Cal and Matt in the kitchen

Built for the few, not for the many.

Design-led homes across Melbourne's inner north.

Our approach

We build a limited number of design-led homes each year.

Not more, but better.

Every Oviss home is acquired, designed and built by the same team, from the first walkthrough of a site, to the day the keys change hands. Nothing is handed off, and nothing is hurried along to suit a schedule.

That way of working shapes what we take on. We would rather spend a year getting the light right in one house than spread ourselves thin across five, and we're patient enough to hold a home back until it's ready.

For us, luxury has never had much to do with expensive stone. It's a house that works beautifully on an ordinary Tuesday morning, not just on the day you show it to friends.

Forma, street elevation render
Solace, the entry
Arbour, street elevation
Lumen — exterior front view
Haven, entry render
Contouré, street render
Blanc, entry render
Rouge, street elevation render

Projects

Five homes in progress at any one time, and each one finished before the next begins in earnest. We keep the pipeline that size on purpose, so every house gets the attention it was drawn for.

The Next Chapter
The Oviss Legacy
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Journal

Built Before Us

Cal walks through the houses that came before ours. Who built them, what they were built for, and why some of them are still the best thing on the street a hundred years later.

Cal on site for Built Before Us, episode one

Episode one

Ruckers Hill

The ridge that decided how Northcote was built, and why nobody builds that way now.

Coming soon

Episode two

The Building That Helped Create a Suburb

In production now.