A small practice, built around the long conversation.
We are builders who like to be in the room early — before the slab, before the steel, while a house is still an idea worth arguing about.
Verso was founded by Iris Calloway and Daniel Okafor, a draftsperson and a carpenter who met on a stalled job in Annandale and decided there had to be a better way to build a house. Sixteen years on, the practice is still small by choice: one bench, one site at a time, and a standing rule that we never run the same plan twice.
The name is a printer's term — the verso is the left-hand page, the quiet one you read first. It is how we think about a home: the considered, lived-in side of a life, made carefully and meant to last. We measure twice, mark up by hand, and would rather lose a tender than rush a house.
Fewer, better
A handful of homes a year. The cap is the point — it is how each house gets the attention it needs.
Honest from day one
Real numbers early, even the uncomfortable ones. No house should arrive at a surprise.
Made to be lived in
We design for a Tuesday morning, not a photograph. The house has to work when no one is looking.