testimonials

When we bought the original property in 2016 we were still living overseas and had no idea whether we would ever be able to make our dream of living on the South Coast a reality. But when an opportunity came up to work in the area, we felt we had to jump at the chance to be both closer to family and explore the option of knocking down and building a home we could put roots down in.

Our research for a builder started whilst we were living in Melbourne through the peak of COVID. For that reason, all our initial research was done online. We found Evolution Building Group through a google search of local builders in the Wollongong/South Coast area. We loved the idea of them being a smaller, local builder and the testimonials they had on their website came across as genuine and very positive. On their website, we were able to go through the Suffolk Display home virtually and we found ourselves coming back to the virtual tour over and over again.

As we weren't able to travel to NSW to get to the display home at the time, we did all our initial communication with Jaison by phone and email. He was so down to earth and knowledgeable and spent huge amounts of time with us answering questions that we had about the process, costing, making changes to the floor plan and timelines. Evolution Building Group were patient with us as we went through a million questions and then needed to pause any further decisions until we were able to get up to the display home in person to really make sure it was the one for us.

Once we were able to get to the Suffolk in person it was even better than we expected. We walked in and it immediately felt different to any other display homes we had walked through. We felt there had been so much thought put in to making it stand out - mainly the use of the internal roof lines, sky lights and high ceilings. We loved that from the outside it was actually quite modest, and you couldn't even tell there was a second level. We found out you could build the Suffolk without the loft but once we had been upstairs it was hard not to picture that as our own retreat. It didn't take us long to commit to building our own Suffolk.

During the design process Jaison was fantastic in helping us reconfigure the floor plan slightly to allow for a bigger garage/home gym space. When it came to making all the design selections, Anissa helped guide us through the options and helped me when I got 'stuck' on decisions. She even promised to help me make sure I didn't shy away from bolder colour choices. The number of decisions that need to me made through the process was huge, but Anissa made me feel confident that the decisions I was making would be ones I was happy with.

Once construction started, Evolution Building helped us navigate HUGE amounts of rain and many additional questions about the progress outside of our normal 'check ins'. Each step in the construction process was exciting to see and we were always impatient to get on site to have a sticky beak. When we got to handover day, we already knew it was looking just like we had hoped it would.

It hasn't taken us long to settle into our happy place. It really does feel like Evolution has helped us create a space that works just right for our family. We had a pretty clear vision of what we felt would work well after living in 13 different houses in 20 years and we are ALL so in love with the idea of creating memories in this space for many years to come.

With thanks Carly & Alexander!