"Looking back, It’s hard to believe we lived any differently. Jill's design has transformed the way Hugh works and has influenced the way we live as a family.
Daily, we delight in the many subtleties of our new home environment . It is everything we could have hoped for. It’s an inspirational creative space as well as a warm inviting sanctuary for our home life.
Jill has our confidence, gratitude and comes with our highest recommendation."
Hugh & Liz
Mornington Peninsula
"When I visited the site I was very impressed by Jill's extraordinary vision and her enthusiasm to create a home on a beautiful, yet very difficult site."
"Building our home was a very personal journey for us and so it was important that we found an architect that we could connect with both intellectually and emotionally, and who had the experience of building in a challenging location.
Our brief focussed around the river, the adjoining bush and the abundant views, and was encapsulated by the term “Glorified Tin Shack” – beauty without ostentation.
We had fallen in love with Berowra Waters and 'the river' the first time we saw it. It was just what we were looking for – a quiet place, a sanctuary. We wanted our home to sit quietly within it and not interrupt it's beauty. Jill understood. The end result was everything we could have hoped for, so we named it ' Nunga Mai' – a Guring-gai aboriginal expression for ‘Gift’.
The design process was easy, collaborative and a joy really.
Throughout, Jill kept us informed and was open to hearing and working with our ideas. We would discuss our thoughts, she would offer alternatives, then go away and return with "our idea" transformed. Jill was not prescriptive about anything unless building controls required it. Her expertise helped guide us through the whole design process, through a successful and seamless Development Application, and through a comprehensive construction design stage.
The only mistake we made was not using Jill to manage the build project itself, which would have saved us a lot of time later on."
Ron & Annie
Berowra House - 'Nunga Mai'
The skill of being able to design a home for someone else is truly rare. So many architects design homes in their own style, and then customers buy that style.
Finding an architect who will listen to your needs and then create a home that is in sync with your needs is a genuinely enjoyable endeavour.
For us, Jill was that architect.
She had a clear process, an equally clear fee structure and an enthusiasm for our project.
Jill gave us what we needed in a home, which was not clear to us at the start. The journey of discovery with her opened our eyes to what was possible and produced a home that we delight in every day.
Wayne and Sandra Lazarides
Pittwater
