Creating Spaciousness: Indoor Outdoor Connections - Episode 11 (Season 1)

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Feb 20, 2017

They explore how indoor-outdoor connections make homes feel larger and more light-filled. Topics include four approaches: borrowing space with folding edges, borrowing light with skylights and windows, creating sight lines for views and safety, and cutting sight lines for privacy. The conversation focuses on practical design choices that expand feeling and function without unnecessary cost.

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Design Connections Intentionally

Use indoor-outdoor connections deliberately to make interiors feel larger by extending experiences into gardens and streets.
Avoid randomly cutting holes in walls and plan how openings will perform before you build.

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Make One Space Do Double Duty

Borrow outdoor space by dissolving edges with large openings so one dining area can function as both indoor and outdoor.
Spend money on one well-designed hybrid space instead of separate indoor and outdoor rooms.

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Fold Walls Away With Sliding Doors

Use full-height sliding doors with an external glass balustrade to fold away walls and instantly extend interiors.
Consider this approach when you can't fit a deck or balcony but want an exterior feel.

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This is Episode 11 of Season 1.

In this last episode of Season 1, Amelia uncovers the 4th tool we have available to create spaciousness in our homes: Indoor / Outdoor Connections.

This first season of the “Get it Right” podcast has been taking you through what matters most.

These are the first and most fundamental choices and information you need to get it right in your new home or renovation. When you put these decisions first, then it simplifies the rest of the journey. It also helps you create a home that will feel great – and that you’ll feel great in.

As a client of Amelia’s once said “The wall costs the same, whether you put it in the right place, or the wrong place!” The same can be said for design generally. Great design isn’t any more expensive. It’s about having the knowledge to make the right choices, and making those choices first so you get to a great home at the end of your journey.

So how do you use indoor / outdoor connections to create spaciousness?

Many homeowners want to open up their home to bring the outside in. There’s the practical need to connect to their gardens, supervise their kids whilst they play, and make the most of our great climate here in Australia.

There’s also the desire to make our home feel larger, more light-filled and calm as well.

However, you don’t need a big block to make great indoor / outdoor connections. And cutting lots of holes in the walls of your home isn’t always the best approach either (that’s actually a sure-fire way to cause lots of additional costs in engineering and structure!)

There are 4 key ways to think about indoor / outdoor connections. When you approach your home design with these in mind, you can make sure you get results that work.

Head to the podcast to learn what these 4 ways are >>> www.undercoverarchitect.com/indoor-outdoor

Amelia will take you through them, and help you understand how to create spaciousness, whilst maintaining security and privacy in your homes as well. She'll also share some images of projects – they may give you some ideas for your place that you hadn't thought of!

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