drawings with the consultant information and the approval status. We price the build from your design within one to two weeks and offer value engineering alternatives where they help the budget. Read how we quote on an architect's plans.
If there is a house on the site, the choice to keep, extend or rebuild sits beside the brief and the budget. We look at the existing house and the controls together and tell you which suits your site. Our guide to knockdown rebuild or renovation walks through the decision.
Explore our work
Bondi Beach, NSW
Completed 2025
Architecture and construction by SHORE, interiors by Tina Kosta Studio. Completed 2025, setting the Bondi Beach record for a duplex sale.
Dover Heights, NSW
Completed 2026
Architecture, interiors and construction by SHORE. Completed 2026.
Matraville, NSW
Completed 2024
Architecture, interiors and construction by SHORE. Completed 2024.
North Ryde, NSW
Completed 2023
Architecture, interiors and construction by SHORE. Completed 2023.
East Ryde, NSW
Completed 2024
Architecture, interiors and construction by SHORE. Completed 2024.
Pagewood, NSW
Completed 2023
Interiors and construction by SHORE, architecture by Tier Architect. Winner, 2024 HIA NSW Housing Awards, Custom Built Home.
Sydney
We design and build homes across Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, the South-Eastern Suburbs including Botany and Matraville, the Lower North Shore including Hunters Hill and Putney, the Inner West and the Northern Beaches around Manly. Our studio is in Pyrmont, where we meet clients once they own a site and are ready to start.
Questions to bring early
No. The first consultation is complimentary, whether we talk on a Teams call, by phone or at our studio. If you decide to go further, we set out the design stage in a detailed fee proposal so you know the cost before you commit.
Someone who can speak to design, approvals and construction cost together, because each decision moves the other two. At SHORE Design + Build our architects, interior designers and builders work in one practice, so one conversation covers all three. The first consultation is complimentary.
Start with the planning controls over the site, then its fall, orientation, outlook and any existing house. Together they decide what the block can carry and whether a CDC is possible or a DA is needed. We review the controls with you in a complimentary consultation and give high-level figures for your ideas. Our guide to choosing between a DA and a CDC explains the two approval paths.
It depends on how far along you are. Before you buy land we give rough ballpark pricing on your ideas, once you own the block we give high-level figures against the controls and when you hold plans we price the build from them. Site access, slope and rock, size, structure and the level of finish all move the number. Our article on what it costs to build a custom home in Sydney sets out the main cost drivers.
Yes. An early conversation brings site access, construction detail, materials and the budget into the design while changes are still easy to make. At SHORE the builders work in the same practice as the architects, so cost and buildability are part of the conversation from the start.
Yes. Send the drawings with the consultant information and the current approval status. Pricing a full set of plans usually takes one to two weeks and we offer value engineering alternatives where they help the budget. We build homes designed by independent architects as well as our own, as architectural builders in Sydney.
We usually review what you send within one to two days, depending on how busy we are. Pricing a set of plans for a build price takes one to two weeks.
Early on, while you are still looking at land or shaping your ideas, we usually talk on a Teams call or by phone. Once you own the site and are ready to start, we arrange a time to meet at our studio in Pyrmont.
You receive our advice on your site, the approval path and the likely cost. If you want to go further, we then send a detailed fee proposal for design services.
We generally take on new homes, duplexes and major renovations with a build cost of about $500,000 or more. Tell us your intended budget when you get in touch so we can say early whether we are the right fit.
The site address or the area you are looking in, your priorities, an intended budget and your timing. You do not need drawings to book, although a survey, photographs, existing drawings and approval documents help if you have them.
Across Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, South-Eastern Suburbs, Lower North Shore, Inner West and Northern Beaches, from our studio in Pyrmont.
Complimentary consultation
