New home design plans / Brisbane and Gold Coast
New home plans your council can assess and your builder can price
- New builds
- Knockdown rebuilds
- First homes
- Sloping blocks
- Acreage builds
- Dual living
We take your new home from design through to construction documentation, shaped around your site and the council that assesses it. You get a fixed price in writing before we start, a Client Portal to follow progress, and the files as PDF plus editable DWG.
- Fixed price before we start
- Council-lodgeable documentation
- PDF and editable DWG
The problem
You know the home you want. Getting it onto paper properly is where it stalls.
You have the site, the budget and a clear picture of the house. What you do not have is anything a builder can price. Ask three builders to quote from a sketch and you get three numbers that have nothing to do with each other, because each one filled the gaps differently.
Council will not assess a picture either. A new dwelling needs proper documentation: site plan, floor plans, elevations and sections. Until that set exists, the project sits in the folder marked one day.
Some people arrive with a floor plan already sketched. Others know how they want to live and need the design worked out with them. Either way, what you need is a home designed for your site, documented properly and priced before anything starts.
The builder
Cannot give you a real price until the drawings pin down sizes, materials and detail.
Council
Needs a documented, lodgeable set before anything is assessed.
The bank
Wants firm builder pricing, which circles back to the drawings.
You
Are one drawing set away from finding out what your home will actually cost.
Send us your brief and we will scope the set from that.
How we work
Practical execution, from the first chat to final sign off
01
Your brief drives the design
We design around your brief and your site. If you already have a clear idea, we develop it with you rather than replacing it with ours, and if you are starting from how you want to live, we work the design out together.
02
Documented for the people downstream
The set is produced for the three audiences who use it: council assessing it, builders pricing it, and the trades building from it. Every sheet earns its place.
03
One team from design to construction set
Preliminary drawings and working drawings stay under one roof, so nothing gets lost in a handover and the construction detail matches the design you signed off.
Building designer or architect? Both can design a new home. We provide design as well as drafting, and take your home through design, approvals and construction documentation. An architect can suit highly complex or design-led projects where extensive architectural exploration is the priority. The right choice comes down to your project and the experience of the professional you engage, and we will give you a straight view on yours in the first conversation.
We will tell you exactly what your project needs in the first conversation.
Who this is for
Building a new home, one of these ways
Different starting points, same need: a set of drawings that turns the idea into something council can assess and a builder can price.
Whichever way in, the next step is the same brief.
What you receive
Everything between the idea and the slab
01
Preliminary drawings
The layout and form of the home, designed to your brief and your site, and refined with you before documentation begins.
02
Council approval documentation
The documentation your certifier and council need to assess the dwelling.
03
Construction drawings
Additional drawings focused on the construction stage, which your builder prices from and your trades build from, dimensioned and complete.
04
3D renders
When you want to see the home, or show it, before it exists. Available on request.
Working drawings that go past approval. We deliver in two stages, preliminary drawings and then working drawings. Our working drawings combine the council approval documentation with a more complete construction set. Some quotes come in lower because they cover only what approval needs, and when the construction information is thin, the builder has to chase extra detail during the build or price in the uncertainty. A fuller set up front helps you avoid both.
You get the editable DWG as standard. Your engineer or your certifier can work straight in the file. Most firms will not give you that.
The full set, scoped to your project.
How it runs
Three steps from brief to working drawings
Send us your brief
The site address, what you want to build, and anything you already have: sketches, references, a survey, a plan you like. We come back with a fixed quote in writing.
We design, you decide
Preliminary drawings come to you first. We refine them with you, with three complimentary revisions along the way, then document the home fully. You are never signing off on something you have not seen.
Your working drawings, delivered
The complete set arrives as PDF and DWG, ready for council lodgement and builder pricing. Along the way you can follow the project timeline in your Client Portal, so you are not left wondering what is happening with your plans. Queries from your certifier come to us, not you.
Takes about two minutes. No obligation.
Why people trust us with it
The reviews talk about the drawings, and the people behind them
"His expert advice was very positive and cost effective. We Love Our New House"
"Drawings included a preliminary set and a working drawing set with dimensions, levels, elevations, kitchen and bathroom setout, electrical plan, concrete slab layout, fencing, landscape features and pool."
"Fast, accurate and extremely pleasant and obliging. Very pleased I made the choice to go to him."
Tell us about the home and we will tell you what the set needs.
Before you ask
The questions we get every week
Do I need an architect for a new home?
What does council need for a new dwelling?
How long does it take?
What do you need from me to start?
Can you work with my builder?
What does it cost?
Ask the rest with your brief attached.
Get started
Send us the brief. We will tell you what the set needs.
Your idea does not need to be fully developed before you talk to us. A sketch and a site address is enough to start the conversation. We review what you have and come back with a fixed quote, at no cost and with no obligation.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 1300 156 669 or 0468 102 375, or email info@xpressdraft.com.au.
Fixed price. Quoted before we start, and it does not change unless the scope does.
Client Portal. Follow your project timeline online, without chasing us for updates.
A straight answer. If we are not the right people for your project, we will say so.
QBCC 1131941. Licensed, insured and Queensland based.
We reply within one business day. Your details are used to quote your job and nothing else.