Consultancy

For the dream home you build once.

Most homes drift between the people who design them and the people who build them. We sit in that gap, holding your brief and measuring every decision against it, so the home that gets built is the home you actually wanted.

Brief

We start with you. We map the way you live, sleep, and move through a day, and translate it into the systems your home will need. The Brief is the most valuable thing we make. Every architect, engineer, and builder on the project works from it. Every decision, is held against it.

Design integration

The brief tells us who should design your home. We bring in the right architect — or work with yours — and build the eight pillars of the Homey Standard into the design, before drawings ever go to council.

Build oversight

We hold the brief all the way onto the site, standing over the mechanical, acoustic, and material decisions - making sure the home matches what was promised.

Handover

We calibrate every system and leave you a manual written for your home. Then we onboard you onto the Homey Life App — because handover isn't the end of the relationship. It's the start of a different one.

The Brief is the foundation.

The Homey Brief is a complete portrait of how a person, a family, and a household actually live.

It maps what wellbeing means for you specifically, ranks the spaces and moments that matter most, pins down the materials and aesthetic you're drawn to — and becomes the guardrail every later decision is measured against.

Underneath the brief sits the science of how a building shapes the health of the people inside it — building biology — which our consultants and building biologists carry from the first drawing through to certification, alongside the air quality and moisture decisions that keep a home from ever growing mould.

Wellness means something different in every household. For one person it's deep, uninterrupted sleep; for another it's somewhere quiet to come down at the end of a hard day or simply having access to services and a lifestyle that keeps them well. We draw out what it means for you specifically — so the home is built around your body, not a generic idea of wellbeing.

Before design begins, we rank what matters most: the rooms you'll live in hardest, the moments worth protecting, the things you'd never compromise. When a trade-off has to be made later, it's made on purpose.

Before a line is drawn, we pin down the look and the materials you're drawn to — gathered into one clear reference everyone designs against. It's where taste meets the Standard: Materials and finishes chosen for how they feel and how they age, as much as for what they do to the air you breathe.

Once it's set, the Brief becomes the line every later decision is measured against. When a question comes up months in — a material swap, a budget pressure, a change on site — the answer isn't an opinion in the room. It's already in the Brief. That's what keeps a home from drifting from what you wanted.

Ways to engage

Two packages. Both end in the same Standard.

A development runs in nine phases, from the site and the feasibility through to the day you move in. The difference between the two packages is simply how much of each phase we carry for you. Same eight standards, same testing, same certification at the end — what differs is how much of the load you carry yourselves.

The Collaboration Package

For those who have done this before. If you already have your people, an understanding of construction or development, and the time to carry the project yourself, this is the package built around you. You keep full control of your design team, your builder and your budget — Homey sets the Homey Standard targets at the start, writes the wellness brief with you, reviews the design through to certification, attends the key stages on site, and tests and certifies the finished building. We help you get going, and we hold the Standard — the decisions stay yours.

We set the Standard targets and write the wellness brief with you so the eight standards are designed in from the first drawing, not retrofitted. Your architect and consultants lead the design while we review it at every stage against the Standard, from first drawings through to certification. You appoint and manage your own builder, and we attend the key stages on site while the home is being built. We also specify and document every material and finish, so what is designed is what actually gets installed, then test the finished building across air, water, light, sound, materials and EMF before issuing the certification. Your home is handed over with its certificate — and you're onboarded into the Homey Life App and connected with the Resident Circle.

The Project Management Package

For first-timers, the time-poor, and anyone who would rather the project simply be handled. Homey runs the whole process for you: the architect, the builder, the budget, the program, and the site. It starts before anything is drawn — we run the feasibility ourselves on real rates and a real program, then write the Homey Brief that every later decision is tested against. From there we build the full panel: three architects vetted against your brief, your budget and your style, with the engineers, landscape, interiors, lighting, acoustics and wellbeing consultants selected around them, and every fee negotiated on your side of the table. You approve, we arrange.

Through design we direct and coordinate the whole consultant team — chairing the meetings, holding the budget and the brief across every revision — until the drawings carry the Homey stamp and the documentation certification. We manage planning and permits end to end, then price the job internally before it goes to market, vet three builders, compare the returned quotes line by line, and negotiate the contract. If every quote comes back above our number, we re-tender.

Through construction we attend site weekly, with reports and photographs filed on every visit, progress claims assessed against the work actually built, and every variation weighed against the brief before it is approved. Before the wall linings close up we run a 3D scan of the home — every pipe, cable and stud documented and handed on with the building. At completion we run the defect inspection, carry rectification through to done, and collect the builder's certificates and declarations.

The finish is treated with the same care as the frame. The styling program is engaged well before handover, with furniture, textiles and equipment chosen through the same vetting and partner pricing as everything else in the home — delivered, placed and move-in ready — and the launch campaign is run alongside. Your home is handed over with its certificate — and you're onboarded into the Homey Life App and connected with the Resident Circle.

Stone, joinery, tapware and finishes are documented item by item, then issued directly to our overseas sourcing network and brand partners. Because we buy through that network instead of through the usual local markups, the same budget typically costs materially less. Our aim is to save you more than you pay us in fees — and to quantify that against the cost plan before construction starts.

The certification

Read like a diamond certificate.

Certification is the constant, whichever package you take — no home, hotel or retreat carries the Homey name without it. The certification is a multi-page document that walks all eight standards and records what the building did under each one: what was specified, what was installed, and what was measured. It names the architect, the builder and the consultants who delivered it.

It describes and rates the thing in front of it. It does not promise the building is perfect — which is exactly why it is worth something. That matters most to the buyer or guest who has a reason to care: someone with asthma, chemical sensitivity, sleep problems, an EMF sensitivity — yes, even that — or a recovery to manage can read the certification and know whether the building suits them before they commit.

Air

Indoor air quality and VOC readings taken through the building once the finishes are in, where off-gassing actually shows up.

Ventilation

Airflow and exchange measured against what was documented — not what the mechanical schedule claims.

Water, light and sound

Filtration and water quality, daylight and artificial light, and acoustic separation between the spaces that need it.

Fields and finishes

EMF readings through sleeping and living zones, and a check that the specified low-toxicity finishes are the ones that went in.

The result is a certificate number and a permanent, searchable record — recognised wherever the Homey mark appears.

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Some homes you build once. Let's make sure it's the one you wanted.

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