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SOL Elements, Tamborine Mountain QLD
Remarkable places, precisely designed.
Signature home designs and unique commercial projects, from first concept to construction drawings, Australia-wide.
Winner · National Design Excellence Award · BDAA 2026
Three national awards in 2026
National Design Excellence Award
SOL Elements
Commercial Buildings
SOL Elements
New Residential Buildings ($1.51m to $1.99m)
Nero
Also in 2026: Best Residential Building Design Practice, Queensland, and Best Health and Wellness Design Project at the BUILD Architecture Awards. Our licensee builders have won on Design Artisan designs too, including MaccaBuilt, Lancaster Homes and Corbett Homes.
Every detail answers its site.
Design Artisan is a building design studio on Tamborine Mountain in Queensland's Scenic Rim, designing custom homes, acreage homesteads and unique commercial projects across Australia.
A little magic in every brief, from first concept to final drawing.
Designing and documenting since 2006
We don't do the everyday
The same budget can build something ordinary or something remarkable. The difference is the design. Whether it's a home of your own, a destination or a development, every project has the studio's full attention.
Signature homes
New homes, country homesteads, secondary dwellings and complete transformations of existing homes, each shaped around its land, its light and the way you live.
Home design services
Destinations and developments
Retreats, short-stay accommodation, hospitality venues and apartment buildings that give people a reason to stop and look, from first concept through to approval.
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Designs for licensee builders
Designs exclusive to your area and documentation you can price from, with your name on the sign.
Building design for buildersRecent work
A national award-winning bath house, a home that turns a seven metre fall into its view, and a family home given a second life. Each began with a site and a brief like no other.
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From first conversation to final drawing
Five stages, with a tailored proposal before we begin.
Start a conversationListen
We walk the site with you, in person or by video, and learn what the place and the brief are asking for.
Imagine
Concept plans and artist impressions bring the big ideas, and a little magic, to life before any detail is spent.
Refine
Plans, elevations and materials resolved together, with your builder and engineer brought in where known.
Document
Construction drawings resolved to the last detail, with energy rating and approvals coordinated.
Stand by
We stay close through tender and construction, answering questions as they arise.
A small studio with a national record
Design Artisan has designed and documented homes since 2006. Builders right across Australia work from our drawings, which is why our documentation is written for the people who read it on site.
Every project, SOL Elements and Nero included, is designed and documented in-house by the Design Artisan team.
Member, Building Designers Association of Australia. QBCC licence 15124173.
About the studio
Questions we're asked first
Who is Design Artisan?
Design Artisan is an award-winning building design studio based on Tamborine Mountain, Queensland. Founded in 2006, we design and document custom homes and selected commercial projects across Australia. Our work won the 2026 BDAA National Design Excellence Award.
Where do you work?
Our studio is on Tamborine Mountain in the Scenic Rim, about an hour from Brisbane and the Gold Coast. We design projects across Queensland and New South Wales and further afield, meeting clients on site or by video. Nero, our 2026 award-winning home, is in Estella in the NSW Riverina.
Do you build?
No. We design and document. You choose your builder, or we can refer you to one of our licensee builders, who already know our drawings.
Do you take on commercial projects?
Yes, and they are some of our favourite briefs. We design commercial projects people travel for: retreats, wellness and hospitality venues, tourism destinations and places to gather. SOL Elements, our bath house on Tamborine Mountain, won both Commercial Buildings and the overall National Design Excellence Award at the 2026 BDAA National Design Awards.
What does design cost?
Every project is different, so fees depend on its scale and complexity. After a first conversation about your site and brief, we send a tailored proposal outlining the scope and fees.
Tell us about your project
A few details about the site and the brief help us come back to you with something useful. We'll be in touch to arrange a first conversation.
Prefer to talk? Call 1300 977 778
We only use your details to reply to your enquiry. We never share them.
Are you a builder? See how licensee builders work with Design Artisan.
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