Testimonials for Tania J Coward Architect

5 November 2025

Tania has meticulously planned the transformation of our character Queensland dwelling into a modern spacious home. This has involved careful consideration of our changing family needs over time and separate stages and really appreciated her vision for how this could be achieved to accommodate our changing needs. The second and largest stage of the renovation has just been completed with her thoughtful and detailed plans being critical to the success of the project. We are really excited to be returning to our beautifully updated home.

Todd and Kirinya

4 December 2024

We began working with Tania Coward in early 2021 on the restoration of our Queenslander, with the intention of creating a welcoming and functional home for our multigenerational family. From the outset, Tania impressed us with her professionalism, creativity, and deep understanding of traditional Queenslander architecture. She brought a thoughtful and considered approach to every aspect of the project. Tania designed beautiful open-plan living and entertaining areas for the whole family to enjoy, while also creating more intimate and private spaces tailored to the individual needs of each family member. Her design accommodated our unique requirements as a multigenerational family, including a smaller, separate kitchen, dining, and living room, as well as a semi-detached bedroom and ensuite for added privacy. She worked with the original layout of the house to enhance natural flow, ventilation, and light throughout—all without the need for air conditioning. The outdoor spaces ...

3 September 2024

Tania has designed for us two beautiful homes. The first was 15yrs. ago and it was a home that we were more than happy with, when we decided to embark on the complete renovation of a 40yr. old rural property - once again we turned to Tania, confident that with her assistance, expertise and patience, that we would find the home that we now needed. The understanding of the effect that climate has on our lifestyle enabled Tania to place special emphasis on climate control, in both designs, ensuring that we captured the cool summer breezes and warm winter sun.

Tania’s architectural skills and overall attention to detail is impeccable, she is always there for you, approachable and available to contact at any time. Easy to work with the honesty, integrity and enthusiasm that she shows cannot be rivalled, it has been our pleasure to have her work for us. Tania, thank you for turning our dreams and ideas into reality.

Norma and Glen

1 July 2019

We have gone from what looked like a great design and would fit our requirements to having lived in the end-result for nearly 12 months. And the result has been nothing short of wonderful. But first, some background. 15 years ago, we used Tania to design what turned out to be a house that worked brilliantly with our season of life and priorities. We chose Tania again to design our new home, one for our next season in life, and one that takes advantage of the views of beautiful Raby Bay. The design was dramatically different in size and layout from last time. Why? Because Tania listened and thought through the different season of life, our family, work, and social priorities, the unique aspects of the block we were building on and the very real constraints we gave her around overall budget. This was a challenging block to work with, but Tania came up with a design we were hoping would fit in with what we were trying to achieve. She then helped us with a shortlist of quality builde...

A + C Zerk, New Residence at Ormiston

1 December 2018

Amazing service, great advice and wonderful person. Couldn't be happier with the results and overall process working with Tania. Having an architect that truly understand the construction process has been a huge advantage and has helped to achieve a wonderful result for the customers and the builders.

Rowan Anderson

1 March 2018

I have just spent my first week living in my new home. The flow and feel of the house is exactly what I wanted and imagined, and the stunning mountain view I have from my property has been done justice.

During the 2 years I worked with Tania Coward to achieve this fantastic outcome, we had to face several challenges due to changes in my personal life. But Tania's professional and kind nature saw us through these challenges and made the journey positive and fun.

I recommend Tania Coward as an Architect/Designer to anyone who is looking for high quality work!

Isabel Hanegraaf, Mapleton house

1 June 2016

We were building a luxury family retreat on our rural property 3 hours drive from Brisbane. It took many false starts with the concept before we settled on what we decided we needed. The process was handled competently by Ms Coward. Her own experience of rural living helped us reach our desired outcome. Not only was the design what we needed Ms coward also handled the many issues that arose with the builder in a helpful, co-operative way. Over the length of the project we felt we had not only built a fabulous house to allow several generations of our family to enjoy the property we had also gained a friend. Ms Coward, also an interior designer, chose the colors and basic fabrics for the furniture we bought to complete the look we wanted. The result is very easy on the eye and comfortable to live in. I would have no hesitation in recommending ms Coward to anyone needing an Architect/Designer. We are 100percent satisfied. ...

Di Baldwin

1 October 2006

Boulevard Towers Body Corporate decided to completely renovate the aging common area amenities of the 61 unit 16 floor holiday apartment building on the Broadbeach beach frontage.

Tania Coward took a modern and stylish approach to the whole space and provided innovative design and attention to detail.

An inviting new BBQ pavilion with modern facilities, revised outdoor pool and surrounds and a magnificent new spa that cleverly integrates with the garden setting has been extremely well received by the unit owners and tenants alike. The project will be completed over the next 18 months and Tania J Coward Architect has provided a service that has given our podium level the much needed and stylish upgrade.

Henry Hawes, Chairman for the Boulevard Towers Body Corporate

1 August 2017

The true test about using someone to provide a service is "given your time again, would you use them again"? Well, 15 years ago we used Tania to design a very large house on the bayside in Brisbane. At the time we wanted to build a house that would be a place where our sons would want to bring their friends as they went through the latter part of primary school and then high school and Uni. We also wanted somewhere we could regularly and frequently entertain large numbers of people, and yet where you could still have some personal space. That, plus take advantage of the sea breezes on the bayside. But we hate wasted space as well. Tania came up with a design that ticked all of the boxes. Amazingly practical, and flexible in how some of the spaces could be used during the different phases of our children's lives. Yet it still had (has) that "wow" factor when you step in. When we recently did some inspections of other new and older places which were designed for people at a similar sta...

Andrew Zerk

1 October 2016

t has been a great pleasure working with Tania, her professionalism and enthusiasm has created our dream home. The specific design we asked for was a Cape Cod style house with a high pitched roof and dormer windows on a sloping block.
Not only our design wishes were fully met but at the same time Tania made sure the view of our rural block would be utilised to the maximum. Tania's knowledge of materials is phenomenal and she has been talking tirelessly with suppliers and consultants to make sure we could optimise the design we were after. We received samples and documentation of every single selection we made, we have visited many showrooms to decide on fittings and all this has been well documented.
The complete set of drawings is highly detailed what assures us our builder will build exactly the home we designed with Tania. ...

Isabel H - Mapleton

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