Practical Guides for Smarter Renovations

Explore expert renovation guides, cost insights, planning advice and practical tips to help you make better decisions at every stage of your project.

The ACT takes household energy efficiency more seriously than any other Australian jurisdiction, and it has the regulatory framework to

Canberra’s planning system is unlike any other in Australia, and the difference is not cosmetic. There is no council. There

Outdoor living in Canberra is a two-season proposition done badly and a four-season one done well. The city has more

Bathrooms are the most expensive room per square metre to renovate anywhere in Australia, and Canberra adds its own layers.

Waterproofing failure is the most common defect in Australian residential construction and by far the most expensive to remedy, because

Renovation mistakes are not evenly distributed across a project. A handful of decisions, almost all made in the first few

The Gold Coast is a renovator’s market in a way that most Australian cities are not, because the stock and

Fifty thousand dollars will not restructure a Gold Coast house. It will, however, change how it looks, how it feels

The Gold Coast climate is easy to live in and hard on buildings. Subtropical humidity, intense ultraviolet radiation, salt-laden wind

The Gold Coast has a higher proportion of apartment dwellings than any other Australian city outside inner Sydney and Melbourne,

The Gold Coast has more navigable canal frontage than any city in Australia — several hundred kilometres of it, cut

Apartment renovation in New South Wales runs on a different logic to house renovation. In a house, the constraint is