Custom Narrow Lot Home Builds Perth

We begin with a relaxed, private consultation to understand your vision, lifestyle, and goals. We discuss your site, planning considerations, and design ideas, while providing early budget guidance to help establish a clear direction for your custom home. For narrow lot builds, this conversation often centres on how the block’s dimensions, orientation, and surrounding context will shape the design from the outset.

Our design team creates a personalised concept tailored to your brief, lifestyle, and site, including initial floor plans and design ideas for your home. We consider key site opportunities and constraints, refining the design with you until it feels right. On a narrow lot, this stage is where the layout earns its weight, with every room, corridor, and opening positioned to draw in light, create a sense of space, and meet council requirements.

Once the concept is approved, we develop detailed floor plans and 3D perspectives of your home. We work closely with you to refine and evolve the design while coordinating required reports, including site surveys and engineering. This is where a narrow lot home’s finer details come into focus: ceiling heights that open up compact rooms, window placements that borrow light from unexpected angles, and storage solutions designed into the structure rather than added as an afterthought.

With your design and reports complete, we prepare a quotation covering all aspects of your build. We then meet with you to review every detail, ensuring complete transparency and confidence before proceeding. Narrow lot builds can carry specific site works and engineering costs depending on access, soil conditions, and neighbouring structures, and we account for all of these upfront.

Once you’re ready to proceed, you’ll accept the quotation and enter into a Preliminary Planning Agreement. This allows us to progress your working drawings, council submissions, and final site works pricing, ensuring key project details are resolved before contracts are prepared.

We prepare your final documentation and HIA building contract. Once you’re comfortable with every detail, you’ll sign your building contract and construction begins. Our interior designer and specialist consultants will help you personalise every finish, fixture, and detail, while our experienced supervisors and trusted tradespeople manage the build with precision. Your dedicated client liaison keeps you informed throughout. Following a final inspection, we hand over the keys, and a six-month maintenance period ensures any settling is addressed.

There’s no single answer, as minimum frontage depends on the block’s zoning, the local council’s planning scheme, and the design response. In general terms, we regularly design narrow lot homes for blocks with frontages of 10 metres or less. Our design team assesses each site individually and will advise on what’s achievable within the applicable codes.

Every narrow lot home we build is fully custom, and costs vary depending on the site, design complexity, materials, and level of finish. As a guide, our custom projects typically start from $1.4 million, with many builds exceeding this depending on scope. We provide a detailed preliminary budget early in the process so you have full clarity before committing.

Yes, and it’s one of the most effective ways to create generous living on a compact site. A two-storey home build allows you to separate living and sleeping zones across levels, capture elevated views, and make the most of your land without expanding the building footprint. We also design three-storey homes for sites where additional height is both permitted and practical.

Every home we build is designed from scratch around the client’s brief and their specific block. There are no pre-set plans. Our design concepts give a sense of what’s possible, from the bold curves of the Tribeca to the coastal three-storey form of the Scarborough, but the starting point for your home is always a conversation, not a catalogue.

Build timelines depend on the design’s complexity, site conditions, and council approval processes. As a guide, a single-storey custom home typically takes around 12 months from contract signing, while a two-storey build can take 18 months or more. We provide a detailed timeline during the planning phase so you know what to expect.

In July 2026, the WA Government announced proposed reforms to the Residential Design Codes that could lower the subdivision threshold for R20-zoned blocks from 900 square metres to 700 square metres. If adopted following public consultation, this could make over 50,000 existing Perth properties eligible for subdivision for the first time. The changes are proposed only and are expected to enter public consultation later in 2026, with implementation targeted for mid-2027.