Every project, regardless of scale or budget, has one thing in common.
You have to stand in it.
A photo won't tell you. Neither will a render, a plan, a model or a budget.
Space is felt.
And long before a house is felt, it is decided.
The projects below are stories about those decisions: what seemed sensible at the time, what was hiding beneath the surface, and why the choices made early still matter when you're standing in the finished home.
What the slope cost before anyone dug.
Understanding consequences
A steep block, competing ambitions and a limited budget. The most important decisions were the ones that avoided expensive mistakes later.
The best room in the house, given away.
Committing to what matters
Most people would have given the view to the living room. Tommy gave it to the bedroom and built the project around that decision.
When more space makes things smaller.
Protecting what matters
A growing family needed more room, but not at the expense of the backyard that made them buy the house in the first place.
Every sensible decision...
Choosing restraint
A large site invited a large extension. Resisting the temptation to keep adding became the decision that made the house work.
The house he couldn't have finished.
Making ambition buildable
Inspired by Huf Haus, the challenge was capturing what made it special without creating something impossible to build.
A narrow block that feels generous.
Working with constraints
A nine-metre-wide site and a tight budget forced every decision to work harder. The constraints became the design.
Building only what mattered.
Doing enough
Not every problem needs a major renovation. This project succeeded because only the things that mattered were changed.
The pool wasn't the project.
Knowing where not to intervene
The problem wasn't the pool. It was everything that stopped the family using it. Solving those small issues changed how the whole property worked.
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