The Garden Room

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Renovate the home from street to garden.

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Home type: Single-level garden-room renovation study
Floors: 1 level
Palette: Scandinavian
Design context: Melbourne, Australia

The brief and its limits

An imagined family wants a connected kitchen and garden room, with the rest of the home brought into the same renovation. Compare a one-metre rear extension with a deeper three-metre scheme: both refit the interior and street facade, but leave different amounts of garden. Develop your own whole-home brief with AI, inspect and refine it in 3D, or involve an architect if you choose.

Constraint: Work from the original home and site. More rear living space uses more garden; retained front-room positions still receive new fittings and finishes.

Scope: Whole-home renovation, facade and rear extension

Three decisions to review

Renovate beyond the rear room
The kitchen, bedroom, study, bathroom and laundry receive coordinated fittings, storage and lighting. Warm-white walls, oak floors and a sage accent connect these rooms with the renewed street facade.
Connect cooking and the garden
Option A opens the kitchen to living and moves the rear room, roof edge and garden opening outward by one metre from the original. The pergola and outdoor dining remain part of the whole-home plan.
More family space, less garden
Option B reaches three metres beyond the original rear wall, allowing a larger indoor family, dining and reading arrangement. Compare its footprint and relocated outdoor setting with Option A before choosing how much garden to retain.

Whole-home renovation, facade and rear extension

Option A extends the original rear room by one metre and opens the kitchen to living, with a complete kitchen, refitted bedroom, study, bathroom and laundry. Outside, a face-brick street front and a full-width timber verandah carry it to the street. Option B extends three metres for a larger family living and dining room, leaving less garden, and rebuilds the rear facade in the same brick.

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