(Process)

Most of what goes wrong on a residential project goes wrong before anyone picks up a hammer, in the gap between what was drawn and what was understood.

(Our approach)

So we close that gap deliberately: staged approvals, drawings that price cleanly, and a director who has been on your site and will be on it again during construction.

Overview of our 6-stage process

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Sketch design

We start on your site, early, with a tape measure and no drawings. Once we understand where the sun lands and where the air moves, we sketch by hand — three or four schemes, deliberately rough, so nobody falls in love with a rendering before the plan is right. You see all of them, including the ones we do not recommend.

Design development

The chosen scheme gets resolved properly: floor plans, sections, ceiling heights, window positions, the interface between inside and out. We build a 3D model at this stage, not to sell you the house but to test it — shadow studies through a full year, sightlines, and whether that kitchen window really does catch the morning light.

Development application

Not every project needs council consent. If yours does, we run the whole process: town planner, documentation, submission, and the information requests that inevitably follow. You get a realistic timeline at the start rather than an optimistic one.

Interior design

Joinery, cabinetry, fixtures, finishes and the storage nobody thinks about until it is missing. This happens in-house and alongside the architecture, because a kitchen designed after the walls are set is a kitchen full of compromises.

Building approval

A private certifier has to approve the house before anyone can start. We coordinate the consultants, assemble the documentation package, and chase the approvals so that you are not the one making those phone calls.

Construction documentation

The drawing set the builder actually works from. Every junction resolved, every dimension there, so the quotes you get back are comparable and the questions from site are few. A director stays on the project through construction — the person who drew it is the person who answers.

(Hear from our client)

"We came in with a site everyone told us was a problem — steep, west-facing, overlooked on two sides. The first thing SeriArch did was spend a morning on it with us rather than showing us a folder of previous houses.
What they drew used the slope instead of fighting it, and put the living space where the afternoon sun could not reach it. Two summers in, we have run the air conditioning maybe a dozen times. The house does the work."

MarlowAlderley, QLD(2023)

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