“the whole experience has allowed us to grow and develop, and to learn and appreciate what good design is all about. I don’t know that we really understood that at the start. But now we have a much better understanding of the quality of the work we’ve been a part of, and of the talent that we’ve had the opportunity to benefit from, and that’s a really special thing for us.” “Everyone who visits says ‘wow, this is lovely!‘”

“They took a lot of hard work out of the design [for us]. People said ‘you must be at the stage where you’re choosing colours and taps and this and that’, and I was able to say ‘no actually, the architects have done all that.'” “I just love being here,”

— Don & Christine

“Cheng asked us a lot of questions about how we lived our lives…and how we wanted to live our lives,” says Cleo. Michael adds, “One of the things I found initially was that the vision Cheng gave us for how much of a difference we could make to our lifestyle was challenging for me. But once I understood what was behind it, it all started to come together and we developed a trust about the details.”

— Michael & Cleo

“Hi Cheng and John,

Just a quick note to say how rapt we are with our “new” old home. You were good at understanding what we wanted—we’re not sure we really knew ourselves (!), other than the fact that we had outgrown our last seriously dated renovation.

Luckily we didn’t go with our first brief to you or we would have ended up with yet another oversized two story house in Camberwell.

Instead, what we have now is a beautiful, light-filled period home which has retained a lot of its quaint elegance, but with lots of modern twists. We love it. We get a lot of compliments on the house—people seem really impressed with the transformation. The black and glass powder room is my favourite.

Thanks for pushing our boundaries: it has exactly the right mix of whimsy and elegance we desired.

Please pass on our compliments to the office crew too. They were so helpful, knowledgeable and pleasant to deal with.

Finally, I hope we stay in touch. We will need you for our next house…(just kidding Terry!) Terry is so pleased because at last I have my dream home and he won’t have to move again!

Cheers”

— Christine & Terry