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About Ashby & Crane

Two carpenters, one crew, no handover gaps.

Ashby & Crane started in 2009 with two carpenters, one ute and a rule: the people who quote a job build it.

A builder going over drawings with a couple at a workbench on site

Our story

We still work that way. There are fourteen of us now, carpenters, a tiler, a cabinetmaker and two site leads, and every job has one of those site leads from the first measure to the last coat of oil.

We take on about twenty-five jobs a year. That's deliberate. It means we turn up when we say we will, we know every house we're working in, and our clients have one phone number that always gets answered.

Most of our work comes from people who've seen a neighbour's kitchen or a friend's extension. We'd like to keep it that way.

  • 17years renovating
  • 380+kitchens and bathrooms
  • 64rear extensions
  • 12weeks for a typical kitchen

What we stand by

Three things we won't budge on.

  1. 01

    One person in charge

    Your site lead runs the job, orders the materials and answers your calls. You never have to explain things twice.

  2. 02

    A price you can plan around

    Line-by-line fixed quotes, and changes priced in writing before we do them.

  3. 03

    Tidy, every night

    Floors covered, dust sheeted off, tools packed away. You're still living there.

Why Ashby & Crane

We're a small builder on purpose. The person who measures your kitchen runs the job, and the crew who pulls out the old one fits the new one. Nothing gets lost between a salesperson and a subcontractor, because there isn't one.

Recent work

On the job.

A few recent jobs around Melbourne's inner east. Tap a photo to see it bigger.

  • A black-clad rear extension at dusk with big glass doors, lit inside, opening onto a timber deck
  • A bathroom with a freestanding white bath, green tiled walls, terrazzo floor and a timber-framed window
  • A carpenter fitting a brass pull to a deep green cabinet door with a cordless drill
  • A rear extension under construction: a new timber frame on a slab beside the old weatherboard house

Where we work

Based in Camberwell, working across Melbourne's inner east.

  • Camberwell
  • Hawthorn
  • Kew
  • Balwyn
  • Canterbury
  • Surrey Hills
  • Box Hill
  • Glen Iris
  • Malvern East
  • Ashburton
  • Mont Albert
  • Burwood

Got a room that doesn't work?

Book a measure-up. We'll come out, talk it through and send you a fixed price within ten working days.