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• I wanted a tiny house – and a big life. Could I have it all in 25 square metres?

  03-08-2024 22:00
  
  At 50, home ownership was out of reach for Louise Southerden. When she decided to build a tiny house on tyres, it promised liberation from Australia’s rental hamster wheelGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhat does it mean to come home? To have a place of your own that feels safe in all the important ways? That wraps its arms around you when you arrive at the doorstep drenched in the problems of the world?For decades, whenever I thought of home, I didn’t picture the houses I
  
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• A renovated Queenslander with a home office in a former laundry wins Houses awards top prize

  03-08-2024 02:00
  A revamped Brisbane worker’s cottage measuring less than 200 sq metres has been capped the best new home in the countryGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA renovation of a 1910 Brisbane worker’s cottage, which focuses on compact space, has won the Australian house of the year in the 2024 Houses awards.Red Hill House and Studio is the home and office of architect Nicholas Skepper, designer Zuzana Kovar and their two young children. The renovation
  
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