Get it Right with Undercover Architect
The podcast all about creating your ideal home.

Stairs and garages. Did you know that starting with them can often be the key to getting it right in your home design overall? And whilst it may seem odd to put these two items together, there’s a few things that stairs and garages have in common. Firstly of course,...

Listen to this episode to learn how to get it right in your study nooks, studies and home offices. Creating a study nook, study or home office, where this work can occur in a semi-uninterrupted way, can help with family sanity overall. I know personally I’ve run businesses from our...

How to get it right in kids bedrooms, guest bedrooms and other bedrooms spaces. Known as ‘secondary bedrooms’, there’s lots to know to get it right. This episode is all about secondary bedrooms. “Secondary bedrooms” is the terminology I use to refer to any bedrooms that aren’t the main bedroom....

In this episode, I talk about wardrobes, linens, laundries and mudrooms. I also cover walk-in robes and other storage such as broom cupboards. These spaces can be important to get right for a home to work well, so let’s learn more. Firstly, I talk about the four Fs upfront, and...

This episode is about the wet areas in our home, namely bathrooms, ensuites and powder rooms. These are cost intensive areas in our home. They, as well as our kitchens, will have the highest cost rate in $ / m2 compared with the rest of the home (when looking at...

The main bedroom of the house … Bedroom Number 1. This can be simply a bedroom, or it can be arranged in combination with extra or attached spaces such as a walk-in-robe, ensuite and even a parents’ retreat. Other names for it are the master bedroom, or master suite. Ensuites...

There’s a huge amount to consider when it comes to designing your kitchen. And more than any other area of your home, you can feel a lot of pressure that you’ll stuff it up. This episode is about kitchens … all things kitchens, which means I’ll also talk about butler’s...

This episode is about the second living space or room in our homes. It goes by lots of different names, and most homeowners planning a renovation or new home want to create one. So, let’s learn more about how to get it right. This episode may also be a little...

The question we’re asking today is: How do we make great living and dining rooms in our new or renovated home?  We spend a huge amount of our time in our homes in our main living and dining rooms. In fact, these spaces, along with our kitchen, get prime use...

Are you interested in Slow Home design? And bringing your own personal ‘why’ to how your home is designed, and how it helps you live? This conversation may be for you … Brooke McAlary of Slow Your Home and Jackrabbit.fm and I talked on her podcast about how to bring...

What are the fundamentals when it comes to designing your home? The ones you must get right? Let’s get down to the fundamentals. This episode introduces the “four F”s I like to consider when designing any room in your home. And in designing your home overall. What are these four...

Want to know how to design a family home that works now, and always? Season 2 of the podcast is for you. “What makes you think you’re qualified to design your own home?!” Many of my industry colleagues will think this when a homeowner designs their own home. I can...