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We renovate bathrooms and kitchens across Malvern, Malvern East, Armadale, Toorak, Glen Iris and Prahran. Based in Clayton, about 25 minutes away.
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Malvern is period housing. Late Victorian, Edwardian and Federation homes, many built between the 1880s and the 1920s, with a band of interwar homes further east toward Malvern East and Glen Iris.
These are beautiful houses and they are genuinely harder to renovate than newer stock. Here is what we plan for.
Malvern bathrooms often have ceilings well over three metres. That changes tiling quantities, it changes how a room heats and ventilates, and it changes the cost of tiling floor to ceiling. It is worth doing, but it needs to be in the quote from the start rather than discovered later.
Many Malvern homes originally had the bathroom outside or in a rear lean to. Over the last century these were brought inside, often into a converted sleepout, a hallway end or part of a bedroom. The plumbing frequently runs a long way and in odd places. We find out where it goes before quoting.
Ceiling roses, cornices, skirtings, leadlight and baltic pine flooring. In Malvern these add real value and taking them out is usually the wrong call. We work around them rather than through them, which is slower and needs planning.
Like much period housing, the kitchen sits at the back, often small, often dark, often separated from the living area. Opening it up is the most common kitchen job we do here, and in a period home it needs more care than in a newer one because of what is holding the roof up.
Original plumbing, and sometimes original wiring, behind lath and plaster. We price for finding both.
Malvern sits in the City of Stonnington, and a large part of it is covered by a heritage overlay. Stonnington has some of the most extensive heritage protection in Melbourne.
Heritage overlays are mainly concerned with what can be seen from the street and with the significant fabric of the building. An internal bathroom or kitchen renovation that does not change the exterior usually does not need a planning permit. That surprises people who assume heritage means they cannot touch anything.
Anything affecting the exterior. Changing or adding windows. Extending. Altering the roofline. Work to a front facing room where original fabric is significant. In those cases you may need a planning permit from Stonnington, and that adds weeks to the timeline rather than days.
Before you spend anything we tell you whether your property sits in an overlay and whether your job is likely to need a permit. If it does, we tell you what that means for your timeline so you can plan around it rather than be surprised by it.
If your home is heritage listed and you are told by anyone that you cannot renovate the inside at all, get a second opinion. That is usually not correct.
Ranges, not a single number. You get a fixed price in writing once we have measured.
Cosmetic refresh through to a full renovation with layout changes
Facelift through to a full renovation with a new layout
High ceilings mean more tiling. Long or awkward plumbing runs in bathrooms that were added later. Working around original features rather than removing them. Heritage overlay requirements where exterior work is involved. Older services that have to be replaced rather than reused.
We look for all of this at the quote stage. In a period home there are usually more unknowns than in a newer one, so we tell you honestly where they are and what the worst case would cost.
Full strip out, waterproofing, plumbing, electrical, tiling, cabinetry and fit off. In period homes we plan around what is worth keeping.
Including opening up rear service kitchens into the living area, which is the most common kitchen request in Malvern.
Common where a bathroom has been carved out of another room.
Recent work from across Melbourne’s south east. Where we have worked in or near Malvern we have said so.
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What you want and roughly what it costs.
Free measure and quote in Malvern. About 25 minutes from our base.
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Same team throughout.
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We renovate across Malvern and the surrounding Stonnington suburbs including Malvern East, Armadale, Toorak, Prahran, Windsor, South Yarra and Glen Iris.
The things people in Malvern actually ask us before they call.
Yes. We are based in Clayton, about 25 minutes away. We also cover Malvern East, Armadale, Toorak, Prahran and Glen Iris.
Almost always yes. Heritage overlays are mainly about what can be seen from the street and about significant original fabric. An internal bathroom renovation that does not change the exterior usually does not need a planning permit. We check your property before you spend anything.
Bathroom renovations here start from $8,000. Malvern jobs often sit higher than average because of high ceilings, long plumbing runs in bathrooms that were added later, and the care needed around original features. We give you a fixed price after we have measured.
Yes, if you tile floor to ceiling, which in a period bathroom usually looks best. More height means more tiles and more labour. We measure properly and put it in the quote rather than finding it later.
Yes, and in Malvern that is usually the right call. Original features add real value here. Working around them takes longer than removing them and we allow for that in the quote.
Often yes, and it is the most common kitchen request we get in Malvern. In a period home we check what is load bearing first, because the original rear service wing is sometimes doing more structural work than it looks.
Usually two to four weeks on site. If a planning permit is needed for exterior work, add weeks before we start. We tell you at the quote stage.
Tell us what you are planning. We will give you a straight answer on cost and timing. No obligation.
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