Hardware Lane Studio

The name

Three words. Three jobs.

Hardware

What we make is the project's hardware — the name, the brand, the plan, the renderings, the site, the signs. The physical kit a project needs before it exists.

Lane

Take your own lane. A project with its own name, look and price argument isn't competing in the general listings. And we stay in ours: land and residential presales — estate lots, subdivisions and neighborhoods — nothing else.

Studio

Where it all happens. One place that names it, brands it, draws it, prices it and launches it — one source of truth, so nothing can disagree.

Where the name comes from

Hardware Lane runs between Bourke and Lonsdale Streets in Melbourne and took its name from the hardware merchants who supplied the city's builders. Our founder grew up with it. The mark is the lane itself: two warehouses and the slot of light between them — which is also an H.

Work

Sold on paper.

Our first case study is the founder's own development — the studio was built by doing this for ourselves first. Vesper at Snowbird Hollow: 58 acres, six estate parcels, a name, a brand, a traced site plan, fifteen renderings, two flyovers, a website, a brochure, a builder deck, signs, social and a price argument — in days. Every figure is real; every rendering is an artist's concept.

Aerial artist's concept of an estate on the Vesper land — Aerial · artist's concept

Traced interactive site plan over the aerial basemap with six numbered parcels — Interactive site plan

Dusk artist's concept, windows lit — Dusk · artist's concept

Vesper road sign artwork — Road sign 96 × 48

Outdoor room and pool looking to the hills, artist's concept — Outdoor room · artist's concept

Vesper at Snowbird Hollow · Franklin, Tennessee$11.2M list · $9.52M pre-development · sold as land

See the whole kit, in the order it was built

Services

Everything between a survey and a sold sign.

Take the whole kit or only the parts you are missing. Published prices either way — the three packages bundle the ones most projects need.

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Project naming

A name that fits the land, with the .com checked free before anyone falls in love with it.

Brand identity

Wordmark, palette, type and a standards file, so everything made after this matches.

Positioning & copywriting

The line that says what this is, and the words underneath it.

Concept lot layout

The tract cut into the lot sizes the market is actually short of.

Pricing strategy & comps

What the comps support, lot by lot, from someone who sells land for a living.

Parcel naming & schedule

Every parcel named, sized, priced and tabled for the site and the brochure.

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Exterior renderings

The building as it will stand on the real terrain, in the light that flatters it.

Interior renderings

The rooms buyers ask about first — kitchen, great room, primary suite.

Aerial renderings

The drone shot you cannot fly yet.

Drone flyover film

Fifteen seconds, one continuous move, ambient sound, cut from the approved hero.

Dusk reveal film

The windows warming as the light goes.

Street approach film

The arrival, from the road to the front door.

Stylised site plan

The survey redrawn so a buyer can read it at a glance.

Floor plan graphics

Plans redrawn in the project palette, for the site and the brochure.

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Project website

A site at the project’s own address, live before the plat records.

Interactive lot map

Tap a parcel, see the price and what is still available.

Brochure

The PDF that goes to agents and buyers.

Builder & investor deck

The same story, for the people funding it.

Site signage

Boards for the road frontage, print-ready.

Social launch kit

Tiles and captions for the first two weeks.

Enquiry capture

The form, where the leads land, and what happens to them next.

Launch playbook

Who does what, in what order, on launch day.

Domain & deployment

Registered, pointed, secured and live — we handle it.

Not sure which of these your project needs? That is what the first call is for.

See the three packages

Packages

Three packages. Published prices.

Named for the milestones a project actually passes. Every package runs the same method and ends with a launch, not a handoff of files. Anything can be bought à la carte.

Plat

$10,000

3–12 lots. The project needs a name, a look and a place to send people. About three weeks.

Discovery call and written project brief
Naming — five candidates, domains checked — and parcel names
Brand identity: mark, palette, type, standards
One-page website with interactive site plan and gated brochure
Brochure PDF: parcels, plan, price schedule
Road sign and parcel stake artwork
Six social tiles

Start with Plat

Launch · most projects

Launch

$15,000

6–40 lots. Everything to open sales with pre-development pricing. Four to five weeks.

Everything in Plat
Concept rendering set: 8–12 images in five kinds of light
"What gets built here" product brief
Builder and investor briefing deck
90-day launch playbook with dated sequence
Photography and drone day, art-directed
Twelve social tiles and a five-email sequence
Google Business Profile and social handles set up

Start with Launch

Sellout

$25,000

Raw tract or 20+ lots. Concept, price and go-to-market from the ground up. Six to eight weeks.

Everything in Launch
Conceptual lot layout and yield study
Pricing strategy and CMA-backed market evidence
Builder and buyer outreach lists with scripts
Full signage set including entry monument
CRM pipeline, lead routing and reporting
Paid media launch setup
First three months of the through-sellout retainer

Start with Sellout

Through sellout. A retainer of $1,500–3,500 a month keeps the site, the aerials and the social current as lots go under contract — every status change is a rebuild and a post.

Method

Six stages. Five sign-offs. Twenty-five working days.

Every deliverable is built from one facts file — survey figures, parcel schedule, prices, names, copy — so the site, brochure, deck and signs can never disagree. A client who signs the brief on day two launches on day twenty-five.

Discover

A 45-minute call and an eight-block questionnaire. The real deadline, who actually buys, the price you believe.

DAY 0–2 · BRIEF SIGNED

Brief & concept

Names with domains checked, a direction board of six complete routes, the price argument we intend to make.

DAY 3–7 · DIRECTION CHOSEN

Brand

Mark, lockups, palette, type and a standards sheet. Files in every format you will ever be asked for.

DAY 8–12 · BRAND APPROVED

Draw

The interactive site plan traced over the aerial, the rendering set, the photography day.

DAY 10–17 · RENDERS CUT

Build

Website, brochure, deck, signage and social — from the same source, in one build.

DAY 15–22 · PROOF APPROVED

Launch

Deployed on your domain, playbook in hand, the first post scheduled. Then the retainer, if you want it.

DAY 23–25 · LIVE

The 7-day promise

Concept board inside seven working days of your deposit — or the deposit comes back.

Half on signing, half at launch. Two revision rounds per deliverable. The work is yours on final payment; the site lives on your domain, so if you ever leave, you keep it.

Founder

Built by a developer who had to sell his own lots first.

Luke Chadwick has spent thirty years in real estate — as a broker running project sales, as a principal, and for the last several years as a land developer in Williamson County, Tennessee, buying raw tracts, cutting them into estate lots and selling them under their own names. He is also a licensed auctioneer, which is another way of saying he has watched a market set a price in real time more often than most.

Hardware Lane Studio exists because the presales kit he built for his own projects — the brand, the traced site plan, the renderings, the price argument — was the thing other developers kept asking for. Born in Melbourne; named for the laneway where the city's builders bought their tools.

ProjectsCobbler Ridge · Thompsons Station West · The Highlands at Carters Creek · Vesper at Snowbird Hollow

RolesLand developer · Broker affiliate · Licensed auctioneer

CommunityWilliamson County Association of Realtors — Advocacy Committee vice-chair

AlsoAuthor, The Williamson County 2040 Report

Start a project

Tell us about the land.

Eight questions to begin. We come back within two working days with a written brief, a package recommendation and a dated schedule. No obligation until the brief is signed.

hardwarelanestudio.com · Franklin, Tennessee