Elegant Simplicity
Elegant Simplicity
One of the biggest drawcards about living in Sydney’s northern suburbs is the natural beauty and living close to the bush. Unfortunately, with the wonderful lifestyle close to the bush comes the danger of living on bushfire prone land.
Managing bushfire risk is both a planning and emergency management challenge. Importantly there are specific construction standards that apply when you want to build a new home or renovate on Bushfire Prone Land.
If you’ve been thinking about renovating your home for a while now, but somehow find yourself delaying – I may just have the answers for you.
Having been involved in hundreds of extensive home transformations over the years, here are my top reasons to renovate your home.
One of them is particularly often overlooked.
When building a house or adding an extension to your existing home, you may excitedly think about all sorts of things — the theme, the fixtures you want or simply the extra living quality. But it is very rare that people think about the shadows in home design. Shadows that their new home or home extension may create.
For me (and you), shadows in home design play a critical role in every building and renovation project. Let me explain why and give you a few tips to keep your neighbours as friends.
If you are thinking of renovating your bathroom or your kitchen in your new home… please stop.
Before you start picking out the tub and tiles and tearing down the cabinets, take some time and think long and hard about what you are about to do.
Don’t get caught up in the rush of renovating that you end up making short-term decisions and miss out on better options for your family.
They make it look so simple, but renovating to add value to your home is more complicated than DIY home renovation shows would have you believe. There is also a great deal more design, planning and money involved — so you want to make sure that you are investing your money into renovations that will eventually see returns.
The question is, how do you know you are investing in the right improvements?
Your home is a very important place – much more than just the place where you eat and sleep.
Homes should do more than just reflect your design aesthetic, or likes and dislikes. It should address your personal and practical needs. It must be functional as it is beautiful–and that’s easier said than done.
In my experience there are three common fundamental design problems in Sydney homes today. Let me share them with you and elaborate on how I tend to go about fixing each.
A house is different from a home. A home is what you make of it — how you transform structures so that it becomes your own.
To get you inspired, here are some of the most prolific quotes about living in a beautiful home.
If your home is in a bushfire prone area, then you should already know to give special consideration to fire safety. Bushfires must be taken seriously as they can take away everything that belongs to you in one fell swoop.
Just recently, a bushfire that blazed in New South Wales, wreaked havoc across the small community of Uarbry. According to The Guardian, 12 out of its 19 homes were destroyed by the fire and it even claimed the historic Tongy Station which was worth around $20 million.
With that in mind, here are a set of strategies before, during and after bushfire.
