Jane and Richard faced a wall of constraints: a home on Sydney’s Upper North Shore they didn’t want to leave, a small sloping block that ruled out most backyard buildings, and Richard’s late international calls taking over the bedroom while the household tried to sleep. One Melwood Mod, on a forgotten corner of the garden, solved every one of these… and more.
Tag: Parent retreat
Better out than up for this heritage home
His two daughters needed their own rooms, but Steve’s study was taking up the third bedroom. This heritage home on Sydney’s Northern Beaches had run out of space. Rather than the cost and red tape of building up, he looked out, adding a detached Melwood home office in the garden and giving the house its third bedroom back.
Every nook needs a cranny
With five people in a small Wollongong cottage, Jenny’s family needed flexible extra space, not another fixed room. Their Melwood Porch, The Cranny, is a study, craft centre, music lounge, guest room and teen hangout space in one, thriftly furnished start to finish on a Facebook Marketplace budget.