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.

Drive through Warrawong, Cringila, Berkeley, Lake Heights, Primbee, Unanderra or Port Kembla and you are looking at the signature Wollongong

The knockdown rebuild question usually arrives at the same moment in a project. You have had a designer look at

A kitchen is the most quoted, most compared and most misunderstood renovation in Australia. Three builders will look at the

The builder you choose determines more about how your renovation goes than the design, the budget or the house itself.

Wollongong is one of the more interesting places in New South Wales to price a renovation, because the same house

Ask ten Wollongong homeowners how long their renovation took and you will get ten answers that are all longer than

Wollongong is a city squeezed into a narrow shelf between the Illawarra Escarpment and the Tasman Sea, and that geography

At the top of the Wollongong market, the money stops going where inexperienced buyers assume it goes. People imagine that

Wollongong’s heritage controls are narrower than Sydney’s and considerably less aggressive than Newcastle’s, but they catch people out for exactly

A granny flat is one of the few renovation projects that can genuinely pay for itself, and Wollongong has two

Wollongong sits in a climate that flatters lazy building. It is rarely brutally cold and rarely brutally hot, which means

The question people ask is “do I need council approval”. The better question is “which of three pathways am I