Home Design + Renovation Tips - Zephyr + Stone

Every family home design starts with the same questions: how many bedrooms, how many bathrooms, what's on the wishlist. But that's a checklist, not a design. Almost nobody asks which season of life the home is actually for.

After twenty years of designing homes, this is the question I keep coming back to. Because the home you need changes with every lif...

I've spent twenty years designing homes, and the ones that work best are rarely the biggest. That's because size isn't what makes a home work, design is. A small house designed well feels better than a large one designed badly, costs less to build and run, and lives far bigger than its size in square metres. Here are the seven small house design ideas I come ...

Your home layout is decided in one moment. Not when you build, not when you move in. When you sign your floor plan.

I've spent twenty years designing homes, and I can tell you where almost every regret begins. Not with the tiles, not with the builder: with the floor plan nobody questioned.

Whether you're building new, renovating or extending, the ...

Designing a bathroom? It will likely end up one of three ways…

The well-designed bathroom: you’ve optimised the floor plan, ventilation, bathroom storage and lighting, and carefully curated tiles, bathroom fixtures and colours. Your bathroom has day spa vibes, and your bathroom colour scheme is pretty close to perfectio...