Residential Architecture
Grove Studio is a Melbourne-based architecture and interior design practice. We specialise in residential renovations and extensions, with a particular love for heritage homes.
We work with residential clients who want a home that is personal, carefully resolved, and properly managed from first conversation through to construction.
We bring curiosity, practical knowledge and a love of design to every project. Your interests and the way you want to live inform the work, alongside the history of the house and the character of its surroundings. Through close collaboration with you, we develop these influences into architecture and interiors with a character of their own.
About the Practice
We fundamentally believe a home should be a pleasure to live in.
A home should bring people together, offer respite from busy days and adapt as life changes. We see lasting usefulness as an important part of our approach to sustainability.
We design architecture and interiors together, from the floor plan to the door handles. We care about how things are made, how materials age and how a home feels to use. Much of that care goes into anticipating ordinary actions: where you put the groceries down, how you move between preparing food and washing up, or whether you can step outside to cook under cover when it rains. Thinking these things through is part of making a home a pleasure to live in.
The practice takes on a small number of projects, with Dylan leading each one throughout. This allows time to get to know our clients, develop ideas together and see those ideas through documentation and construction.
Those relationships are a lovely part of the work, and often continue long after clients have moved in.
About Dylan Grove
Dylan Grove is a registered architect with over a decade of experience in architecture and interiors across Melbourne and Copenhagen. He leads each project personally, bringing creative ambition and the practical knowledge to carry ideas through construction.
His approach draws on research, design history and a love of materials and making. He enjoys finding connections between architecture, interiors and objects, developing ideas that give each home its own identity.
Personable and proactive, Dylan works through complex questions and explains them clearly, helping clients understand their options and make informed decisions. He works closely with consultants, builders and makers to keep the design’s ambition intact as the project develops.
Originally from New Zealand, Dylan studied architecture at RMIT in Melbourne and undertook an exchange at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. His time in Denmark deepened his appreciation for the relationship between buildings, furniture and craft.
Registered Architect, Victoria
Master of Architecture, RMIT University
Bachelor of Architectural Design, RMIT University