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About
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We design beautiful & connected homes & living environments for all – upsizing, downsizing, rightsizing & humanising. We design for people at all stages of life, at all ages & all capacities.
Our crafted designs focus on connection - with people, community & landscape, & with the rituals of everyday life.
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Our expertise is a unique blend resulting from almost 30 years crafting bespoke homes & living environments with designing also for aging in place, seniors living & care, accessibility, & for inclusive communities.
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I've been designing homes & living environments since my early 20s. Back then, many of our clients were also in their 20s. Now, they range from young adults & upwards through several generations.
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We love this broadening of the generations for whom we design. We design homes that are enduring - where leaving is a decision, not a necessity.
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My most valuable learning over the decades has been that the design of beautiful living environments is universal. It spans all ages & capacities, has a social structure, connects with site, landscape, street & community, is climatically appropriate, employs materials & detailing of a relevant scale and nature, & it elevates the everyday rituals of life.
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It isn't 'home' for some & 'home-like' for others. If someone lives there, it is home - it is their home.
.....Ann-Maree Ruffles
Contact
Ann-Maree Ruffles
+61 417 603 611