Custom Homes
A home that could onlybe built on your block.
You own the land. We design and build the one-off residence that belongs on it, resolved to your site, your orientation and the way you actually live.
What a custom home actually is
A custom home is not a bigger home, or a more expensive one. It is a home where every decision was made on purpose.
It means the living area faces the winter sun because we measured where the winter sun goes. It means the ceiling lifts in the one room where the volume matters and stays intimate everywhere else. It means the laundry is where your family will actually use it, the storage is sized for what you actually own, and the window that would have looked into your neighbour’s bathroom is somewhere else entirely.
None of that is expensive. It is just the result of designing for one site and one family instead of for a market.
Who this is for
- You have bought, or already own, a block in metropolitan Adelaide, the Hills, the Fleurieu or the Barossa.
- You have a clear sense of how you want to live, even if you cannot yet draw it.
- Your site has something a standard plan cannot handle: a slope, a view, an awkward orientation, a narrow frontage, a heritage neighbour, or a genuinely beautiful tree.
- You would rather spend longer getting the design right than start building sooner.
The service
Everything from the first sketch to the last defect.
Site and feasibility assessment
Orientation, contours, easements, soil classification, council overlays and what they will allow, before you commit to anything.
Architectural design
Concept through to full working drawings, developed with you in person, not emailed at you.
Engineering and consultants
Structural engineering, soil report, energy assessment and surveyor, all coordinated by us.
Planning and building approvals
We prepare and lodge your Development Application through PlanSA and manage it to Development Approval.
Interior selections
Guided selections across finishes, joinery, tapware, tiling and lighting, with an open specification. If you want a fitting we do not normally use, we will price it.
Construction and handover
Built by our own regular trades, to a fixed price and a published program, with weekly photographs and a live client portal.
Aftercare
A 12-month defects period with scheduled three-month and eleven-month inspections, plus statutory warranty.
Investment
What a Sakar home costs.
Every custom home is priced individually, because every site and every brief is different. But you should not have to make three phone calls to find out whether you are in the right range.
As a guide, Sakar custom homes typically start from around $[X] per square metre of built area for a level site in metropolitan Adelaide, with most projects landing between $[X] and $[Y] in total construction cost. Sloping sites, difficult access, heritage constraints and highly resolved joinery move that figure, and we will tell you which of those apply to your site at the first meeting.
What that figure includes, and the handful of things it does not, is set out in full on our inclusions page.
Read our inclusions
Questions, answered
Asked at almost every first meeting.
From the first conversation to handover, most Sakar homes take 18 to 24 months. Roughly six to nine months of that is design, documentation and approvals; the build itself is typically 10 to 14 months depending on size and complexity.
No. Design is part of what we do, and it is included. If you already have an architect you want to keep, we are very happy to build to their drawings. We work well with external designers.
Yes. Our specification is open. Tell us what you want and we will price it. We will also tell you honestly if we think something will not perform.
You will know before it happens, not after. Every selection is tracked against its allowance in your portal in real time, so a decision to upgrade is always a decision you make with the number in front of you.
Tell us about the home you have in mind.
Every Sakar home begins with an unhurried conversation about your site, your budget and how you actually want to live. No obligation, no sales pitch, just a clear view of what is possible.