What do you do when a cottage on a large site pops up for sale in your neighbourhood? You snap it up before the developers can! This is precisely what these clever owners did.

Tammy and Ewan lived just one block away, but their home wasn’t delighting them as it once did. It was cold, the garden was small, and their neighbours felt on top of them.

Typical of homes from the era, the cottage they bought was a rabbit warren of rooms with poor flow, odd divisions and additions. But the site was large, and it was next to a leafy park and had majestic mountain views.

The design process to this home just flowed. We were all exactly on the same page with what we wanted to achieve in terms of space and look. We extended the existing single garage to create a double garage. We made the huge pool smaller in favour of an enclosed patio. The rest of the downstairs was cleverly reconfigured within the original footprint. It went from a two bedroom, two bathroom home with study and separate living spaces with zero connection to the garden to a warm home focused on the back garden and embracing open plan family living.