PARTY OF FIVE

Gus Balbontin, his partner Storrm and their three children are used to sharing space. Up until a few years ago, the kids cohabited a single bedroom in the family’s weatherboard cottage in suburban Melbourne. After lights out, Gus and Storrm would often host large dinner parties.

“The house is right in front of the kids’ school, so it gets circulated by lots of different visitors, all the time,” says Gus. “There are kids and parents in the morning, kids and parents in the afternoon.” The busy dad, who used to be an executive at Lonely Planet before becoming an investor and speaker, plays in a band, too. Rehearsals would