Combining home and income can involve a couple of different scenarios.
Home Business / Work from Home:
Firstly ensure that both the covenants (if in a subdivision) and the council will allow your particular business to operate from your home. If your home business complies, the same principles for planning room placement, separate entrances and noise mitigation should be applied.
Case Study: Home and income that includes the following:
This was achieved within a 200sqm footprint on a 334sqm section. Below are some pictures of the outside of the home, the office and the meeting space. This is an excellent example of what can be achieved on a small site.
Case Study: Home and income that includes the following:
Create an in-home salon in the lower level of the family home based on Ocean Beach Road, Mt Maunganui. The salon must be accessible from off the road with a separate entrance. The salon needed to have a separate entrance with secondary internal access. After the consent was granted, the project had to be completed within 6 weeks.... after pics below.
Guest accommodation:
Having a space that you can rent out on Airbnb or alternatively house a long term tenant is an option that many are now considering when building their home or undertaking an alteration. The first step is to ascertain what you are wanting by considering the following;