The Urban Effects Process
We make home building, extending and renovating a creative yet simple and enjoyable process.
Don’t be overwhelmed, a team of professionals will be there with you all the way through.
Here’s how it works:
After we have an initial discussion over the phone, we sit down with you either in our office or in your home to discuss your ideas and needs.

CREATIVE DESIGN
Our design professionals provide a sketch design that takes into account your existing home or land. We include a cost estimate for the design we provide.
After this meeting we will prepare for you a Design Proposal, which includes a report of the various aspects of the project and indicative costs for each stage. We will also provide a sketch plan at this stage if required. Then there is usually a period of dialogue about different thoughts you may have, and we can work out the cost of various possibilities.
Once you are fairly settled on the way forward, we will prepare a formal agreement in order to set things in motion.

PLANS
Our design professionals provide a sketch design that takes into account your existing home or land. We include a cost estimate for the design we provide.
Our architect draws the plans as required for construction purposes, as well as detailed interior drawings for kitchen cabinetry.

COLOURS
Our interior designer works with you to make your colour and fixture selections, with everything specified clearly for a fixed price contract.
- Architectural Drawings, detailed and ready for building approvals.
- We also prepare the Working Specification needed for a formal building contract.
- Interior design detailed drawings
- Selections of fixtures, fittings and colours
- Engineering and other technical reports.

PERMITS
We represent your home design to local authorities on your behalf, and complete all requirements for obtaining permits & permission to build.

BUILDING

We don’t cut corners or do it the easy way. We care about quality and therefore take responsibility for problems as they occur, even if it costs us personally. Our job is not done if there are still issues to resolve with a project.
Our head office is located in the main street of Warrandyte, Victoria. We have called the Yarra Valley home for the past 20 years.
Come in for a coffee and we can discuss your ideas. We have an in-house design team, or you can bring your own design. Being equipped and ready to handle your whole project, from start to finish is the aim of what we do.