Custom architectural homes.
Built one at a time.

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Built to: NZS 3604
Structure: Solid timber
Delivered: Finished

North elevation of the Paragon show home drawn as a cutaway — lounge, dining, kitchen and bathroom shown in section — North elevation · section

Sections through a Paragon Portables transportable dwelling, drawn by Choice Architecture for building consent — Drawn

A Paragon Portables builder fitting cladding by hand over the cavity battens — Built

Drawn by Choice Architecture

A large Paragon architectural home with a black standing-seam gable roof and vertical cedar cladding, in an open paddock at golden hour

What we can build

Custom & architectural builds

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Above Code: More insulation, glazing or structure than the Code asks for.
Tricky sites: Steep, narrow, remote or unserviced. Built in the workshop and craned in.
Off-grid: Solar, batteries, tank water and wastewater, specified with the home.
High end: Cedar or redwood, stone benchtops, custom joinery.
Your own plan: Built to your architect’s set.
More than one: Several homes built in batches to one specification.

Explore it in 3D

Tap any part to see how it’s made.

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See what it is and how it’s made

The roof, the cladding, the deck, the windows. Press “How it’s built” to open up the walls.

Drag to turn · tap any part · “How it’s built” opens the walls

In progress

A home being drawn now.

The Paragon show home from the west — vertical cedar cladding, a standing seam gable roof and a timber deck — West · artist impression

The Paragon show home from the north — full-height glazing onto the deck — North · artist impression

Interior perspectives of the Paragon show home — the lounge and the master bedroom — Lounge & master · perspective

Interior elevations of the show home kitchen, dimensioned to the millimetre — Kitchen · interior elevations

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Fewer, better decisions

The decisions are already narrowed to good ones.

Most build stress is decision stress. We give you a short list at each stage, in the order the build needs them, with the structural ones marked as structural.

01

Shortlisted

Every finish on the list is one we already build with and already stand behind.
02

Sequenced

Decisions arrive when the build needs them — not all at once at the start.
03

Documented

Everything you choose is photographed and specified in a selection book before it is ordered.
04

Reversible, until it is not

We tell you plainly which choices lock at consent and which stay open.

Where they go

Coast, paddock, high country

The same home on three sites.

A Paragon gable home on a dune terrace above a South Island surf beach, marram grass in the foreground and a headland beyond

01 Marine terrace

Coastal retirement

A Paragon gable home alone in an open Canterbury paddock at golden hour, a shelterbelt and the foothills on the horizon

02 Open paddock

Rural freedom

A Paragon gable home on a tussock terrace in the South Island high country with a snow-capped range behind it

03 Tussock terrace

High country escape

Artist impressions · the Paragon show home placed on three sites

Design tool

See your home on your section.

Change cladding, colour, roof line or glazing and the price updates.

Book a design session

A Paragon Portables home previewed on its own section

How it works

Four steps, one person.

One

The conversation

Your site, brief and budget.
Two

The design

Concept drawings and a fixed price.
Three

The build

Hand-crafted solid timber, built to NZS 3604 in Ohoka. Weekly photos.
Four

The delivery

Transported, craned, levelled and connected.