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Upgrade with confidence.​

We are your home upgrade partner - making existing homes comfortable, energy efficient and future ready.​

Panacea Design is a Perth and Peel based home comfort and energy upgrade concierge service helping homeowners and property investors make better decisions about improving existing homes.

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We combine whole of home assessment, independent advice, strategic planning and trusted coordination to simplify what can otherwise be a fragmented and confusing process.

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At our core, we replace confusion with clarity and uncertainty with a practical pathway to action.

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Hello,
I'm Karla.

I'm guessing that you found Panacea Design because your home or investment property is not performing as you'd like it to. Maybe it's too hot or too cold, or its costing a lot of time and money to run and maintain, or you have a hunch that it could be so much better and you'd like to change that. This is where you start. You've come to the right place, I'm so glad that you're here!

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Panacea Design exists because I wanted to give homeowners and property investors the clarity, confidence and trusted guidance they need to create more comfortable, healthy, energy efficient and future ready homes.

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Trust, collaboration, practicality and integrity guide every interaction you will have with us.

Karla Fox-Reynolds Founder of Panacea Design

Our story.

Improving a home should feel empowering. Too often, it doesn’t.

Homeowners and property investors receive conflicting recommendations from different trades. Individual upgrades are considered in isolation. Decisions are often triggered by something failing rather than by a clear understanding of what the property needs over the longer term. The result is uncertainty.

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What should happen first?

Which improvements will make the greatest difference?

What is worth investing in now?

Which advice is genuinely independent?

How do all the pieces work together?

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Panacea Design was created to help answer those questions.

From assessment to action.

Panacea Design began with home comfort and energy assessment, but it quickly became clear that identifying problems was only part of what clients needed. The greater value was helping people move from understanding their home to successfully improving it.

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Today, the Panacea Design home upgrade process can bring together:

  • whole of home comfort and energy assessment

  • NatHERS Home Energy Rating

  • personalised home comfort and energy upgrade action plan

  • independent decision support

  • strategic sequencing of improvements

  • trusted trade and contractor connections

  • project coordination and quality assurance

  • ongoing support through the upgrade journey

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The result is a clearer, more connected pathway from “I know something needs to change.” to “We upgraded the right things, in the right order.”

A home upgrade assessor uses a thermal imaging camera

A different kind of expertise.

Home upgrade and performance advice can feel technical, transactional and difficult to navigate. Panacea Design takes a different approach. We bring technical knowledge and building science together with practical understanding of how people actually live in and improve their homes.

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Our approach is:

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Independent
Our recommendations are based on your home and your priorities, not on selling a particular product or trade.

Whole of home
We look at how different parts of the home work together rather than treating each upgrade in isolation.

Practical
Technical knowledge is translated into clear actions and realistic priorities.

Collaborative
We work with homeowners, property investors, property professionals and trusted industry partners to achieve better outcomes.

Long term
We consider what will improve the home now while helping prepare it for the years ahead.​

Ready to make a plan for your home?

Ready to make a plan for your investment property?

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