UP TO 70 M²
NO CONSENT

Make room on
your own land.
Without the red tape.

No consent needed for any dwelling 70 m² or under. Architect-designed, adapted to your address, signed by licensed designers: you skip the queue and get building.

ARCHITECT-DESIGNED · CONSENT-EXEMPT ≤ 70 M² · SINCE JAN 2026
BROWSE THE CATALOGUE

However you'd use it.

Three plans, every situation. Browse by where it goes or what it's for: scroll each row, or jump to a category.

THE MORTGAGE

What would the repayments be?

Slide the numbers and see the weekly cost of borrowing for the build. Set against typical rent, most owners find the maths does the convincing.

BUILD COST TO BORROW$200,000
$100K$400K
DEPOSIT20%
0%50%
INTEREST RATE5.9%
4%9%
LOAN TERM25 yrs
10 YRS30 YRS
ESTIMATED REPAYMENTS
$236/ WK
MONTHLY$1,021
TOTAL INTEREST$146,337
TYPICAL RENT EARNED$600 / WK
Get my real numbers

Indicative only, not lending advice. Your bank sets the real rate and terms. Rent figure is the typical $600/wk for a two-bed minor dwelling in regional NZ.

HOW IT WORKS

Four steps. No consent queue.

From plan to keys, sketched below. The full detail, and which path suits you, lives on its own page.

See how it works ↗
01 · PICK YOUR PLAN

Three architect-designed footprints: Fern 48, Kōwhai 60, Rātā 70. Browse the catalogue, run the numbers, choose your materials.

02 · WE ADAPT IT TO YOUR ADDRESS

A licensed designer adapts the set to your section: wind zone, soils, planning overlays. Signed and consent-exempt, usually in 5 working days.

03 · CHOOSE YOUR PATH

Take the signed plan set to your own builder, or go turnkey: our crew builds it end-to-end from a fixed quote.

04 · BUILT. KEYS. DONE.

9 to 13 weeks on site depending on the plan. It's housing family or earning rent before the year turns.

01 · MATERIALS

See it in your materials.

Pick a plan and a coordinated style package, place it in a designed setting or on a photo of your own section, and export the schedule. It carries through to your plan set.

LOADING THE STUDIO…
SELECTIONS SAVE IN YOUR BROWSER · SHAREABLE LINK INSIDE THE STUDIOOpen the studio page ↗
02 · WHY BUILD ONE

Your backyard, working harder.

A second little home is whatever you need it to be: steady rent coming in, the parents close by, a first place for adult kids, or the space your family's been short on.

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RENTAL INCOME POTENTIAL / WK

Typical long-term rent for a warm, compliant two-bed minor dwelling in regional NZ.

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MORE LIVING SPACE

A proper two-bedroom home's worth of room, on land you already own, with no consent to wait on.

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SITE TO KEYS

One crew, one timeline. It's earning or housing family before the year turns.

03 · THE CALCULATOR

What would yours cost?

Slide the size, pick a finish, tell us about the site. A ballpark in seconds, a real number once we see your address.

FLOOR AREA60
30 M²40506070 M²
FINISH
YOUR SITE
ESTIMATED BUILD COST
$200,000
to $230,000
FINISH RATE$3,550 / M²
TIME ON SITE11–13 wks
PLAN SETINCLUDED
Get real numbers for my address

A ballpark for budgeting, not a quote. Your address sets the real number. Includes design, delivery and foundations; excludes land.

04 · BUILT FROM THESE PLANS

Already standing.

All showcases ↗
Full-bleed · Kōwhai 60, Raglan
Kōwhai 60
RAGLAN · 2 BED · 60 M² · 11 WKS SITE TO KEYS
Fern 48, Ōtaki
Fern 48
ŌTAKI · 2 BED · 48 M² · 9 WKS
Rātā 70, Rangiora
Rātā 70
RANGIORA · 3 BED · 70 M² · 13 WKS
05 · FROM THE BACKYARDS

Word from the back fence.

The flat went from 'maybe one day' to keys in eleven weeks, and the rent now covers our whole mortgage top-up.

SARAH & BEN T. · KŌWHAI 60 · RAGLAN

Dad's ten steps away now, not two hours. That's what we actually bought.

PRIYA N. · FERN 48 · ŌTAKI

Our builder called them the tidiest drawings he'd ever worked from. He's on his second Seventy now.

MARK R. · RĀTĀ 70 · RANGIORA
06 · ASKED & ANSWERED, BY OWNERS

Real questions. Owner answers.

The questions everyone asks us, answered by the people who've already built one.

Did you really skip the consent?

Completely. The set came with the exemption paperwork. Council just wanted the record of works. Nothing to lodge, nothing to wait on.

SARAH & BEN · KŌWHAI 60 · RAGLAN
What did it actually cost?

We budgeted off the calculator and landed within four percent of the final bill on a Classic spec. No nasty extras.

MEL & JONO · KŌWHAI 60 · TAURANGA
How disruptive was the build?

Eleven weeks of trucks in the driveway, then quiet. The lawn recovered before summer did.

PRIYA · FERN 48 · ŌTAKI
Is 60m² actually liveable?

Two of us plus a spaniel. It doesn't feel small, it feels edited: the storage is smarter than our old villa's.

DAN & CASS · KŌWHAI 60 · RAGLAN
Does it rent well?

Listed on a Thursday, tenanted by Monday: $580 a week. It's the easiest asset we own.

STEPH · FERN 48 · ŌTAKI
Would your builder use the plans again?

He's building his second Seventy as we speak. Says the bracing schedule alone saved him a week.

MARK · RĀTĀ 70 · RANGIORA

Take your estimate
with you.

One email: your calculator numbers, the matching plan set, and a printable site checklist. That's it.

YOUR BALLPARK · 60 m² · Classic finish · $200,000$230,000
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