Build a Healthier Future with Our Eco-Friendly Homes

CREATING HEALTHY, ENERGY EFFICIENT & SUSTAINABLE ECO HOMES

Welcome to the forefront of home building.

Specialising in creating new, healthy homes, Premium Homes eco-builds to the Foreverbreathe specification, delivering environmental friendliness, energy efficiency, and wellness.

Premium Homes is an award-winning home-building company based in Christchurch, NZ. We are residential eco-home builders specialising in sustainable and energy-efficient homes

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Build, find or repair your dream home

ECO HOME PLANS

Whether you’re interested in a pre-designed House & Land Package or a custom Design/Build to fit your lot, our skilled team is here to assist you.

Check the 2025 range of Premium Homes house plans and be inspired. Homes built by Premium Homes look great and they are more comfortable and energy efficient too, so they save you money.

Premium Homes house plans are eco-friendly, sustainable and energy efficient, built from low toxin materials, providing the best living environment for your family.

Premium Homes house plans tick the boxes for future building requirements – Don’t be left high and dry because you built a house that doesn’t meet the requirements of the very near future.

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DESIGN & BUILD YOUR NEW HOME

As a specialist builder of sustainable homes in Christchurch, we are leading the way for sustainable residential construction across Canterbury and beyond.

If you want a bespoke designed home Premium Homes can help too. Work with your architect/designer or ours. Premium Homes has built award-winning eco- eco-friendly, healthy homes for many happy clients.

Does your home need updating?

Maybe a bathroom that handles moisture better to minimise maintenance and all that hard work cleaning?

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EARTHQUAKE REPAIRS

It’s important to choose the right builder. This is a critical decision for you.

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Award-winning green homes.

Most new homes built in New Zealand are designed to only just meet minimum building code requirements – the lowest level you are legally allowed to build to. People pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for these poorly performing houses.

Although recent changes to insulation requirements represent an improvement on the standard, the new standards don’t create healthy or environmentally friendly homes.

Premium Homes blends award-winning craftsmanship with sustainable, low toxin, natural materials to produce homes of a standard you’ll be proud to own. Our homes are more energy efficient, saving you on energy bills without relying on plastic wraps to achieve air tightness.

The Foreverbreathe wall system that we recommend manages moisture by ‘breathing’ vapour, making your home more comfortable to live in and more durable for the longevity of what’s probably going to be your greatest asset.

We’ll help you through the whole process, from choosing a section (if you need) to organising design, choosing appliances, colours, fixtures & fittings and gaining consent. Our team really does care that you’re thrilled with your healthy new home.

WHY US

1. Qualified Home Builders

Discover Our Green Expertise

Experience the difference with our team of eco-home builders who have the skills and qualifications to bring your sustainable dream home to life, from design to construction.

Quality First

We believe in delivering exceptional quality as well as sustainability in all aspects of our home-building process.

Join us for a better building experience. Contact us today.

2. Commitment to your satisfaction

We prioritise your satisfaction and this is reflected in the quality of our eco homes.

From the time we start talking design with you to the time you move in we are fully committed to providing excellent customer service and will be there with you throughout the entire process.

3. Our Eco Credentials

We have Comprehensive Eco-Building Knowledge and have been awarded through Master Builders for environmental and sustainable excellence.

Our builders are experts in eco-building, resulting in comfortable, energy efficient homes with clean air. Our methods and materials used result in homes that are more sustainable.

Quality and Sustainability First

We believe in delivering exceptional quality and sustainability in all aspects of our eco-home building process. Our builders are dedicated to using high-quality, environmentally friendly materials.

Join us in creating a greener future for your home. Contact us today.

See what our customers say

Customer Experiences

As homeowners of the 2021 Registered Master Builders award winning home, we would like to say we are extremely proud and grateful to the team at Premium Homes. Andrew stood by us through two and a half years of difficult times while we negotiated a successful resolution with our insurance company, which enabled us to manage our own repair.

As this was Phillipa’s family home we wanted to preserve and enhance many of its original features while creating something new and modern.

