About Home Base / 2021—present

A home is more than the sum of its rooms.

It is the work you put into it. The decisions made quietly, over years. Home Base is a place to keep that story — clear, useful and ready for whoever comes next.

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A Home Base property journal on a timber desk

The house book, reimagined

Why we exist

The handover should feel like a beginning, not an interrogation.

We kept hearing the same story: a new owner arrives with a folder of invoices, a handful of half-remembered answers, and a long list of things they wish they had asked. Important knowledge disappears between owners.

Home Base began as a simple question: what if every property had a living record? Not a compliance file, but a generous, honest account of the care that has gone into it.

We built the tool we wanted to receive ourselves — a quiet place for the facts, the photographs and the little decisions that make a house a home.

A tradition worth keeping

The Nordichúsbók

In Scandinavia, a house book has long been part of the life of a well-kept home.

It holds the practical knowledge that otherwise lives in one person’s head: when the roof was repaired, which paint is on the hallway walls, where the water shuts off. More than a ledger, it is an act of stewardship — a promise that the house will be understood and cared for.

We borrowed the idea, then made it useful for Australian homes. A digital house book that is as considered as the homes it records.

How Home Base works

One calm place for the life of your property.

  1. 01

    Set the scene

    Add your property, its history and the people who know it best.

  2. 02

    Keep the record

    Log maintenance, renovations and documents as life happens.

  3. 03

    Build confidence

    See what has been done, when, and by whom — at a glance.

  4. 04

    Pass it on

    Share a complete, useful record at sale or settlement.

Our principles

The way we choose to work.

A home is not a transaction. We make space for the small, important work of looking after one.

A better record starts here

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