Allambie Heights
A family home, reimagined through storage that grows up with it.
This project began with a simple brief from a young, growing family: more storage, and smarter storage. The result is a home threaded through with joinery that solves problems most homes never fix — each piece designed to work harder than it looks like it's working.
In the children's rooms, two custom wardrobes were built with adaptable internals — configured to reconfigure as the kids grow, so the robes that hold toddler clothes today will hold a teenager's wardrobe in a decade, without a single renovation in between.
The dining room centres on an expansive wall unit that quietly does double duty as a work-from-home desk — storage and workspace resolved as one considered piece, rather than a desk squeezed in as an afterthought.
The cleverest move is at the entry, where a single double-sided wall does two jobs at once: on one side, a concealed walk-in cupboard for coats and bags that keeps the entry clear; on the other, a wall-hung TV unit for the living room, with soft, curved edges designed with small children in mind. Tucked beside it, a floor-to-ceiling linen cupboard — storage the home was missing entirely — now hides in plain sight.
A project about making a family home work exactly as hard as the family living in it.
