2024 ↓
We’ve had another rewarding year, creating homes for wonderful clients, with many more exciting projects heading to site and starting in the studio in 2025.
We don’t take for granted that we are in a position to be fostering a talented and dedicated team that are all working towards great outcomes for our clients and the business.
As part of our development, we challenged ourselves to answer the how and why. This has culminated in us sharing our philosophy, process, and practice, which in the face of our mercurial industry, we believe is genuinely helping our clients and ourselves succeed.
We are grateful to our clients, team, trades, suppliers and brand partners for their contributions to our design + build journey. Below are some highlights from the year and what’s coming next.
Lachlan & Rick
Year in photos
Thank you to all our client partners who have trusted us with such an important personal project as building your home. For those who have moved in this year, welcome to the Happy Haus Owner’s Club; we hope you love being in your new homes with friends and family.
To our clients who are currently in the process, we can’t wait to say “Welcome home” in 2025.
As part of the James Hardie Design Handbook series for 2024, Happy Haus was invited to share ideas and insight on how to create the mid-century modern look.
It has been so good to revisit some of the mid-century-inspired homes we have built over the years that serve as inspiration for what’s possible with contemporary materials, and ultra-modern amenities.
Alongside some of the brilliant James Hardie products we use in our homes, the guide includes material and texture references, colour palettes and other products we love such as ABI Interiors, National Tiles, Beacon Lighting, Corinthian Doors and Jardan.
Thank you James Hardie for the invitation to collaborate and for many wonderful years of partnership.
Haus Tarragindi sold for $3.3m, which at the time, was the second-highest sale for the suburb and the highest on a sub-800sqm block.
While creating quality living for our clients remains our primary focus, we understand the importance of market value when designing and building homes.
As demand for newly built homes soars, our development, Haus Tarragindi sold for 3.3m, which at the time, was the second-highest sale for the suburb and the highest on a sub-800sqm block.
Our New Farm Haus 107 client, a prominent Brisbane developer, sold the newly completed Happy Haus in New Farm for $4.1 million.
Why don’t square metre rates always measure up?
One of the first questions that a new potential client asks us is: what’s your square metre rate of construction? And the truth is, it’s complicated.
While it seems like a really sensible question to ask when you’re qualifying a selection of builders, there’s a lot more to it than a tidy figure. In our latest article, we unfold why, more often than not, a square metre rate just doesn’t measure up.
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