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Easy Breezy

Size is a relative concept. While 80-square-metres sounds small for a family of four, to Maz and Suni Hermon it is positively palatial. The couple and their two young boys lived in less than half that footprint for nearly five years. And survived.

Their friends and neighbours, Tim Gittos and Caroline Robertson of Spacecraft Architects, made that experience work by installing a mezzanine floor as a sleeping loft in the tiny sleep-out they called home. So when the Hermons had saved enough money to build, they naturally turned to them again.

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