“IT’S EVEN BETTER THAN WE IMAGINED!”

For the first time in his adult life, Oliver Driver doesn’t have to duck his head to walk through doorways.

Almost exactly six months since the foundations for their brand new house went down, Oliver and his family have moved in, and already they’re noticing the benefits of living in an architecturally designed home tailored for their needs.

“It’s the little things that make a difference,” says Oliver, who is 198cm tall. “Because I’m stupidly tall, the doors are all 2.4m high rather than 2m, and the ceiling is 2.7m, which is a bit higher than usual. It’s things like that that you can do in a new-build that you’re never going to do in a renovation. We’ve also got slightly higher counter tops in the