Building designer — Newcastle & Hunter Valley, NSW
Most drafters want your block size. We want to know how you live.
The residential drafting industry runs on volume. Quick DA approvals, templated layouts, minimal back-and-forth. That works fine if you want a house. It doesn't work if you want your house.
We take the time to understand the people before we draw the plans. It shows up in layouts that feel considered — because they are.
We start by getting to know you — how you live, what matters to you, what you've tried before. No site measurements yet. Just a conversation.
Site analysis, preliminary layouts, and 3D visualisation so you can feel the space before anything is committed to paper. We refine until it's right.
Full DA drawing sets lodged via the NSW Planning Portal. Site plans, floor plans, elevations, sections — every document council needs, done properly.
Detailed construction drawings, specifications and schedules ready for your builder to price and build from. Nothing left to interpretation on site.
From the first conversation to the last drawing. Every project handled start to finish, no handoffs.
Custom residential building design from concept to construction documentation across Newcastle, the Hunter Valley, and regional NSW. New builds, knockdown rebuilds — designed around how you actually want to live.
Complete DA drawing sets lodged via the NSW Planning Portal. Site plans, floor plans, elevations and sections — compliant with Newcastle City Council, Hunter councils, and beyond.
Renovations, extensions, second storeys, outbuildings. We navigate the council requirements so you don't have to.
Secondary dwellings and granny flat designs that maximise every square metre within SEPP Housing compliant footprints across NSW. Efficient, considered, and built to last.
Detailed working drawings, specifications and schedules ready for tender and building approval. Nothing left to interpretation on site.
Rendered 3D models so you can feel the space before it's built. Most people can't read a floor plan — everyone can read a render.
Residential building design projects across Newcastle, the Hunter Valley, and regional NSW — new builds, renovations, rural properties, and everything in between.
Contemporary new home
New build — concept visualisationPool house
New build — concept visualisationAlfresco entertaining
Interior — concept visualisationAcreage home
New build — concept visualisationRural new home
New build — concept visualisationBrick contemporary
New build — concept visualisationOpen plan living
Interior — concept visualisationHyland Drafting is, in full, me — Jaymee Hyland. One building designer, based in Newcastle NSW, working on every project. That means the person you contact is the person who draws your plans, who knows your site, who remembers what you said in the first conversation.
The practice is grounded in a trade background spanning carpentry, drafting, and frame and truss detailing. A Bachelor of Fine Arts brings a trained eye for proportion, form, and spatial logic to the table — something that shows up in layouts that feel right, not just plans that pass council.
That's not a tagline. It's how every project here actually starts.
Based in Newcastle and working across the Hunter Valley and NSW. Whether you have a brief or just an idea — get in touch and we'll have a conversation first. No obligation, no quote form, just a chat.