Castlecrag is home — literally. Trusted is based here, which means the ute is five minutes away, I know which streets a delivery truck can't turn into, and I've spent years working on the suburb's famously individual houses: Walter Burley Griffin's stone-and-landscape originals, mid-century infill tucked into bush blocks, and everything since.
Building here is its own discipline. Blocks fall away toward Middle Harbour, gardens grow on sandstone shelves, and much of the suburb sits in a conservation area where what you build — and what you can see from the street — matters to Willoughby Council. I design decks, pergolas and fences that work with those constraints instead of fighting them.
What I do in Castlecrag
Most of my Castlecrag work is outdoors: decks stepped down sloping bush blocks, pergolas shaded under angophoras, and fencing that respects the suburb's open-garden character — in the Griffin conservation precincts, fence design is genuinely restricted, and I'll tell you what's allowed before you commit to anything.
Indoors it's carpentry and joinery for houses where nothing is square, kitchen renovations led by proper cabinetry, and the handyman list — often for neighbours who've seen the van parked on their street for years.