Home renovation Adelaide, designed and built under one roof.
A renovation builder for significant homes in Adelaide. Interior design, council approvals, and construction held by one studio, under one standard, from first brief to handover.
The essentials, before you brief us.
RESLU takes significant Adelaide renovations from first plan through approvals and construction. These are the fit signals most people need before a first conversation.
- Typical investment
- Significant whole-home renovations typically start from $700,000. Focused scopes sit below that.
- One accountable studio
- Interior design, building design, council approvals and construction are held together.
- Where we work
- Adelaide’s inner and eastern suburbs, including Unley, Norwood, North Adelaide, St Peters and Burnside.
- What happens next
- We review every brief and respond within one business day. No sales calls.
Kitchen, ensuite, laundry, drawing room and landscape resolved as one project.
View project →Largs BayWhole home, extension and backyardAn abandoned renovation made coherent, then featured on Channel 9’s Dream Homes Revealed.
View project →AdelaidePenthouse renovationA complete interior reworked around colour, warmth and a new spatial identity.
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What makes a home renovation in Adelaide different
A home renovation in Adelaide means working within a built environment that was not designed for how you want to live today. The bones are often worth keeping: the proportions, the ceiling heights, the relationship to the street. What changes is everything inside them.
Most renovation builders hand part of the project off. An architect designs it. A builder prices it. Tradespeople interpret it. By the time the last tile is laid, the home reflects the translation, not the original intention.
RESLU operates as a single studio. The designer and the renovation builder are the same team. The material decision made in the design and documentation phase is the material that arrives on site. There is no gap to fall into.
We work across Adelaide’s inner suburbs: Unley, Norwood, North Adelaide, St Peters, Burnside, Walkerville, Toorak Gardens, Hyde Park, Hawthorn. One home renovation at a time.
Heritage and character homes
Adelaide’s older homes are our most common brief.
A significant proportion of homes in Adelaide’s inner suburbs carry a heritage overlay or fall within a designated character area. This shapes what can be altered, how additions read from the street, and what documentation council requires before any work begins.
RESLU has worked on South Australian Heritage Act properties and local heritage listed homes across Unley, North Adelaide, Norwood, and Walkerville. Heritage impact statements and council referrals are prepared internally, so you never coordinate a separate consultant.
The approach is the same whether the home is listed or not. We begin with what the home is, then establish what it can become. Character is not something to work around. It is the thing worth keeping.
How a home renovation works at RESLU
Brief and site visit
Before any commitment is made, we review your brief and visit the home. We assess the structure, understand how you use it, and establish whether the scope is right for us, and whether we are the right studio for you.
Design and documentation
Our interior and building design team develops the full scheme: floor plan, ceiling heights, joinery, material palette, lighting, and fittings. The question every client carries into this phase is the same: how do I know this is the right decision before it is too late to change? The renders we produce are photorealistic. Finished rooms, in the actual material palette, lit as they will be lived in. Not approximations. Decisions are made from a position of certainty, before construction begins.
Every decision is resolved and documented in full before a trade is briefed. Drawings, decisions, and progress are tracked through a private client portal throughout the project. Changes at this stage cost time, not money.
Council documentation and approvals
Development approval, building consent, and heritage referrals where required. Managed internally, across Adelaide’s suburban council areas.
Construction
Our core trades and project managers build the home. The same people who briefed the design make decisions on site. No interpretation required.
Handover
Finished, furnished, and documented. A complete record of every specification, supplier, and material, held for the life of the home.
West Lakes Shore · the render that was drawn, and the room that was built.
A client on the experience of working with the studio.
Investment
Significant home renovations at RESLU typically start from $700,000. Focused scopes, a kitchen, bathroom, or primary suite, sit below that. The brief defines the number.
Before we draw anything, we need to understand what you have to spend and what you want to achieve with that spend. That conversation is the foundation of an honest brief. Without it, any scope we produce is speculative.
RESLU’s focus is on getting the very best outcome from the investment in front of us. Every material decision, every construction detail, every resolved junction in the joinery reflects the same standard of attention and craft, whether the scope is a focused kitchen or the whole house.
The scope adjusts to the investment. The standard does not.
For heritage homes, we are specific about the additional work involved: documentation, conservation requirements, specialist trades. All of that is part of the investment conversation before either side commits.
Recent renovation projects
An eighties build opened to the ocean. Removing the original brick fireplace opened the kitchen to a framed water view, and the whole plan began to breathe. Kitchen, ensuite, laundry, drawing room and backyard resolved as one composition, by one team.
Whole home renovation, extension and backyard · Largs BayBought half finished, another owner’s abandoned renovation, and made unmistakably theirs. Warm neutrals, texture on texture, kitchen and sitting room and backyard working as one continuous room. Featured on Channel 9’s Dream Homes Revealed.
Penthouse renovation · AdelaideA beige on beige penthouse given its personality back. Deep Kalamata tones placed in small, deliberate doses, and an ethanol firebox where a flue could never go. The colour the clients resisted is now the first thing they point to.
On renovation in Adelaide: the questions we hear most
People come to us with broadly the same set of questions. What is included. How long it takes. Whether we handle heritage homes. How the brief process works.
On scope
At RESLU, a renovation builder engagement includes everything. Design and documentation, council approvals, construction management, and trade coordination. You deal with one studio from the first conversation to handover. There is no separate consultant to brief, no builder to interpret the drawings, no gap between what was designed and what arrives on site.
On timelines
A full home renovation typically runs 10 to 18 months from first brief to handover. Heritage properties with council overlays often run longer. We have managed council processes across Unley, Norwood, City of Adelaide, Burnside, and Walkerville. The programme we give you at the beginning reflects how the work actually unfolds, not an optimistic estimate designed to secure the job.
On heritage
We work in heritage listed and character overlay properties across Adelaide’s inner suburbs as a matter of course. Heritage impact statements, council referrals, and conservation requirements are all prepared internally. The approach is consistent: we begin with what the home is, then establish what it can become.
On the brief
Submit a brief here. We respond within one business day. If it looks like a fit, we arrange a studio consultation. No cost, no obligation on either side.
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