David and Ali's House

2025

Thoughtful and Functional Design

The process began by understanding David, Ali, and their two children' s specific needs, ensuring the new home would work efficiently for their lifestyle. Key priorities included storage, spaces for activities like food prep, gardening, hunting, and fishing, areas for the kids to have some independence as well as areas for socialising and family gatherings.

Design decisions were guided by practical considerations: balancing the budget between the utility areas and the main living spaces, giving the soon-to-be teenagers rooms with a sense of individuality, and working with existing trees on the site, which pose limitations by their prominent location on the site, but also create interesting spaces and opportunities to capture the best views through and beyond them.

The result is a light-filled, flexible home with thoughtful details. The family now have an elevated mezzanine net for the teens to hang out, a bay window nook connecting indoors and outdoors, and a unique utilitarian shed and storage area maximising the site. The house achieves a balance of function and thoughtful design, and ongoing engagement with the family helps us understand how it serves them day to day.