40 square meters Happiness: How a garage became a charming apartment in Melbourne.

40 square meters Happiness: How a garage became a charming apartment in Melbourne.

40 square meters, little budget and yet: two sleeping spaces, a freestanding bathtub, a small kitchen unit, a terrace. In Melbourne, Hearth Studio has transformed a rundown double garage into a charming apartment. With custom built-ins, vintage found objects and an eye for the essentials.

Alex Kennedy lives on her parents' property. However, not in the actual home, but in the former garage. This may sound a bit sad at first - but this mini-house has undeniable qualities. Also because you have direct access to the tree-lined garden from the light-filled first floor apartment. But above all, because the interior is charming and practical.

Tricky task
The conversion project is located in Carlton North, about four kilometers north of downtown Melbourne. The district, which has beautiful historic buildings, is undergoing a transformation and is becoming increasingly gentrified, causing land and property prices to rise. So how good to be able to live on your parents' property and have a friend who is an interior designer to boot. Sarah Trotter, founder of Hearth Studio, took on the tricky task of fitting everything needed for daily living into such a small footprint without making the result look too utilitarian. Another challenge: the client's rather limited budget.

Clever zoning
Sarah Trotter succeeds in accommodating all living areas in the small space: Living, cooking, sleeping, bathing. But first the roof of the dilapidated garage had to be replaced and electricity and water pipes installed. The floor plan of the apartment is largely open plan and unified by the screed floor. And yet Trotter has created individual zones defined by custom (closet) fixtures, room-within-a-room elements, or even just rugs. Despite its practicality, the interior is cozy, thanks largely to exposed brick walls and beams, old windows and doors carried over from the previous building, and unpretentious furniture: an extendable wooden dining table and chairs, a freestanding black bathtub, an old workbench that serves as a kitchen unit.

Kitchen with a view
Wood brings warmth to the interior, which is why walls and whitewashed ceilings, as well as the built-in elements are made of this material: the sink base with trays in the bathroom, the platform for the double bed, the base with drawers for a sofa that can be transformed into an extra bed. And, of course, the kitchenette, which is located just next to the large door to the terrace. Its layout is simple: under a wooden countertop with an inset white porcelain sink are base cabinets and the refrigerator. Above a tile backsplash of light gray mosaic tiles are shelves and a single wall unit, which is why the kitchen installation looks light and airy. A nice detail are the homemade leather handles of the kitchen fronts, which complement the wood haptically wonderfully.

Enter!
Wood, screed, dawdled furniture and light fixtures, (patchwork) rugs, rubber trees, recycled materials. Alex Kennedy's home is small and yet: this is where you enter and want to stay! Perhaps because the apartment is so unpretentiously designed, in the room layout well thought out, with attention to detail, with reminiscences of the past, with many hands work. Therefore, it really seems as if the old garage has always been there for living!

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