Renovation Architects Melbourne

Every Melbourne era renovated, priced at feasibility, fixed fee from day one.

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Fixed Fees 35+ Years 59+ Heritage Approvals Registered Architect (FRAIA)

Renovation is the practice's daily bread: taking a house that half-works and finishing the sentence. Not decorating, and not demolition by another name, but replanning, light, structure and services rethought so the home you already own becomes the home you actually need.

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Nevis House consolidation,
Camberwell
Daily Bread

BY Projects Architecture has renovated across every era Melbourne built, Victorian terraces to postwar brick veneers to 1990s apartments, through 400+ projects over 35+ years, under registered architect Barbara Yerondais FRAIA.

35+
Years
400+
Projects
59+
Heritage Approvals
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Altona postwar
transformation
Every Era

Every era,
its own playbook

A renovation succeeds by understanding what it renovates. Victorians want light let into cellular plans; Edwardians want their generous bones decluttered; interwar homes, like our Nevis House project in Camberwell, often need decades of ad-hoc additions consolidated into one coherent plan; postwar veneers, like our Altona transformation, hide fine family homes inside ordinary shells; and mid-century units, like our 2025 Harvey Street project in Malvern, reward respectful reinvention. One practice, five playbooks, all delivered recently.

Cost

What renovation
honestly costs

Across BY Projects' delivered work, renovation budgets have ranged from approximately $250,000–$570,000, portfolio examples rather than a Melbourne price guide, with your project priced at feasibility and the fee fixed before design begins. A renovation designed once costs less than one redesigned on site: replanning on paper is where the budget is protected.

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Harvey Street reinvention,
Malvern
Renovating this year or just circling it?

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Process

How a renovation
runs here

Feasibility

The house read honestly: structure, plan, light, permits and budget weighed in one sitting, with a drawn concept you keep and a fixed fee agreed before design begins.

Design & documentation

The replanning resolved on paper, then documented so councils can approve it and builders can price it without surprises waiting on site.

Construction accountability

The architect who drew the renovation stays accountable through the build, so decisions on site answer to the design rather than the shortcut.

Where your home carries a Heritage Overlay, the renovation runs through our deepest lane: 59+ heritage approvals, with dedicated pages for heritage extensions and protected-property work.

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Common Questions

Renovation questions,
answered honestly

What does an architect-designed renovation cost in Melbourne?

Across BY Projects' delivered work, renovation budgets have ranged from approximately $250,000–$570,000. Portfolio examples rather than a price guide: scope and site drive the real number, and the feasibility session gives you one for your project.

Do I need an architect or just a builder for a renovation?

For cosmetic work, a good builder may be all you need. For replanning, structure, light or anything touching permits and overlays, design authority pays for itself, once, on paper, instead of repeatedly on site.

How disruptive is a major renovation?

Plainly put, substantial. Staging, and sometimes moving out, gets planned at design stage rather than discovered mid-build, and the program we give you is the real one.

Which Melbourne eras do you renovate?

All of them, with delivered examples this decade across interwar, postwar, mid-century and heritage Victorian stock, from Camberwell to Altona to Malvern to Richmond.

Local Knowledge

Useful
resources

Planning Victoria

When renovations need permits.

Victorian Heritage Database

Check your home's status first.

Keeping a renovation on budget

Renovation articles from the practice.

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The first step
never changes

A full one-hour feasibility session with Barbara, concept yours to keep, no obligation.

Renovations planned now build next year; renovations planned next year build the one after. The queue is real and it moves in order.

A full one-hour feasibility session, in person, where Barbara sketches your design live while you work through logistics, budget and planning timelines together, so all parties leave aligned; the drawn concept is yours to keep.
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