A mansion, folded into 92 m²
Two bedrooms, a borrowed-space study, two bathrooms, a 45 m² fireplace great room and a garage — under one roof line, on a lot that still keeps its front house.
- House
- 91.18 m²
- 11.0 × 7.5 + 3.1 × 2.8
- Garage
- 21 m² clear
- 3.5 × 6.0
- Great room
- up to 45 m²
- fireplace · 2.7 m ceiling
- Beds · baths
- 2 + study · 2
- master suite
- Plans
- 3
- one fixed shell
- Prefab
- 3 + 1
- road-legal modules + pod
AI concept render from the measured 3D model — not a photograph of a built house.
Keep the moves of a big house. Drop the square metres.
A large house feels large because of a handful of moves, not because of its floor area. We kept the moves and packed them into one fixed shell.
One low roof runs from the garage to the porch. Car to front door: 12.6 m, dry.
Solid spotted gum in a timber-lined porch. The first thing you touch is the best thing we build.
03Living, dining and kitchen in one volume — the part of a mansion people actually use.
04Stone, a linear flame, a desk at one end and a window seat at the other.
05Enter through the dressing room; the ensuite opens off it. Nothing opens straight onto the bed.
06Full-height ceilings in every room, including the bathrooms and the lobby.
07A 3.6 m stacking door opens the great room to a 35 m² private garden.
08Washer-dryer, coats and brooms sit behind one flush wall by the front door.
AI concept render from the measured 3D model — not a photograph of a built house.
One shell. Three ways to live in it.
The front, the roof, every window and both wet walls are identical in all three plans. Only light internal walls and joinery change — which is why the factory can build any of them on the same line.
Drawn from the design geometry. Concept stage — not for construction or approval.
- — Front façade, porch and garage
- — Roof, fascia, gutters and flue
- — Every window and external door
- — The wet spine (ensuite + bath) and the utility wall
- — Module sizes and marriage lines
- — Light internal walls in the great room and bay
- — Kitchen type and position
- — One door (semi-ensuite) in the bedroom bar
- — Joinery
No corridor. One lobby. Every route is short.
The plan is a bar of sleeping and wet rooms beside one big social room. A single 3.4 m² lobby is the only circulation space in the house.
- Car → front door → sofa
- Front door → kitchen bench
- Bed → dressing → coffee
- Guest → lobby → guest room
- Sofa → garden
- 12.6 m
- Car to front door, under roof
- 3.6 m
- Front door to kitchen bench
- 3.4 m²
- Circulation space (the lobby)
- 56%
- Great room share of the floor
Sleep on the quiet side, one wet spine in the middle, living against the garden, and a flex bay at the front.
Drawn for the lots we actually buy.
The shell was sized for an 18 m wide Melbourne block first — a new home behind a house that is kept — and then for a deeper lot with four in a row.
- — Front house kept (10 × 8 m) with its own carport
- — Shared 3 m driveway to a garage on the boundary
- — Rear: 1 m easement + 1 m clear
- — Private garden 3.1 × 11.3 m on the quiet side
Same block, before and after. AI concept render from the measured 3D model — not a photograph of a built house.
White box, timber heart.
The front composition follows the best Melbourne unit fronts — garage, big window, porch beside a projecting wing — rebuilt in the white-cladding-and-spotted-gum language of our 60 m² home.
Twelve views, 30° apart, rendered from the same measured model. Drag, swipe or use the arrows.
AI concept render from the measured 3D model — not a photograph of a built house.
Quiet luxury, 2.7 m high.
Oak, limestone, white joinery, black frames. One palette through every room so a small house reads as one calm space.
AI concept render from the measured 3D model — not a photograph of a built house.
Three plans for the three buyers who pay most for a single-level home.
Each plan answers one buyer's first question. None of them asks the others to compromise the front, the garage or the garden.
A 45 m² great room, a fireplace, a guest room with its own bath, and a garage with a dry walk to the door.
Two ensuite suites at opposite ends of a lobby, and a kitchen you can close when you cook.
A real room with a door and two windows, next to the entry — later a nursery or guest room.
We do not publish prices, rents or returns on this site. Numbers for a specific lot come in a private proposal.
Three road-legal modules, one pod, one kit.
The 7.5 m depth is three 2.5 m modules — the widest load that travels without an oversize permit. 11.0 m fits a standard trailer and a 40-foot flat rack. 2.7 m ceilings keep a loaded module under 4.3 m.
| M1 | 11.0 × 2.5 m | Master, ensuite, dressing (part), fireplace wall | Wet |
| M2 | 11.0 × 2.5 m | Bedrooms (part), lobby, great room | Dry |
| M3 | 11.0 × 2.5 m | Bed 2, bath, utility wall, entry | Wet |
| P1 | 3.1 × 2.8 m | Bay: kitchen (A/B) or study (C) | Wet (A/B) |
| G | 3.9 × 6.4 m | Garage walls + link roof steel, flat-packed | Kit |
- 01Great-room openings across marriage lines are carried by steel portal frames built into the module ends.