The project was a pleasurable experience through Premium Homes’ superb craftsmanship, attention to detail, continuous communication and organisation skills. The team was dedicated to the project, and this resulted in a unique house, which we are delighted to call home.

The exchange of ideas between us and the builders was so rewarding and resulted in a finish beyond our initial vision.

“We want to thank you all for the brilliant transformation of our house. The result is wonderful, but the experience was also excellent. Your communication was superb, you were on budget and on time – no mean feat with our 100-year-old house – and added the unforeseen along the way.

So, again, we appreciate your care of us and our home. Thank you.”

Phillipa and Lawson

Cashmere

When we saw the completed build for the first time it was with some well earned awe at the quality of build and craftsmanship, all the little details that couldn’t be captured in photos were realised and we learned how lucky we were to have chosen Premium Homes”

We adore our house Premium Homes built for us in Castle Hill Village. In our search for a building company that could build in a remote location at a high elevation and wind zone, Premium Homes caught our eye with their Healthy Homes building philosophy. They exceed expectations creating a healthier, stronger and more energy efficient house. We were excited by the use of wool insulation and magnum board (in place of fiberglass and Gib) and it has proven its worth in reducing noise, keeping the air clean and feeling fresh and the house breathes not getting too hot nor too cold. Premium Homes were able to effectively go through the build process whilst we were in Australia during COVID times and unable to visit site. No corners were cut and any issues and decision making requirements were communicated and dealt with effectively. When we saw the completed build for the first time it was with some well earned awe at the quality of build and craftsmanship, all the little details that couldn’t be captured in photos were realised and we learned how lucky we were to have chosen Premium Homes. To us, the little extra cost in building a healthy home is well worth it. We are so proud of our house we would love to show it to anyone who is interested in building a healthy home. Who wants to build to the bare minimum requirements when going a little further to improve makes such a big difference? building healthy homes can only improve NZ living and we would now never build any other way. Our heartfelt thanks goes to all the team at Premium Homes for executing such a fantastic home for us.

Thank you.

Georgie and Steve.

Castle Hill

We planned to build a healthy home based on the ancient Indian science of home building (Vastu Sastra), with modern NZ specs, and of course within a budget! Premium Homes met all our requirements. During the very early stages when we lived out of town we were guided through the whole process, from planning to final hand-over.

Groundwork began two days ahead of our timeline and from there construction progressed quickly, with the team making sure all the Vastu aspects were carried out with utmost attention to detail. As with any construction process, we wanted to improvise a few things impromptu. Premium Homes provided insight and were flexible to accommodate these changes. It is also important to emphasise that Premium Homes have a very impressive line-up of sub-contractors, who were friendly and proficient.

Having moved in, the COVID-19 lockdown was a great opportunity to evaluate the performance of the house, and we came to appreciate the workmanship and the healthy aspects of the house.

Overall, when the builders treat your dream project as theirs, the end result is remarkable. The team at Premium Homes are a trustworthy lot.

A&P,

Lincoln

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What makes a Premium Homes Foreverbreathe build a sustainable option?

A: Foreverbreathe homes by Premium Homes use natural materials that are also non-toxic. Linings, insulation and RAB can all be safely composted at the end of the life of the home. Foreverbreathe homes are more energy efficient than a house built to code.

Q: How is Foreverbreathe, by Premium homes, a healthy alternative to passive houses?

A: While passive houses are built to achieve maximum air tightness using plastic wraps with a reliance on mechanical ventilation, Foreverbreathe achieves a desirable level of air-tightness using natural, non-toxic materials to create a healthy environment without plastic wraps or the need to constantly operate mechanical ventilation.

Q: What makes Premium Home builds a healthy option?

A: Indoor air quality is enhanced using natural non-toxic building materials that filter the air rather than adding to toxins. Even the indoor paint is non-toxic as well as breathable.

Q: Why don’t Foreverbreathe homes by Premium Homes suffer from condensation?

A: Premium Homes builds a hygroscopic wall system to take moisture laden air out of the home. The materials used are natural and non-toxic and a Foreverbreathe home is not reliant on the 24/7 operation of mechanical ventilation