Here at Terrace [AU], that means helping people to green small spaces, and create personal happy places. To fully live life . Outdoor living using eco-friendly practices creates happier people, a healthier planet, and tangible property uplift. It’s such a small thing, but the statistics prove this.

1. 15%+ increase in your home’s m2/ft2 footprint:  Research from global architectural planning sources, shows that homes that use their outdoor areas effectively, expand their livable floor space around 15%, which in turn maximises their mortgage & rental ROI (return on investment).
2. 17%+ property value increase:  Properties with well-designed outdoor rooms experience a minimum of 17% increase in value and offer a 35% ROI (return on investment) for every dollar spent. Zillow.com Data &  Domain.com Research
3. Green space boosts happiness more then GDP:  2021 study: Urban green space was found to be a stronger predictor of happiness than GDP, once countries reached a certain level of development. See: EPJ’s Data Science on  Urban Green Space & Happiness and World Happiness Report.

Creating your first outdoor space? | Leading a workplace eco-friendly shift? | Managing building transformations? | We meet you exactly where you are.

Outdoor living & a focus on positive lifestyle shouldn’t be an afterthought. It’s an opportunity to extend your space, enable sustainability, enhance wellbeing, uplift property values, and build community. But transforming pavement into paradise requires navigating the complex territory of design principles, local climate, spatial planning, material selection, plant knowledge, user needs, and of course building requirements. It’s hard to know where to start.

After thousands of hours of testing, failing, tweaking, pivoting, and re-testing, we created the Design +AI Journey Arc™, a beautifully structured methodology that guides you from first ideas through the muddy middle and onto the final flourish.

Design + AI LABs

Each LAB contains a range of tools, technologies, blueprints, guides, roadmaps, and more. We encourage you to explore, experiment, and design happy. Whether you’re:

• Creating a space as a DIY Designer
• A Property Manager looking for ready-to deploy Resident Collections
• Implementing Sustainability Stories (Micro-initiatives) for Employees
• A Professional Designer working with clients

Greening Small Spaces + Creating Happier Places

We’re a little different and proud of it. We’re focussed on your outcomes. What will you FEEL in the space? What do you need to achieve this?

• We offer fresh thinking on lifestyle, green space, sustainability, & micro initiatives.
• We provide expert templates and tools to help consider every detail. 
• We showcase real work from award-winning Australian designers with every image credited so you can explore their portfolio.
• And we’ve integrated AI as your (optional) creative assistant, not to replace human originality, but to amplify it.

This combination of Australian lifestyle ethos, design intelligence, practical frameworks, eco-friendly initiatives, and smart technology means you can create professional-quality results without the professional-level budget.

The Terrace AU Story was never about us. It’s about your journey. Your way!