A VISION SPLENDID
When we launched our $25,000 design competition, My Ideal House, in January, I dared to dream that we would engage H&G readers, design professionals and the housing industry in a discussion about what we should be striving to achieve in Australian homes of the future. What I hadn’t anticipated is how overwhelmed I would be at this moment, fresh from judging the utterly beautiful, uplifting and thought-provoking schemes presented by our six finalists. Your responses to our online survey, regarding what you expected to see in your ideal home, helped set the criteria for the competition, entered by 81 aspirants. At judging time, the shortlisted finalists outlined their splendid new visions for a suburban lot. With each presentation, our judging panel was taken on a journey through a house for tomorrow. The…