Custom Home Builders in Holland Park

Logan Road splits the suburb in two, with Holland Park on the north-east side and Holland Park West on the south-west. Housing followed the tram along Logan Road between the wars, then came a large wave of post-war building, including austerity-standard homes and housing on the old wartime hospital land off Nursery Road. By the late sixties both sides were fully built out, so most lots carry an older house that a new home would replace.

The ground is far from uniform. The neighbourhood plan describes steeper residential areas with traditional character housing and significant ridgelines, and those streets fall hard toward the creeks. Mott Creek runs through Holland Park on its way to Norman Creek, and Glindemann Creek cuts through the middle of Holland Park West, in places straight through private backyards. Creek-side lots can carry flood planning areas, overland flow and waterway corridor mapping, and Holland Park West has considerably more of it than the north-east side.

Most of both suburbs is in the Holland Park and Tarragindi district neighbourhood plan, with a slice under the Coorparoo and districts plan and the new Mt Gravatt Centre precinct plan reaching into parts of each. Some streets are in the Traditional building character overlay and zoned Character residential; many are not. Parts of Holland Park West also fall within the bushfire overlay, mostly as buffer areas. On a typical Holland Park block, the job is fitting a modern home to a fall, often with the pool set into the slope as we did at Harold House.

Harold House is our completed Holland Park home. Its curved and linear forms are anchored by vertical stonework that runs from the street facade through to the rear and into the internal void, and the pool sits within the natural fall of the site. It is the clearest example we have of building with a Holland Park slope rather than against it.

Across Logan Road, Kneale House in Holland Park West is underway, with concept imagery on its project page. Beyond those, the nearest finished homes are our Greenslopes builds a short drive back toward the city, and Dykes House in Mount Gravatt East, a weatherboard Hamptons home with a gabled roofline.

From our Greenslopes office, a second look at a tricky slope or creek line on your Holland Park block is easy to arrange. An architect's design can come to us ready to build, or Flascon can design and construct the home. Both routes are priced line by line, so retaining, drainage and any flood-driven floor height on a Holland Park site are visible as separate costs. We also lodge the building and council approvals for you, including anything the creek mapping triggers. Our process page explains each stage. On site, your supervisor manages the trades and the neighbours, and you meet them at the Holland Park block before work begins.