Our focus creates a clear pathway toward project realisation.
Cantilever + CO offers an end-to-end design and build service.
The service pairs clients with a trusted builder who shares our commitment to deliver resolved, highly functional spaces, with efficiency and care.
The service provides clients with the support they need to make informed decisions toward investment expectations and design outcomes, with the backdrop of an assured quality of execution.
Local knowledge creating local opportunity.
“We believe that sharing knowledge builds confidence. Cantilever &CO enables the flow of understanding between designer and builder needed to support our clients to make confident decisions.”
KYLIE FORBES, CREATIVE DIRECTOR
United by Experience
Refurbishment of an existing property unlocks the inherent value of it’s architecture, and connection to place. It maximizes impact, whilst reducing material waste, investment barriers, and time to completion.
It also requires depth of experience to ascertain the costs and risks adjacent to the opportunity.
“Because we produce the joinery, Cantilever can provide a strong gauge on these costs. We offer fixed Interior Design fees, independent of the build contract value. Build costs are dependent on variables like the complexity of design scope, site conditions and building types. We rely on each builder to supply these assessments, post a site discovery session. We establish the financial investment bracket needed to build the scope of work the client is seeking very early on, which is understood at the outset. These numbers are realistic, due to the site-expertise of the builder, and their familiarity with our designs and joinery.”
TRAVIS DEAN, MANAGING DIRECTOR
United by Design
Cantilever selects builders that align with our standards of quality, communication and culture. Each build team is familiar with our product, and interior design approach. Exchange of knowledge between each trade, designer and builder creates expertise of execution on site, through better communication and increasing familiarity. This knowledge increases with every project.
“Every job presents unique differences. We like to think all that through before we get on site, to make sure we’re executing a finished product that’s considered. I think that’s a real strength of Cantilever + CO.”
DAVID SILVERBACK, BUILDER
United by Mutual
Responsibility
Management of timeline is a responsibility we share. We establish a realistic target of completion at the beginning of the project, and by working as a group, our time from engagement to completion is very efficient.
“We communicate timeline early, and keep the program as tight as possible by getting all the design work completed and lead times managed, so when we press go on-site we’ve got a clear and critical path. Our builders have multiple jobs on the go, so they’re rolling trades between projects to manage programs very efficiently. Most of our Multi-Room projects are completed within a year, Whole Home projects can take longer, dependant on the scale.”
TRAVIS DEAN, MANAGING DIRECTOR
With their extensive network of skilled tradespeople and decades of project management expertise, our builders’ execute construction with a degree of pre-planning and attention to detail impossible for non-professionals. The results are transformational.
It’s our Culture as a
Responsible Business
“Once we get to documentation phase there’s minimal risk of variations coming later,” Travis says. “It’s a system designed to be fair to all three parties: the client, the builder and us. It’s about being thorough, creating understanding of costs early on, building trust and confidence with each other, and being as transparent and detailed as we can.”
TRAVIS DEAN, MANAGING DIRECTOR
