Thinking outside the box was needed to turn a plumber’s toolshed into a pocket-sized showpiece.
As far as renovation projects go, turning an aged garage into a luxury home is as challenging as they come.
The block had been subdivided from the adjoining block at its rear and sold to a plumber for $8000 in the 1980s. The plumber used the garage to store his tools. “The prefab people are in Colac and what they do is they drive it overnight, they park close by here and in the morning they arrived and assembled it in a day-and-a-half,” Smith said.The block was so small the builders couldn’t put up scaffolding — so an inventive solution was needed.
But it couldn’t come at the expense of a light-filled home. It was important to Smith that the main bedroom, at the rear of the house, had a small courtyard and skylight. A large, automatic glass hatch over the top of the stairwell doubles as a skylight, and lets sunlight filter into the upstairs living areas.
Smith lived in the house for a year with her husband, and said entertaining on the terrace was a dream, particularly on New Year’s Eve.
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