- 02All wet rooms sit inside one module each — no plumbing crosses a marriage line.
- 03Windows, fascia and cladding are fitted in the factory; only the marriage-line strips are closed on site.
- 04The plan variants change internal studs and joinery only: one jig set, one window schedule, one roof.
1Screw piers, sewer, water and power set while the modules are built.
2Three modules and the pod lifted over the front house in one day.
3Garage kit and the link roof go up; marriage lines closed.
4Landscape, fences, final inspection.
AI concept render from the measured 3D model — not a photograph of a built house.
The palette of our 60 m² home, one size up.
Materials are chosen to look expensive, age well and be made in a factory.
- Cladding
- White vertical-groove fibre-cement on cavity battens
- Roof
- Charcoal standing-seam skillion behind a slim fascia; one low link plane
- Windows
- Black powder-coated aluminium, double glazed
- Front door
- 1.2 m solid spotted-gum pivot, long black pull
- Porch & soffit
- Spotted-gum battens, three timber blades
- Garage door
- Timber-look aluminium sectional
- Ceilings
- 2.7 m flush plasterboard throughout; 2.4 m internal doors
- Floors
- Wide-board European oak; large-format porcelain in wet rooms
- Kitchen
- Flat-panel joinery, honed stone, induction, integrated fridge
- Fireplace
- Electric linear fireplace in a stone wall (all-electric home)
- Energy
- All-electric: heat-pump hot water, reverse-cycle heating/cooling, solar-ready roof
- Structure
- Steel floor cassettes on screw piers; light-gauge steel frames
Drawn to the numbers a planner checks first.
The plan was drawn against the deemed-to-comply standards of the Townhouse and Low-Rise Code (Clause 55, in force from 31 March 2025). That is a design intention, not an approval — every lot is checked by a planner.
| Private open space | 25 m², at least 3 m wide | 3.1 × 11.3 m side garden off the great room |
| Main bedroom | 3.0 × 3.4 m + robe space | 3.0 × 3.4 m, robes in the dressing room |
| Other bedrooms | 3.0 × 3.0 m + robe space | 3.0 × 3.6 m incl. 0.6 m robe |
| Tree canopy | 10% of site (lots ≤ 1,000 m²), a tree front and rear | Garden trees + front canopy trees on the site plan |
| Permeability | ≥ 20% of the site | Lawns and gardens kept on both lots |
| Garage | 3.5 × 6.0 m clear (car parking) | 3.5 × 6.0 m clear |
| Energy | New homes needing a planning permit: no gas connection (since 1 Jan 2024) | All-electric, electric fireplace |
A product, not a one-off.
Every design decision was made so the same house can be reused lot after lot — that is where speed and quality come from.
- One shell, many lots
- The 11 × 7.5 m shell fits an 18 m frontage behind a kept house, and four times on a deep lot.
- Approvals get faster
- The same drawings, the same standards table and the same answers to the same council questions.
- The factory learns
- One jig set and one window schedule for all three plans — every build is a repeat, not a prototype.
- Buyer choice late
- The plan (A, B or C) can be chosen after the permit, because only internal walls change.
What we do not put on a public page: prices, rents, yields and returns. Those belong in a proposal for a specific lot.
Questions we get about this house.
Why is the garage not connected inside?
A door between a garage and a house needs fire separation and a step, and it would cost the house a wall. Instead, one low roof covers the 12.6 m from the car to the front door, so you stay dry without the internal door.
Why is the front the same in every plan?
Because the front, the roof and the windows are the expensive, slow parts to change — for the planner and for the factory. Keeping them fixed lets a buyer choose plan A, B or C late.
Is the study a bedroom?
In plans A and B the study is a desk built into the fireplace wall — space borrowed from the living room. In plan C it is a closed room with a door and two windows that can be used as a nursery or guest room.
Can the fireplace be wood or gas?
New Victorian homes that need a planning permit cannot connect to gas, so the base design is an electric fireplace. A wood heater may be possible on some lots, subject to council and flue rules.
Which way does it face?
North is not fixed yet. The plan is drawn to be mirrored so the great room and garden side can face the best light on each lot.
How is it delivered?
As three road-legal 11 × 2.5 m modules, a bay pod and a garage kit, set on screw piers and joined on site. It can also be built conventionally from the same drawings.
Are these photos of a finished house?
No. All images are AI concept renders made from the measured 3D model of the design. The drawings on this page are concept-stage and not for construction.
Have a lot that could take this house?
Send the address. We will check the lot against the shell, the garage and the garden before anything else.