Building designer — Newcastle & Hunter Valley, NSW

Your home
starts with a
conversation

Most drafters want your block size. We want to know how you live.

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2020
Building designer, Newcastle NSW
80+
Projects completed since going solo
600km+
Across Hunter Valley & NSW
DA Ready
DA lodgements, NSW Planning Portal

Fast turnaround is easy to promise.
A floor plan your family doesn't grow out of takes longer.

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.

How it works

From conversation
to construction

01

The conversation

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.

02

The concept

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.

03

The approval

Full DA drawing sets lodged via the NSW Planning Portal. Site plans, floor plans, elevations, sections — every document council needs, done properly.

04

The documentation

Detailed construction drawings, specifications and schedules ready for your builder to price and build from. Nothing left to interpretation on site.

What we do

Full-service residential
building design

From the first conversation to the last drawing. Every project handled start to finish, no handoffs.

01

New home design

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.

02

DA drawing sets

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.

03

Alterations & additions

Renovations, extensions, second storeys, outbuildings. We navigate the council requirements so you don't have to.

04

Granny flats

Secondary dwellings and granny flat designs that maximise every square metre within SEPP Housing compliant footprints across NSW. Efficient, considered, and built to last.

05

Construction documentation

Detailed working drawings, specifications and schedules ready for tender and building approval. Nothing left to interpretation on site.

06

3D visualisation

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.

Selected projects

Residential building design projects across Newcastle, the Hunter Valley, and regional NSW — new builds, renovations, rural properties, and everything in between.

Contemporary dark home

Contemporary new home

New build — concept visualisation
Pool house with arches

Pool house

New build — concept visualisation
Alfresco entertaining

Alfresco entertaining

Interior — concept visualisation
Acreage home

Acreage home

New build — concept visualisation
Rural farmhouse

Rural new home

New build — concept visualisation
Brick contemporary home

Brick contemporary

New build — concept visualisation
Open plan living

Open plan living

Interior — concept visualisation
Jaymee Hyland
Jaymee sketching
Jaymee reviewing plans
Jaymee Hyland

The technical
and the considered

Hyland 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.

"I want to know the family before I design the house."

That's not a tagline. It's how every project here actually starts.

Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Practice
Est. 2020 — Newcastle, NSW
Compliance
NCC · BASIX · LEP/DCP
Software
Chief Architect · AutoCAD
ABN
49 974 621 201
Service area
Hunter region & 600km+ across NSW

Let's talk
about your project

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.

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Location
Newcastle, NSW — servicing Hunter Valley, Central Coast, and 600km+ across NSW
Response time
Within 1–2 business days