A Dated Cottage in a Brisbane Suburb Gets a New Look and a Spacious Addition

Most people would have torn it down. But David and Hannah Hodson had become attached to their 1950s home in the Hendra suburb of Brisbane after living in it for a year—even though the weather-board house was dark, architecturally uninspired, and awkwardly close to a side property line. When they decided to create a larger home for themselves and their two children, they chose to renovate instead and charged Australian design firm Wrightson Stewart with overhauling and expanding the structure to bring in more light and air and generally give some new life to a tired old house.