Houzz Tour: A Home Designed to Make Work a Pleasure
If you’re going to work from home, you want it to be a home in which you like working, and that’s exactly what these homeowners set out to create when they embarked on building their house in far northeastern New South Wales, Australia. With help from architects Sarah Aldridge and Jason Trisley of Space Studio, the couple created a home that would meet their needs for work, rest and play.
“Both clients carry out consultancy work from home, so a good home office space was an essential part of the brief,” Aldridge says. Their children live a distance away, and tend to visit infrequently but for longer periods, so it was important to the clients that they had a separate space for them. The guest bedroom has plenty of storage and its own en suite bathroom, and a refurbished onsite guest cottage is well used. The home office doubles as an additional guest space.
The owners are excellent cooks and gardeners and enjoy entertaining, so in addition to a kitchen and a butler’s kitchen, the architects designed a generous covered area next to the back door with gardening tool storage and a sink for washing vegetables picked from the garden.
Houzz at a Glance
Location: Possum Creek, south of Brisbane, Australia
Architects: Sarah Aldridge and Jason Trisley of Space Studio
Size: 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, plus a large home office
That’s interesting: The property used to be an organic macadamia nut orchard with a Samoan temple and a contemplation pavilion. Both were noncompliant with building regulations and were removed.
The carport is located away from the house to provide a sense of arrival. A covered walkway links the carport to the house via a stepped ramp alongside a brilliant fuchsia wall.
The existing buildings on the site were in poor condition and noncompliant, so it was a fairly easy decision to remove them and start with a clean slate, Aldridge says. In addition to the fuchsia wall alongside the pathway, splashes of lime green and sunny yellow on the exterior give this home a sense of fun.
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