Custom Home Builders in Morningside

Morningside sat beyond the edge of metropolitan Brisbane until after the First World War, so its houses date largely from the interwar years onward. The suburb has its own railway station and a state school on Pashen Street that has been there since the twenties, and its western edge takes in Balmoral Park and the Balmoral Cemetery. A short distance from the school on Pashen Street sits the heritage-listed Balmoral fire station.

Flood mapping is the first thing we check here. A good share of Morningside sits in the Brisbane River flood planning area and a further share in creek flood planning areas, so on the lower streets the flood level decides how high the floor sits before anything else. The character overlay plays a smaller role than in Bulimba or Hawthorne next door: only small parts of Morningside are mapped, though there are a few pre-1911 building overlay sites.

Most of the suburb falls within the River gateway neighbourhood plan, with a smaller western part in the Bulimba district plan. On a narrow Morningside lot, the design challenge is fitting a family home, parking and a pool onto limited width, which is the problem Pinedale House solved with a central void and skylights to keep both levels bright.

Pinedale House is a modern coastal home on a narrow inner-city lot. Subtle curves soften its form, an open-plan kitchen, living and dining area runs out to the alfresco and pool, and a central void with skylights fills both levels with light. The covered entertaining area includes a built-in barbecue kitchen.

Just over the boundary in Balmoral, Aloomba House has French oak floors and a travertine alfresco beside its pool, and in Norman Park, Beak House steps across split levels on a sloping block, while Morehead House nearby pairs timber cladding with render in a monochrome palette.

On a Morningside block we start with the flood level and the lot width, because together they decide how high and how wide the home can be. Plans from an architect can come straight to us for pricing, or we can take on the design as well, and the itemised estimate shows what lifting a floor or working a narrow footprint costs from the start. Approvals, including anything the flood mapping requires, are managed by us, and at handover you receive the keys, certificates and a handover manual for the Morningside home. Our process sets out each stage. During construction your site supervisor manages the Morningside site and meets you there before work begins.