Novant is a Melbourne-based design and fabrication studio specialising in bespoke entry doors. We work with architects, interior designers and homeowners who want something made properly.
The studio
Novant was founded on a single conviction: that the most important moments in a home deserve the same level of care as the architecture around them. An entry door is not a fitting. It is the threshold to the whole house, a made object that will outlast almost every other decision in the build.
We operate from our Brighton workshop, where a small team of craftspeople works across aluminium and steel fabrication, glazing and finishing. Every door is built from scratch to a signed-off workshop drawing. Nothing leaves the workshop until it is right.
The process
Drawing to delivery, every step
Every Novant commission follows the same four steps. We draw it. We model it. We make it. We deliver it. Each step requires your sign-off before the next begins, so there are no surprises on site and no value-engineering decisions made without you.
The result is a piece that fits the space exactly as drawn, delivered on a schedule that respects your broader program.
How we work
From brief to delivered
Drawing
We start with your brief and produce detailed workshop drawings for review. Scale, material, profile and fixing are all resolved on paper before any fabrication begins.
3D modelling
Complex pieces are modelled in 3D so you can review the geometry, sight lines and material relationships before sign-off. Changes cost nothing at this stage.
Fabrication
Our craftspeople build each door in the workshop, combining skilled hand fabrication with CNC precision where it adds value. Finishes are applied and inspected before dispatch.
Delivery
Every door is delivered finished, protected and ready to hang, coordinated with your site program.
Materials
We work in three primary material families: aluminium, steel and glass. Within each, we source selectively. Aluminium is chosen for strength, a stable finish and weather resistance. Glass is specified for clarity, privacy and thermal performance. Steel is fabricated to tight tolerances and finished to your specification, from raw to blackened to powder-coated.
We also work with hybrid doors: an entry door might combine a blackened steel frame with a woodgrain-finish aluminium leaf and a glazed sidelight. These decisions happen in the drawing phase, not on site.
Made once, made properly.
Our values
We believe in making things that last. Not trend-driven pieces that date, but objects with quiet confidence in their material and their making. Novant work should look better in ten years than it does on the day it is installed.
We work with a limited number of commissions at any one time so every project receives the attention it deserves. If we are fully booked, we will tell you rather than let quality slip.
