At Derbyshire our philosophy is simple – deliver outstanding craftsmanship to build beautiful homes that exceed client expectations.

Derbyshire is a family business with a team focused on creating a better build experience. Outcomes are front of mind, creating a collaborative and stress-free experience for each client to help turn their vision into reality. 

Your new Geelong custom home will be carefully brought to life by experienced professionals; architects, designers, and project management staff and supported by Franklin, the Derbyshire office dog and self-appointed motivational speaker.

Comprehensive Design and Build Process: Luxury home builders in Geelong 

Our comprehensive design process engages local Geelong Architects to provide greater creative exploration. Derbyshire draws on over 25 years of award-winning building experience to enhance the design of each home – with live pricing through our estimator to ensure your project stays on budget. Culminating in an enjoyable journey from concept to handover.

The building industry is renowned for schedule and budget blow-outs, it doesn’t need to be this way. Clients enjoy working with Derbyshire for many reasons, none more so than constant communication, updated project schedules and commitment to meeting the deadline.

To read about our Build Process in detail, click here.

Architectural Design + Better Build Experience

Architectural pleasures are often taken from the simplest of moments. Some of the most revered architecture celebrates the simple nuances of a home including its angles, layout and design in relation to its surrounding environment.

Designing architectural homes is a very rewarding profession. Marrying a client’s needs and vision with our knowledge and creativity, is a process we love. At Derbyshire we know how subtle design features make a home unique.

Our years of experience working with architects in Geelong, coupled with the craftsmanship of our trades, means our homes maintain a design performance for many years after they’re built.

Custom Home Builders, Geelong: The Derbyshire Story

Derbyshire Homes is the realisation of a dream. As a young builder working out of the back of his old green Kombi, Noel Derbyshire could see his industry being filled with companies that simply reproduced more and more variants of the same house – as if each fell from a giant cookie-cutter. Few bothered to challenge the status quo or alter the norm.

It was this idea that drove Noel Derbyshire to break away from the volume building model that dominated the building industry in the late 1980s.

Sticking to his belief that building a home should be an exciting and personal journey and the finished product a symbol of pride, the Derbyshire team has grown from a one man band, to a high quality team designing and building homes from $300k to upwards of $3m.

Today the award winning team at Derbyshire is made up of experienced professionals; estimators, construction managers, supervisors and design consultants. The core values of quality, communication, pride and integrity still permeate throughout the business 25 years later.