
Architectural New Builds
Architect-designed homes built exactly as drawn, with the detailing and finish the design deserves.
Reimagine your space with a renovation designed to enhance your daily life. We specialise in clean transitions, elegant finishes and smart functionality, from a single room to the whole house.

A good renovation changes how a house works, not just how it looks. Opening a 1970s kitchen into the living room. Taking a dark hallway and turning it into the heart of the home. Reworking a floor plan so the bedrooms are away from the noise. Create Built is a Tauranga renovation builder that plans the whole thing with you, then delivers it with one team from strip-out to final clean.
Renovations are where a builder's process matters most, because you are usually living in or around the work. We sequence the job to keep disruption to a minimum, protect the parts of the house we are not touching, and keep you told about what is happening tomorrow, not just what happened today.
A lot of our renovation work is in the established parts of the city: Otumoetai, Bethlehem, Greerton, Brookfield, Welcome Bay and the older streets of Mount Maunganui. These homes were often built well but for a different way of living, and many have decades of small changes layered on top. We know what to expect behind the linings, how to deal with it, and how to make the new work look like it was always there.
If your renovation has an architect or interior designer involved, we work directly with them. If it does not and the scope is more than a straightforward refit, we will tell you honestly whether a designer would pay for themselves, and introduce you to people we trust. Either way, the plan is agreed and priced before we start, with clear communication and no cookie-cutter solutions.
Renovation prices vary enormously with scope, so we do not quote off the phone. We visit, talk through what you want, look at the house, and then give you an itemised quote. Where there is genuine uncertainty, for example what is inside a wall we cannot see yet, we say so up front and allow for it rather than surprise you later.
Kitchen and bathroom renovations
Often, yes. For a kitchen, a bathroom or one wing of the house we can stage the work so you keep a working kitchen and bathroom throughout. For a whole-home renovation it is usually easier and cheaper to move out for the main phase. We will tell you which applies once we have seen the scope.
It depends on the work. Removing or altering structural walls, changing plumbing layouts, adding rooms or changing the exterior generally needs a consent from Tauranga City Council; a like-for-like kitchen or bathroom refit in the same position usually does not. We will tell you what applies and coordinate the consent process if one is needed.
A bathroom might be a few weeks; a whole-home renovation several months. We give you a programme with your quote and keep you told as it progresses. Older houses can hold surprises behind the linings, and we allow for that in the programme rather than pretending it never happens.
Yes. A single room, a new entrance, a wall coming out, a deck off the living room. Smaller jobs get the same care as large ones.

Architect-designed homes built exactly as drawn, with the detailing and finish the design deserves.

Weathertight recladding for leaky, tired or dated homes, managed from assessment to sign-off.

Extra bedrooms, bigger living spaces and second storeys that blend seamlessly with the existing home.

The two rooms that change a home the most, planned and built by one team from strip-out to final clean.

Decks, covered outdoor rooms, fences and screens built to last in the Bay of Plenty climate.
Call James on 022 502 6242, Ben on 027 900 8804, or the office on 07 777 0112.