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Home Renovations

At Bray Constructions, home renovations are just one of the many core domestic building services we offer. With a combined total of over 100 years of experience on our team, we can help you renovate your whole home so you can stay where you love but have the look and feel you’ve been dreaming of.

Or, have you purchased the ‘worse house in the best street?’ If so, let us help you turn it into your dream home. Here at Bray Constructions, we are custom builders who deliver quality home extensions and renovations, allowing you to design and construct the home of your dreams.

But, before you start researching renovation companies in Melbourne’s Bayside, let’s take a closer look at the benefits, types, and considerations for home renovations.

Benefits of a Home Renovation

For homeowners, deciding on a home renovation comes with many benefits. That’s why, with the help of Bray Constructions, you can make the most out of your current home by choosing to move forward with our team of renovation builders.

Here are a few of the primary advantages of a home renovations with Bray Constructions.

1. Stay Close to Family and Friends
When it comes to undertaking a home renovation, there are many benefits worth considering. Remaining close to family, friends, and preferred schools in a place where many happy family memories have been created are significant reasons to stay and renovate. Rather than uprooting your family, you can get everything you want and need from your home by transforming the existing floorplan.
2. Save Money in the Long Run
A home renovation can often be the most cost-effective solution when compared to moving. Even the most unappealing, poorly laid-out home can be converted into a fantastic home without the substantial relocation costs, refinancing and stamp duty expenses, or the inconvenience of displacing the family when using reputable renovation builders.
3. Add Extra Space to Your Home
Have you been feeling more cramped in your home than usual? Or, are you anticipating growth in your family home? Whether you have more children or other family members joining you under your roof, home renovations with Bray Constructions, one of the most highly regarded Melbourne builders, could be ideal for you.
4. Create More Ventilation and Natural Light
Older homes don’t always maximise features that are popular today, such as natural lighting and ventilation. If the rooms in your home are too dark, or you long for fresh air to flow throughout your home, it might be time to give us a call. With decades of experience in designing and renovating homes, we can help you have all the modern, light filled, open planned features you never thought were possible in an older home.
5. Improve the Functionality of Your Home
The overall functionality of your home can change as your family grows and priorities change. For example, if you have children moving into young adulthood, they might require more privacy. Or, you might be interested in simply enhancing the flow of your home. Make your home more livable with a home renovation.

Types of Home Renovations

While there are countless ways to renovate your home, there are two primary types of home renovations we specialise in at Bray Constructions. We offer homeowners modern and custom home renovations.

Modern Home Renovations

If you are to transform your home to match the latest design trends completely, modern home renovations are a great option. Rather than going through the hassle of finding a new build home, consider your options in renovating your current home to match your ideal aesthetics.

Take a look at some of our latest modern home renovations and get inspired.

Custom Home Renovations

If you’re looking to preserve your home’s original character, the renovation building team at Bray Constructions can help you design the home of your dreams. We work with any style of home, respecting any existing period features, such as Californian Bungalows and homes built in the Victorian and Federation eras.

Take a look at some of our latest custom home renovations to see for yourself.

What to Consider for a Home Renovation

There are endless options out there for you when it comes to home renovations. In making the first step, it’s best to start by writing down your main objectives.
What Are You Trying to Achieve?

Asking yourself what you are trying to achieve from your home renovation is going to help you get the answers you’re looking for.

It’s essential to think about what problem you are trying to solve before coming up with a solution. For example, an extra bedroom may only be part of the solution longer-term if you have a growing family that needs more space.

Visualise the Ideas in Your Mind

Once you have a list of the objectives you would like to achieve, create a scrapbook or digital mood board filled with photographs and ideas you like. Having a visualisation of your ideas will help get the project moving along while also making it easier for you to discuss options with others.

Ensure those that share the home with you have contributed and are part of the process from the very beginning by creating your mood board or scrapbook with them.

Start Talking to Renovation Builders

Once you have some visual examples of the spaces you like, it’s time to speak with the experts to get some advice and learn more about what might be feasible for your property. Let the expert team of home renovation builders at Bray Constructions lead you in the right direction.

Home Renovations Brought to You by Renovation Builders at Bray Constructions

Every home renovation is customised, whether you’re choosing a new home design from a catalogue or list or a paint color for your walls. A home is what you decide to make it.

A custom home renovation for your home with Bray Constructions is an exciting process. Pull inspiration from our galleries or work on a new design ‘from scratch.’ We’re happy to provide our expertise every step of the way.

Contact Bray Constructions today to learn more about the wide range of services that we provide, including our home renovations.