When it comes to design, Deb Brown loves corners. “They drive sociability,” she says. “If you’re at a pub, people always gravitate to where two bench seats meet because that’s where the talking takes place.”
She applied this theory on a larger scale to the revamped layout of her family’s 1930s bungalow in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. She knew that if she based its design on an ‘L’ shape, the angle would create a courtyard and social connection that a home
