Yarraville home renovations, planned around the cottage

In a single-fronted cottage the kitchen, bathroom and laundry often compete for the same few metres at the back of the house. We plan them as one job. The kitchen gets made-to-measure joinery and integrated appliances so a narrow room reads as one clean wall, and the bathroom and laundry are often combined so there's space for a walk-in shower. On our Yarraville designer kitchen, the layout was reworked for a tight cottage footprint and the cabinetry, made off-site, went in within a single week.

Under the floor, a typical Yarraville cottage sits on timber stumps that have been settling for a century, often alongside old galvanised water pipes. A whole-home renovation is the moment to fix that properly: we re-level floors where the stumps have moved, replace the old pipework, and price that work up front so it doesn't arrive as a surprise halfway through.

Yarraville is in the City of Maribyrnong, and many of its streets sit within heritage overlays. Inside-the-walls work generally has more room to move than anything that changes how the house looks from the street, but we check your property before design and handle any required permit with council ourselves.

With narrow frontages and little or no side setback, deliveries, skips and trades come through the front door or a rear lane. We plan where materials land and how waste leaves before we start, protect the hallway, clean up at the end of each day and keep to normal residential hours. If you're staying in during a bathroom or kitchen job, tell us early and we'll order the work so you're without that room for as few days as possible.