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Create-A-Space mini
$249.00
One time

Create-A-Space Mini is a focused introduction to smart home design, helping you take the first crucial steps toward creating a home that truly fits your life, land, and budget. In this mini course, you’ll work through the foundational stages of the design process — defining your brief, understanding what you can realistically afford, and learning how to choose the right site for your future home.

✓ PDF Workbook
✓ Step-by-step guided video lessons
✓ Awhina (personalised AI design assistant)
✓ Budget Calculator

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What You’ll Learn

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Discover the real benefits of living with less — and designing with intention. This module explores how smaller homes create more freedom, lower costs, and smarter use of space. You’ll see how thoughtful design can make compact living feel comfortable, beautiful, and perfectly aligned with the way you want to live.

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Get clear on what you truly need — and why. This module helps you turn ideas into a focused design brief that reflects your lifestyle, budget, and values. You’ll learn how to balance wants versus needs, set realistic priorities, and create a clear foundation for confident design decisions.

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Learn how to make your site work for you, not against you. This module covers how sun, slope, wind, and views influence your design — helping you position your home for natural light, warmth, privacy, and year-round comfort. You’ll understand how the right orientation can save money, energy, and frustration later on.

Meet Your Instructor

Course Creator & Director
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Lesley England is an architectural designer with over a decade of experience turning dream homes into reality. After years of helping clients design beautiful, bespoke houses, she saw too many people held back by rising costs and unrealistic expectations. Now, through her Create-A-Space course and the RotoSpace Collective, Lesley focuses on empowering everyday New Zealanders to design smarter, smaller, and more affordable homes — without sacrificing comfort or style. Her mission is to make good design accessible to everyone, showing that a well-thought-out home isn’t about size or luxury — it’s about living with intention, freedom, and heart.