There’s an art to small space living. Balancing the functionality of family life with creativity and colour is a skill many of us attempt to master in our everyday. Moving her family of four into a self-contained studio in the garden of her latest renovation project, Interior Designer knows a thing or two about tiny house design.
Renovating a house just as the pandemic hit back in 2020, we decided to set her interior sights on a much smaller scale. “It became clear through the process that we would be unable to live in the house whilst the work was being done. We knew that a garden studio was an investment but one that would pay off in the long run as the tiny house would stay forever, adding value to the house, housing friends and family when they stay and ultimately becoming my home office! It was a big ask, to make 450sqft work for a family of four but I was up for the challenge!”
Designed with a kitchen, bathroom, home office and two bedrooms, imagination was key to transforming this small garden space. “One of the best optical illusions we invested in was to take the internal ceiling height to 3 metres. This was over the ‘permitted planning’ rules, meaning we had to put in for full planning for our garden studio. This took 8 weeks but is 100% worth it. It makes any small space feel SO much bigger and allowed us to build heaps of storage using all the vertical space to our advantage,”
