Award-winning custom home builders

A custom home is a truly one-of-a-kind home tailored from the ground up to suit your preferences, lifestyle, location and site. You’ll collaborate with Ecoliv’s team of experts and designers to determine the optimum orientation for your site, design the layout and spaces, and select your colour scheme, facade and finishes.

Dreaming of a sprawling deck for outdoor dining? Or a perfectly configured open plan kitchen and living area? Or perhaps you want to design your ultimate primary bedroom retreat? Working with a custom home builder is the best way to achieve all your greatest needs and desires in your home. Building a bespoke home gives you much greater flexibility than building off-the-plan where you can tailor the design for the way you live, to maximise space, to suit your values and express your personal taste.

The best way to understand custom builds? Explore our featured custom home projects to be inspired by what your Ecoliv built home could look like.

The following key costs need to be considered when assessing the budget for any custom build project:

• Pre-construction fees.
• The construction cost of the custom design.
• Transportation and delivery fees.

For example, to help understand the likely cost of your custom build, the EcoHut 1A design, a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom studio home, starts from $218,000 whereas our 4 bedroom 2 bathroom EcoLiving 4A design starts from $581,000.

When you’re researching to find the best custom builder to build your dream home there are several factors to weigh up and questions you should ask. Can they deliver the type of project you want on budget and on time? Are their materials sustainably sourced? What warranties do they have for their homes? What is the minimum energy rating of their builds? Do they assist with the necessary building permits? How do they reduce their environmental impact? Do you feel comfortable working with their team?

With over 16 years of sustainable home building experience, at Ecoliv we pride ourselves on our excellent open communication, friendly and approachable customer support team and quality homes that don’t cost the earth. Contact us to find out more and visit our display home or watch a client testimonial from our Northcote Project, a custom inner-city build.

By its nature, every custom home is an individual and unique project, and every owner has different requirements. There are several elements that affect the timing and schedule of each custom home project (such as the scope of your project and amount of revisions required). Each stage has time variances and can also be influenced by a number of factors influenced by the final custom design.

Your site will also dictate aspects of collating and documenting all that is required for approvals. Approval times can also vary depending on the complexities of the project requirements.

One of the crucial elements in the overall process is to create clear, open lines of communication between owner and builder so expectations and timings are clear from the outset. This is what we pride ourselves on achieving in every project at Ecoliv.

Your new home should include everything your lifestyle needs and add long term value to your investment. Our optional upgrades can end up saving you time and money in the long run and make your home that little bit more practical and fun to live in, so are well worth considering. Options include carports, outdoor and indoor entertaining units, electric car charging, hot tub, home power and water monitoring, mobility packages and more.