Honing a home’s space, by digging a little bit deeper. An unfunctional and higgeldy-piggeldy home – where looking beyond the brief led to more than the owners were expecting. A new move, a fresh start, a perfect location and a characterful house. With a building that had been added to throughout the years, this was a space that had left behind its functionality a long time ago. Luckily this was one family who knew what they wanted – a home they could love as much as the area they’d just moved to. With multiple extensions to the property over the years, parts of the building had lost their purpose, feeling at odds with the way the family wanted to use it. Opening up the existing utility and kitchen space, the client’s wanted to create a multi-purpose kitchen and living area, get more use out of their music room, and extend their home to include a ground-floor office space that would allow them to work from home. Working closely with the couple to establish what they were really looking for in their ideal home, it became clear that there were other areas beyond their brief that could be improved without detracting from the building’s character. With careful consideration, we combined these major and extremely effective additional elements into our proposed designs to show the house’s potential.