Hill House Design and Construct

Hill House Design and Construct Thoughtful homes for modern Australian living. Based in Toowoomba.

Character renovations, custom homes and considered spaces designed with warmth, longevity and craftsmanship in mind.

Let's talk texture.It's easy to focus on colour when you're planning a renovation, but texture is what actually makes a ...
03/09/2026

Let's talk texture.

It's easy to focus on colour when you're planning a renovation, but texture is what actually makes a room feel considered. The grain in raw timber. A honed stone benchtop next to a glossy tile. Linen curtains against a painted VJ wall. None of it needs to match perfectly, it just needs to feel like it belongs together.

We think about texture as much as we think about layout. It's often the difference between a space that looks nice in photos and one that actually feels good to live in.

28/08/2026

There's a lot invested in building or renovating a home long before you ever get to enjoy the finished rooms. Money, of course. But also months of decisions, conversations, waiting, and probably more chats about tapware and paint colours than you ever expected to have. For a while, the project becomes your whole personality.

Then, eventually, you get to this bit. The decisions are made, the waiting is over, and the home you've spent so long imagining is finally yours to just live in.

We're completely invested in that process too. We live alongside these projects with our clients, and by the time we reach the end, we're usually just as attached as you are. Honestly, this is the kind of house we'd want to come home to ourselves, which probably says a lot about how hard it is to hand one back once you've poured this much into it.

Walking through it one last time before it's someone else's to live in, that never gets old. And it never gets easier either.

Earlier this year, we were pleased to come on board as a local sponsor for Highfields Kindergarten major raffle.Being pa...
17/08/2026

Earlier this year, we were pleased to come on board as a local sponsor for Highfields Kindergarten major raffle.

Being part of the Toowoomba community means supporting the local organisations that contribute so much to it, and we’re grateful for this kind acknowledgement.

Thank you for having Hill House be a small part of it.

Somewhere between running a business, raising kids and keeping up with everything else, it's easy to stop doing things j...
12/08/2026

Somewhere between running a business, raising kids and keeping up with everything else, it's easy to stop doing things just for yourself.

A few weeks ago, long after both our houses had gone quiet, my friend Chrissie sent me a message. "This looks terrifying, but I want to do it. Will you do it with me?"

The Q1 Stair Challenge. 77 floors. 1,331 stairs. Straight up the Q1 on the Gold Coast.

From bed, it sounded like a great idea...

And unlike most of our questionable ideas, we've actually trained for this one. Stairs, hills, whatever we could find. Mostly sent to each other as proof we'd actually done it.

We're two weeks out now.

We're doing it because we're mums who want to feel like we can do hard things. Something that's ours, something we chose, and something we'll hopefully feel pretty bloody proud of when we get to the top.
Along the way, we're raising money for LIVIN and their work in mental health, a cause that means more to us than I'll probably put into an Instagram caption.

If you'd like to get behind us, the link's in the bio.

See you on the other side of 1,331 stairs.
~ Court

Work trips have become stair-hunting adventures, even at Manly Beach.

Laughing with Mr 5... or I'll cry.

'Coach' insisted on a warm down.

Stair training with Mum is the new after school activity.

Lucky to call this our backyard.

There's a particular kind of relief that comes at this stage of a project. After months of plastic sheeting, dust and un...
06/08/2026

There's a particular kind of relief that comes at this stage of a project. After months of plastic sheeting, dust and unfinished corners, the coverings finally start coming off and the home you trusted us with begins to look like itself again.

At Gentle Street, that's exactly where we are. Original details we've been carefully protecting the whole way through, like this leadlight door, are visible again. Newer additions, like this chandelier, have been chosen to sit like they've always belonged in the home.

It's a good reminder that everything happening now was decided months ago, long before construction even began. Nothing about this has been left to chance.

Still love being a carpenter... just not your job?Maybe it's not the trade you're ready to leave.Maybe you're just looki...
28/07/2026

Still love being a carpenter... just not your job?
Maybe it's not the trade you're ready to leave.

Maybe you're just looking for a team that plans ahead, communicates clearly and takes pride in doing things properly.

That's the kind of business we're building at Hill House. If that sounds like the sort of place you've been looking for, we'd love to hear from you.

Every home has a story. Some have been unfolding for generations, others are only just beginning, but the goal is always...
29/06/2026

Every home has a story. Some have been unfolding for generations, others are only just beginning, but the goal is always the same, a home worth growing into, worth coming back to, worth remembering.

The homes that stay with us were never remembered because they were perfect. They're remembered because life happened there.

Awards are interesting. They can recognise good businesses, celebrate good people, and shine a light on hard work, but t...
25/06/2026

Awards are interesting. They can recognise good businesses, celebrate good people, and shine a light on hard work, but they can't measure the feeling of walking into your finished home for the first time. They can't measure trust, or the phone call months later to say "we still love living here." Those things don't fit neatly into a judging criteria.

So while we're incredibly grateful to be recognised as finalists in the Australian Trades Small Business Champion Awards, for Builder - Small, and for James as a Champion Tradie finalist, we're even more grateful for the people who gave us a reason to be there in the first place.

That's the recognition we'll always value most.

– James & Courtney

23/06/2026

Every home tells the story of the people who've lived there. Over the years, rooms get added, walls get moved, verandas get enclosed, all reshaped to suit whatever season of life a family found themselves in at the time. None of that's a bad thing. A young family needs more living space, a farmer needs a practical mudroom, a growing household closes in a veranda to create another room. Homes change because life changes.

But every now and then, a project asks us to look backwards as well as forwards, to ask what was here before, what got lost along the way, and whether bringing back a piece of a home's original character might actually serve its next chapter better than moving further away from it. That's the balance between renovating and restoring. One honours how we live today. The other honours the story that was already there.

At Spring Creek, we're working through stage two of this farmhouse renovation, and part of that involves removing an old enclosed sunroom and reopening it as the front veranda it was originally built to be. It's a small change in some ways, but one that reconnects the home with its original proportions, its character, and its connection to the landscape around it.

Not every project calls for restoration, and not every old alteration should be undone. But when the right opportunity comes along, there's something special about handing a home back a piece of its own story.

17/06/2026

Most people won't notice when this is done, but that's the whole point.

When you're working on a home that's over a hundred years old, the goal isn't to add to it, it's to continue it. To make the new work sit so comfortably alongside the original that nobody could tell you where one ends and the other begins. Same profile, same rhythm, same feeling across the whole thing.

Getting there means caring about details that will never be photographed. The way boards are placed, how they run true across a long wall, how new timber is chosen to sit alongside timber that's been weathering for well over a century. When it's done right, the finished home doesn't have a "before" anymore. It's not old-meets-new.

It's just a home that feels like it was always whole.

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