'Get it Right with Undercover Architect' Podcast
Season 01: What matters most
Great design isn't anymore expensive than terrible design. It's all about where you start, and what you prioritise.
The episodes in Season 1 of the podcast will help you learn what matters most, so you can make your home work and feel great.
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[#006] The most important thing to know when designing your home
Season 01 | Episode 01
Worried about all the choices you need to make when renovating or building a new home?
What if you could know the most important thing to prioritise when designing your new home or renovation? The first choice to make in your design that will make every subsequent choice simpler and streamline your design overall?
In this episode, learn the most essential choices that matter when designing your home.
[#007] Making your home great: All things NORTH
Season 01 | Episode 02
We continue to explore what matters most, and what decisions to prioritise when designing your new or renovated home.
In this episode, we’ll talk about all things NORTH.
This episode will help you get it right if you’re seeking ways to make your home feel great, and also if you have a north-facing home.
So what do you need to be aware of with northern sunlight?
[#008] Making your home great: All things EAST
Season 01 | Episode 03
In this episode, we continue on our adventure of uncovering what matters most, and what decisions to prioritise when designing your new or renovated home.
In this episode, we’ll talk about all things EAST.
This episode will help you get it right if you’re seeking ways to make your home feel great, and also if you have an east-facing home.
So what do you need to be aware of with eastern sunlight?
[#009] Making your home great: All things SOUTH
Season 01 | Episode 04
So far this season, we’ve been exploring the idea of orientation. And the importance of knowing yours when designing, renovating or building your home. We’ve talked about northern and eastern orientations and sunlight.
This episode will help you get it right if you’re seeking ways to make your home feel great, and also if you have a south-facing home … or a home that faces south-east or south-west.
So what do you need to be aware of with southern sunlight? (And is there such a thing, given that in the Southern Hemisphere, our sun moves through the north?)
[#010] Making your home great: All things WEST
Season 01 | Episode 05
This episode is the last of our four orientations. Over the last 3 episodes, we’ve talked about north, east, and south sunlight and orientations.
In this episode, we’ll talk about all things WEST.
This will help you get it right if you’re seeking ways to make your home feel great, and also if you have a west-facing home.
So what do you need to be aware of with western sunlight?
[#011] Online resources to help with important design choices
Season 01 | Episode 06
This episode will give you some free and low cost online resources to help with designing your home for your climate, and the movement of the sun. As well as some others to get you started on your project.
Only a couple of these resources are Australia only, and most can be used globally.
[#012] The assets that add design value for free
Season 01 | Episode 07
In this episode, I share some of the other assets you have available that can add great design value to your home. At no cost to you. It’s simply about knowing what they are, and choosing them first in your design.
So much of designing for new homes or renovation is about unlocking what is possible. About understanding the potential for your home and land, and enhancing it. About realising the potential of the natural assets and enhancing what’s already freely available. Bringing these natural assets to the fore so they can make your home and your land really enjoyable.
[#013] Creating Spaciousness: Using Volume
Season 01 | Episode 08
This season has been all about what matters most in designing your new home or renovation.
Many homeowners dream of a home that feels spacious. And they fall into the trap of believing that this means their home has to be bigger.
And it’s understandable. Especially when we’re renovating or building family homes. Often the need to renovate or build will be brought about because we feel we need more space. This might be because of the addition of new family members. Or it will be because our existing family members are growing and becoming more active.
[#014] Creating Spaciousness: Using Light
Season 01 | Episode 09
In this episode, I’ll share how light can be used to create a spacious home. Light is the second tool we have in our toolkit to create spaciousness in our homes.
When talking about light, we need to think about both natural and electric night. After all, you want your home to feel spacious during the day, and after dark, don’t you!
Many homeowners, when describing how they want their homes to be, use the words ‘airy’ and ‘light’ or ‘light-filled’.
[#015] Creating Spaciousness: Great Storage
Season 01 | Episode 10
In this episode, I share how great storage create spaciousness. This is the third tool we have in our toolkit to create spaciousness in our homes.
Storage can be fundamental in creating a physical sense of spaciousness. However, it is also key in creating mental spaciousness. That sense of calm that comes from feeling organised because there’s a place for everything, and everything is in its place.
The aim is to design our homes to support us, and our lifestyles, all the time. Especially at those hectic moments of the day that test the calm in any family home.
[#016] Creating Spaciousness: Indoor Outdoor Connections
Season 01 | Episode 11
Want to know 4 powerful ways to use indoor / outdoor connections to create a spacious home? Make your home feel bigger with these tips and resources.
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.
With over 30 years industry experience, Amelia Lee founded Undercover Architect in 2014 as an award-winning online resource to help and teach you how to get it right when designing, building or renovating your home. You are the key to unlocking what’s possible for your home. Undercover Architect is your secret ally