Along with the typical requests for renovating and extending this bungalow in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland's Western Springs, Sam Atcheson of Dorrington Atcheson Architects (DAA) received some more unusual ones. Budding young gymnast Bea wanted carpet rather than timber floorboards in her bedroom (all the better to do handstands on) and her elder sister Florence was adamant that the original large entry lobby stay that way. Why? For dancing in the hallway, of course.
Those two wishes were easily granted, but their idea for a two-storey house (it's not unusual for children to equate height with value) didn't fit with the wider
