The bigger house without moving: extensions designed by a registered architect on a fixed fee.
Book a Feasibility SessionA home extension is Melbourne's favourite answer to an impossible question: how do you get the bigger house without losing the street, the school zone and the garden you already love? Done well, an extension is not added floor area; it is the whole house replanned around how your household actually lives, with the new work carrying the light and the old work keeping the soul.
The classic rear extension, kitchen, living and garden connection rebuilt where the lean-to was. Right when the block has depth and the sun cooperates.
The second-storey addition, right when land is the constraint and the outlook or the plan argues for height. It is decided in section drawings, setbacks, massing, overshadowing, neighbour sightlines, long before it is decided in floor plans, and it is a specialty of ours on tight blocks.
Side infill and courtyard captures that mine space the plan wastes.
On protected streets, the extension that stays invisible from the frontage while doubling the life behind it; our Port Melbourne shadow-line project is the worked example: a hidden storey the frontage never admits to.
A plan that works as one house rather than old-plus-new. Light where the family actually lives. An addition the street accepts, which is what makes approvals move. And cost certainty: across BY Projects' delivered work, substantial extensions have started around $1 million, portfolio examples rather than a price guide, with your project priced at feasibility and the fee fixed from the start.
Permits, setbacks and overlays.
Check your property first.
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