Epping on Open Homes Australia: A Home Designed to Perform
July 3, 2026
This Saturday, our Epping residence will feature on Open Homes Australia — a home that has evolved carefully over time, room by room and chapter by chapter.
Darren joins the Open Homes Australia team to walk through the project and unpack the thinking behind it: not simply how the home looks, but why it works.
For Studio Minosa, great design is never just about a beautiful finish. It is about the way a home supports everyday life, adapts to the people living in it and creates spaces that continue to feel considered long after the first reveal.
Epping began with smaller interventions and has grown into a deeply layered family home. Across the kitchen, scullery, wine cellar, sports bar, cinema, powder room, laundry, office, alfresco spaces and now the private Stage 3 areas, each room has been designed as part of a bigger story.
The home is highly detailed, but never designed for design’s sake. Every element serves a clear purpose.
There is a discipline behind making a home of this scale feel effortless. Entertaining spaces need to work when full, while still feeling comfortable on an ordinary weeknight. Storage needs to disappear. Lighting needs to create atmosphere, not simply brighten a room. Materials need to feel warm, refined and enduring, while still standing up to the reality of family life.
Throughout the episode, Darren shares how the home was conceived as a sequence of experiences. The kitchen operates as the working heart of the home, supported by concealed utility and scullery zones. Living spaces create connection while allowing different generations and activities to coexist. Private areas shift the pace completely, becoming quieter spaces for restoration and retreat.
It is a home that reveals itself slowly.
The episode also looks beyond the interiors, with the team from Energy Matters exploring the home’s significant energy infrastructure. Epping features what has been described as the Southern Hemisphere’s largest Anker battery installation, using the Anker SOLIX system.
For a home of this scale, energy performance is not an afterthought. Solar and battery storage form part of a broader approach to more resilient, future-focused living — supporting a highly considered family home while helping it work smarter behind the scenes.
The best homes do not force a choice between beauty, performance and practicality. They bring all three together.
We are proud to share Epping with Open Homes Australia, Energy Matters and Anker SOLIX — and grateful to the clients who trusted us to keep evolving the design as the home grew with them.
Watch the Epping episode of Open Homes Australia this Saturday.
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