26/05/2026
This year, I’m celebrating 10 years in business and 20 years since graduating in Design from RMIT.
As a twenty-something design student, I vividly remember being immensely inspired when a teacher showed us Blur Building by Diller + Scofidio - an architecture made not from walls, but atmosphere.
Even then, something about it stayed with me.
The idea that architecture could be felt more than seen.
The more I design, the more I realise spaces are never just visual.
They shape the way we breathe.
The way we gather.
The way we rest.
The way we regulate.
Over the years, I’ve become increasingly interested in how our homes influence the nervous system, often without us even realising it.
How light moves through a space.
How it sounds.
How it feels to be within it.
And perhaps even who we share it with, and the influence of their own inner worlds within our spaces.
Perhaps this is why some spaces leave us feeling deeply settled… while others quietly leave us feeling overstimulated, unsettled or anxious.
Good design goes far beyond aesthetics.
It becomes something we feel. Our Lakes House project (originally designed by my father) was reimagined by us 33 years later with a deep awareness of this - honouring natural light, honest materials, connection to landscape, and spaces that support both family connection and quiet retreat.
Perhaps it’s only in looking back that we begin to recognise the threads that have been guiding us all along.
