Home Renovations · Dulwich Hill
Home renovations in Dulwich Hill, done properly.
Complete home renovations for Dulwich Hill homeowners by a licensed builder. A typical full transformation runs $180,000 to $450,000, itemised quote, honest programme, one builder from concept to handover.
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Tell us about your Dulwich Hill home.
No sales pitch, no obligation. Here is exactly what happens when you enquire:
- 1Answer a few quick questions. One at a time, takes about two minutes, so the first conversation is about your project rather than the basics.
- 2We call you within 24 to 48 business hours. A builder, not a salesperson. Then we walk your Dulwich Hill home with you on site.
- 3You receive a written, itemised estimate. Real numbers for your home. If the project does not stack up, we tell you that too.
From our clients
Rated 5.0 on Google.
“We had Strava Group complete major renovation works on our property and were blown away with the quality. The attention to detail and overall finish were amazing.”
“Great communication, honest work, easy to work with, highly recommend to work with for any new build/renovations. If you are looking to get work done without worrying about shortcuts Strava Group is builder to use.”
“I highly recommend Strava Group to everyone great workmanship, reliable service, and I couldn’t be happier with the result.”
Complete transformations
More than cosmetic updates.
A home renovation is an opportunity to completely redefine how you live. Strava Group delivers high end home renovations across Dulwich Hill and the wider Inner West, transforming established homes into refined, contemporary residences, managed as complete projects from concept through to completion.
Rather than renovating room by room, we approach each Dulwich Hill project as a unified transformation: layout reconfigurations, designer kitchens, luxury bathrooms, flooring, lighting, windows and street presence, all working together. The result is a home that feels intentional, balanced and built to a higher standard.
Renovating in Dulwich Hill
What shapes a renovation in Dulwich Hill.
Dulwich Hill is Federation homes, California Bungalows and brick semis on tight Inner West blocks, and renovating here means transforming the inside while respecting what the street sees. Here is what shapes a project locally.
Inner West Council
Dulwich Hill sits within Inner West Council. Internal renovations that keep the structure and footprint often need no approval at all under Exempt Development. On the conservation streets, anything visible from the street generally needs a full Development Application, and we confirm the pathway for your property before quoting.
Federation, bungalows and semis
Dulwich Hill is Federation homes, California Bungalows and brick semis, with interwar flats along the main roads: high ceilings, real detail, layouts built for another century. Closed kitchens, dark hallways, poky rear service rooms. Exactly the stock where a considered renovation transforms daily life while the character stays. Semis are always assessed individually, party walls change the engineering.
A century of settlement behind the linings
Federation era framing has usually seen a hundred years of movement, previous renovations and undocumented alterations. We check and rectify the structure before anything goes back on, tie new work properly to old, and detail every junction so the finished walls stay flat and crack free.
Period front, contemporary back
The renovation that works in Dulwich Hill keeps the formal rooms and the facade the street loves, and opens the rear of the house into contemporary family living flowing to the yard. On long narrow Inner West blocks, light from the side and rear is the whole game, and most of the walls involved are structural. We engineer them out properly while respecting how the original house carries its loads.
Wiring and plumbing from another era
Century old homes frequently carry generations of patched wiring, galvanised plumbing and undersized switchboards. A full renovation is the one moment these can be replaced without ripping open finished rooms, and we assess them up front rather than mid build.
A suburb worth reinvesting in
Eight kilometres from the CBD with the light rail through the middle of it, Dulwich Hill values support serious renovation spend, and a well renovated period home is the most sought after product in the suburb. A complete transformation typically costs far less than trading up once stamp duty and agent fees are counted.
The Strava standard
How we build differently.
We build for longevity. That sounds like a slogan until you see where it costs us money. On every Dulwich Hill renovation we run:
The existing structure gets rectified, not covered
Plenty of renovations put new gyprock over old problems and hope for the best. We do a full screw off and re-brace the whole house, tying new and existing structure together so the frame moves as one and future cracking is designed out, not painted over.
Furring channels for a dead flat finish
We install furring channels throughout, creating a perfectly level plane for the new linings regardless of what the old frame is doing behind them. Flat on handover day, still flat in raking afternoon light years later.
Waterproofing is a documented hold point
Wet areas are inspected and photographed before a single tile goes on, to AS 3740.
Blocking installed at frame stage
Extra noggins and fixings go in where vanities, TVs, handrails and shower screens will hang later, not chased in afterwards.
Every new-to-existing junction properly detailed
This is where most renovations crack. It is almost always a detailing shortcut, not settlement. Ours get a proper flashing and movement detail.
Everything photographed before it is covered
You receive the record at handover, so in ten years you know exactly what is behind your walls.
Honest numbers
What a renovation costs in Dulwich Hill.
Most builders will not put numbers on a website. We will, because the alternative is wasting your time and ours across three meetings before anyone mentions a figure.
Federation homes reward care and punish shortcuts, and renovating one properly costs more per square metre than a seventies project home. Matching period joinery, plaster detail and roof junctions takes trade skill, and it is exactly the work we enjoy most. Narrow frontages and rear lane access can add to preliminaries, priced up front rather than discovered mid build.
How many of the walls you want gone are structural is usually the largest single factor, followed by the number of wet areas, since a bathroom carries more trades per square metre than any other room in the house. Century old homes frequently need full rewiring and replumbing, priced up front rather than discovered mid build.
Every project is quoted properly after a site inspection. These ranges are here so you can decide whether it is worth a conversation.
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Dulwich Hill renovation questions.
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Renovate your Dulwich Hill home properly.
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